Arvind Ravulavaru - Learning Ionic

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First published: July 2015
Second edition: April 2017

Production reference: 1260417

ISBN 978-1-78646-605-1

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Arvind Ravulavaru is a full stack consultant having over 8 years of experience in software development. For the last 4 years, Arvind has been working extensively on JavaScript, both on the server- and the client-side. Before that, Arvind worked on big data analytics, cloud provisioning, and orchestration. Arvind has good exposure on various databases and has also developed and architected applications built using Node.js.

For the past 2 years, Arvind has been working on his own startup, named The IoT Suitcase http://theiotsuitcase.com. With his experience in software development and his passion for building products, Arvind has architected and developed an end-to-end platform for rapidly building IoT products and solutions. The IoT Suitcase provides all the pieces needed to build an IoT solution, right from hardware to a mobile app with analytics and IFTTT as add-ons.

Apart from that, Arvind provides training, empowering companies with the latest and greatest technology in the market. He also conducts startup workshops, where he teaches rapid prototyping with today's amazing tooling stack and how to take ideas to the market in a very short time.

Arvind always looks for ways to contribute to the open source community in making this world a better place for developers. As an architect/consultant, he always tries to power amazing business ideas with awesome technology solutions (he is language agnostic), moving the human race up the technology evolution chain.

You can reach Arvind on his blog at http://thejackalofjavascript.com.
Arvind has written a book named Learning Ionic, which talks about building Mobile Hybrid applications using Ionic Framework v1. He has also signed the contract for his next book, named Advanced IoT with JavaScript, where he plans to show how to build IoT solutions using JavaScript.

First off, I would like to thank all the people who have purchased my Learning Ionic book. The support from you guys was tremendous; I really appreciate it. I would like to thank the Packt team for doing an amazing job in releasing the books on time.

Since the book was released, I have been busy building The IoT Suitcase. Thanks to Udaykanth Rapeti for spending a good year with me bringing this to the position it is now. I would like to take a moment to thank Surya Narayana Murthy for being part of this start up. He has given me tremendous support and invaluable advice in taking things to the next level. I would like to give special thanks to Murthy Prakki for everything he has done for the team and me.

Thanks to the awesome team at The IoT Suitcase, who would kept asking me about the status of the book frequently, and have been eagerly waiting for its release.

Last but not least, thanks to the entire team of Packt for supporting me. I sincerely thank my content editors Divij Kotian (and team), Sachin Karnani, and Merwyn Dsouza. Thanks to Reshma Raman and the production team for taking the book to press.

Special thanks to my family for bearing me every day and going through all my shenanigans without complaining. Thank you.

Mike Hartington is a developer for the Ionic Framework with years of experience in mobile development with hybrid technologies. Within Ionic, Mike works with the framework team and the community members, helping to ensure that the code being shipped is well documented, tested, and easy to understand. Along with working on Ionic for his day to day, Mike is also a Google Developer Expert and an Egghead.io author, helping people learn new technologies with both.

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