Chetankumar Akarte is the CEO of Renuka Technologies Private Limited, Nagpur, located in central India. He is an engineer (electronics) from Nagpur University with more than 10 years of experience in the design, development, and deployment of web-based, Windows-based, and mobile-based applications with expertise in PHP, .NET, JavaScript, Java, Android, and more.
Chetankumar likes to contribute to newsgroups and forums. He has written articles for Electronics For You, DeveloperIQ, and Flash and Flex Developer's Magazine. In his spare time, he likes to maintain his technical blog (http://www.tipsntracks.com) to get in touch with the developer community. He has been the technical reviewer for four books published by Packt Publishing. He has released more than 96 applications on the Android market! One of his applications, an English to Hindi Dictionary, is like a pocket dictionary for students, which has more than a hundred thousand downloads. You can find it at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sachi.hindi.dictionary.
Chetankumar lives in Nagpur with wife, Shraddha, and his two children, Kaiwalya and Hrutvij. You can visit his websites, http://www.sahityachintan.com and http://www.tipsntracks.com, or get in touch with him at <[email protected]>.
Gergo Bogdan is a software engineer with over eight years of experience in the IT industry. During this time, he worked at small companies as well as multinational organizations. He has vast expertise in multiple technologies, starting from .NET and Python to JavaScript and Java. He loves to create technical articles and tutorials for fellow developers, and he is a passionate blogger (http://grelution.com). He is the author of the Web API Development with Flask video course, Packt Publishing.
Rahul Devaskar is a software engineer with experience of building real-time event-driven applications, context-aware applications, and web applications. His expertise includes web apps development, mobile apps development, API server development, and real-time analytics. He has built apps using AngularJS, Node.js, MongoDB, and Ionic.
David Ellenwood is a frontend developer and WordPress expert with more than 15 years of experience on the Web. As the owner and solo developer at DPE Websmithing and Design, LLC, he enjoys providing consulting services to midsize customers looking to update or extend their existing websites beyond traditional brochureware. He lives with his beautiful wife and two amazing boys at the westernmost tip of Lake Superior in Superior, Wisconsin.
Philippe Renevier Gonin has been an assistant professor at the University Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS), France, since 2005. He teaches web technologies, software engineering (architecture and development), and HCI (Human Computer Interaction). On the research front, Philippe works on connections between user-centered design (for example, user and tasks models) and software engineering (for example, component architecture and UI development).
Robert Mion takes every effort to design experiences that continually delight, empower, and inspire people, often by repeatedly triggering that magical moment when your brain makes your mouth go A ha! or Of course!. This passion was ignited when watching Pixar's Toy Story at the age of eight. The fire has only grown since then.
Robert continues to use his amassed knowledge of storytelling, color, typography, layout, design, human psychology, and web technologies as an excuse to have fun every day by crafting experiences designed to go beyond solving problems—to emotionally connect with users and to help them become more awesome.
Robert and his wife, Laura, currently live in Fort Mill, SC—minutes south of the Queen City—with their two pugs (one, a pug-boxer mix).
Natalie Olivo has worked with web-based technologies for almost a decade and began her career in coding when the majority of HTML pages were tabular and inflexible. She remembers the excitement and satisfaction in the creative process of building her first prototype for a messaging application while she was employed at one of the first popular social networks in the age before Facebook. Natalie's wide ranging experience include key development roles in companies such as Godiva, Barnes and Noble, and The Daily Beast. She has spent the last year building out the mobile web experience at The Daily Beast, and enjoys the challenges of building applications that are performant for mobile web. She is currently a senior frontend engineer at Business Insider.
Mateus Ortiz is the creator of some cool open source projects such as Web Components Weekly (webcomponentsweekly.me), the first weekly World of Web Components, and web components the right way, and other projects. He is only 17 years old and spends his days helping and creating new open source projects. Mateus lives in Brazil where he makes several talks on the frontend. You can find him on Twitter at twitter.com/mteusortiz.