Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA.
Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world.
He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel® Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine.
Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
While writing this book, I was fortunate enough to work with an excellent team at Packt Publishing Ltd, whose contributions vastly improved its presentation. Reshma Raman allowed me to provide her with ideas for developing the second edition of this book and I jumped at the exciting prospect of teaching how to use many popular web frameworks for developing RESTful web services with modern Python 3.6 and 3.7. Rohit Singh helped me realize my vision for this new edition of the book and provided many sensible suggestions regarding the text, the format, and the flow. I would like to thank my technical reviewers and proofreaders for their thorough reviews and insightful comments. I was able to incorporate some of the knowledge and wisdom they have gained during their many years in the software development industry. This book was possible because they provided valuable feedback. I usually start writing notes about ideas for a book when I spend time at software development conferences and events. I wrote the initial idea for the first edition of this book in San Francisco, California, at Intel Developer Forum 2015. One year later, at Intel Developer Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to discuss the book I was completing with a number of software engineers and incorporate their suggestions in the final drafts of the first edition. I started writing notes for the second edition in San Jose, California, at Sensors Expo 2018. The entire process of writing a book requires a huge number of lonely hours. I wouldn't be able to write an entire book without dedicating some time to play soccer against my sons, Kevin and Brandon, and my nephew, Nicolas. Of course, I never won a match. However, I did score a few goals.
Norbert Máté is a web developer who started his career back in 2008. His first programming language as a professional web developer was PHP, before moving on to JavaScript/Node.js and Python/Django/Django Rest Framework. He is passionate about software architecture, design patterns, and clean code. Norbert has reviewed other Django books, including Django RESTful Web Services.
Sanjeev Jaiswal is a Computer Graduate from CUSAT with 9 years of industrial experience. He uses Perl, Python, AWS, and GNU/Linux for his day-to-day activities. He is currently working on projects involving penetration testing, source code review, and security design and implementations in AWS and cloud security projects. He is currently learning about DevSecOps and security automation as well. Sanjeev loves teaching engineering students and IT professionals. He has been teaching in his leisure time for the last 8 years. He has written Instant PageSpeed Optimization and co-authored Learning Django Web Development for Packt Publishing.
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