Anand Deshpande - Hands-On Artificial Intelligence on Google Cloud Platform: Build intelligent applications powered by TensorFlow, Cloud AutoML, BigQuery, and Dialogflow

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Anand Deshpande has over 19 years' experience with IT services and product development. He is currently working as Vice President of Advanced Analytics and Product Development at VSquare Systems Pvt. Ltd. (VSquare). He has developed a special interest in data science and an algorithmic approach to data management and analytics and co-authored a book entitled Artificial Intelligence for Big Data in May 2018.

Manish Kumar works as Director of Technology and Architecture at VSquare. He has over 13 years' experience in providing technology solutions to complex business problems. He has worked extensively on web application development, IoT, big data, cloud technologies, and blockchain. Aside from this book, Manish has co-authored three books (Mastering Hadoop 3, Artificial Intelligence for Big Data, and Building Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka).

Vikram Chaudhari works as Director of Data and Advanced Analytics at VSquare. He has over 10 years' IT experience. He is a certified AWS and Google Cloud Architect and has completed multiple implementations of data pipelines with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. With implementation experience on multiple data pipelines across platforms, Vikram is instrumental in creating reusable components and accelerators that reduce costs and implementation time.

Arvind Ravulavaru is a full stack architect and consultant with over 11 years' experience in software development and 2 years' experience in hardware and product development. For the last 5 years, he has been working extensively on JavaScript, both on the server side and the client side and, for the last few years, in IoT, AI, ML, and big data.

Alexey Bokov is an experienced Azure architect and has been a Microsoft technical evangelist since 2011. He works closely with Microsoft's top-tier customers all around the world to develop applications based on the Azure cloud platform. Building cloud-based applications in challenging scenarios is his passion, along with helping the development community to upskill and learn new things through hands-on exercises and hacking. He's a long-time contributor to, and co-author and reviewer of, many Azure books, and, from time to time, speaks at Kubernetes events.

Judy T Raj is a Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect with extensive experience across the three leading cloud platformsAWS, Azure, and the GCP. She has co-authored a book on Google Cloud Platform with Packt Publishing. She has also worked with a wide range of technologies, such as data science, deep learning, computer vision, blockchain, big data, and IoT and has published many relevant academic papers. Currently employed as a Data and AI Engineer, she is a passionate coder, a machine learning practitioner, and a computer vision enthusiast.