Tom Aratyn is a software developer and the founder of the Boulevard Platform. He has a decade of experience developing web apps for companies of all sizes (from boutiques to large start-ups, such as Snapchat). He loves solving problems using his server-side and client-side development skills and helping other developers grow.
I want to thank the many people who made this book possible. Thanks mom! Thanks to my friends who helped keep me grounded through it all. Particular thanks to my editor, Gauri Pradhan, who helped me so much over the many months. Thank you to the reviewers Andrei Kulakov and Dan Noble for helping improve the book. My thanks also to the many other folks on the Packt team, including Dhanya Baburaj, Rutuja Vaze, Noyonika Das, and everyone else!
Andrei Kulakov lives in New York and has worked in the software industry for 10 years, including many projects in genetic research, linguistics, hardware systems, healthcare and machine learning. In his spare time, Andrei can often be found practicing hand-balancing in one of the city parks.
Dan Noble is an accomplished full-stack web developer, data engineer, and author with more than 10 years of development experience. He enjoys working with a variety of programming languages and software frameworks, particularly Python, Elasticsearch, and JavaScript.
Dan currently works on geospatial web applications and data processing systems. He has been a user and an advocate of Django and Elasticsearch since 2009. He is the author of the book Monitoring Elasticsearch and a technical reviewer for The Elasticsearch Cookbook, Second Edition, by Alberto Paro, by Packt Publishing.
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