Abu S. Kamruzzaman has been a web programmer and database analyst since 2004 and teaching various IT courses as an adjunct lecturer since 2001. He has an interest in a wide range of technologies, such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, NoSQL databases, Java, cloud computing, mobile app development, and so on. He has vast experience in application development and database implementation for the education sector. He currently works full-time for CUNY (the City University of New York) Central as a PeopleSoft development specialist since November, 2014. His current project is working with the business intelligence team to build a data warehouse for CUNY using OBIEE. Before joining CUNY Central, he worked in various CUNY campuses since 2001. Aside from his full-time job, he has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on J2EE, DBMS, data warehousing, object-oriented programming, web design, and web programming in different CUNY campuses since 2001. He is currently teaching for the CIS department under the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College/CUNY. He enjoys learning new technologies and solving complex computing problems and spends his leisure time doing community work. He has a great interest in open source technologies and teaching students through his lectures. He is also interested in writing books soon but is waiting on choosing the suitable topics of his best interest. He has a master's degree from Brooklyn College (CUNY) and achieved a bachelor's degree in computer science from Binghamton University (SUNY). His web address is http://faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/akamruzzaman/.
Abu has worked on the book, Mastering Spring MVC 4, by Packt Publishing.
Ahmad Nassri is an advocate of all things open source and a developer tooling enthusiast.
Currently, he is leading the talented engineering team at Mashape, powering API-driven software development for engineering and IT teams across the world. In his spare time, Ahmad blogs on technology and leadership, mentors early stage start-ups, and builds open source projects used by thousands of developers worldwide.
He also speaks on open source, leadership, and the hacker culture in technology conferences. You can check out his speaking schedule and read his latest posts on his blog at https://www.ahmadnassri.com/.