Valentin Bojinov studied computer science at the Technological School of Electronic Systems in Sofia, Bulgaria, a college within the Technical University of Sofia. He holds a B.Sc. in telecommunication and information engineering. Valentin is an expert in Java, SOAP, RESTful web services, and B2B integration. He specializes B2B Integration and Service Oriented Architecture and currently works as an Senior Integration Consultant in an UK consultancy company Estafet Limited.
I would like thank my my dad Emil, for encouraging me to study programming almost 20 years ago, and to mummy Anka, for always being there for me! Special thanks to all my mentors from school for showing me how to learn efficiently and to never give up. I also have to mention my extraordinary schoolmates I had the chance to study with!
Amit Kothari is a full-stack developer based in Melbourne, Australia. He has more than 12 years experience in designing and developing software systems and has worked on a wide range of projects across various domains including telecommunication, retails, banking and finance. Amit is also the co-author of the book - Chatbots for eCommerce: Learn how to build a virtual shopping assistant.
Erina has completed her master's and proactively working as an assistant professor in the computer science department of Thakur college, Mumbai. Her enthusiasm in web technologies inspires her to contribute for freelance JavaScript projects, especially on Node.js. Her research topics were SDN and IoT, which according to her create amazing solutions for various web technologies when they are used together. Nowadays, she focuses on blockchain and enjoys fiddling with its concepts in JavaScript.
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