Loiane Groner has over 9 years of experience in software development. While at university, she demonstrated great interest in IT. Loiane worked as a teaching assistant for 2.5 years and taught algorithms, data structures, and computing theory. She represented her university at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest—Brazilian Finals (South America Regionals) and also worked as a student delegate of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) for 2 years. Loiane won a merit award in her senior year for being one of the top three students with the best GPAs in the computer science department and also graduated with honors.

Loiane has worked at multinational companies, such as IBM. Her areas of expertise include Java SE and Java EE and also Sencha technologies (Ext JS and Sencha Touch). Nowadays, Loiane works as a software development manager at a financial institution, where she manages overseas solutions. She also works as an independent Sencha consultant and coach.

Loiane is also the author of Ext JS 4 First Look, Mastering Ext JS, Sencha Architect App Development, and Learning JavaScript Data Structure and Algorithms, all published by Packt Publishing.

She is passionate about Sencha and Java; she is a leader of Campinas Java Users Group (CampinasJUG) and a coordinator of Espirito Santo Java Users Group (ESJUG), both Brazilian JUGs.

Loiane also contributes to the software development community through her blogs, http://loianegroner.com (English) and http://loiane.com (Portuguese-BR), where she writes about IT careers, Ext JS, Sencha Touch, PhoneGap, Spring Framework, and general development notes, as well as publishing screencasts.

If you want to keep in touch, you can find Loiane on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/loianegroner) and Twitter (@loiane).

Loiane's profile is already available on the Packt Publishing website, https://www.packtpub.com/books/info/authors/loiane-groner.