Florent Vilmart - HANDS-ON DESIGN PATTERNS WITH SWIFT: master swift best practices to build modular applications ... for mobile, desktop, and server platforms

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Florent Vilmart, M.Sc., is a full stack engineer in Montreal. Born in France, he moved to Montreal shortly before graduating, seeking exciting opportunities in the francophone metropole of North America. He honed his skills with Objective-C before jumping to Swift when it was released. He is a polyglot, and you can find his open source work on the parse community GitHub project, where he is one of the core maintainers. He has spoken at conferences, including the GitHub CodeConf in 2016 and, most recently, the 2017 Swift Summit in San Francisco. Currently, he is working full-time with BusBud in Montreal, using mainly TypeScript alongside Swift.

Giordano Scalzo is a developer with 20 years of programming experience, since the days of the ZX-Spectrum. He has worked in C++, Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, and in a multitude of other languages. After years of backend development, Giordano has developed extensively for iOS, releasing more than 20 apps which he wrote for clients, enterprise applications, or for his own benefit. Currently, he is a contractor in London where, through his company, Effective Code Ltd., he delivers code for iOS. For Packt, he has written two books on Swift, Swift by Example and Swift 2 by Example, and has reviewed a number of Swift books and videos, including Learn Swift by Building Applications, Introduction to Server-Side Swift, and Swift Functional Programming.

Sergio De Simone has been working as a software engineer for over twenty years across a range of different projects and companies, including work environments such as Siemens, HP, and small start-ups. For the last few years, his focus has been on developing mobile platforms and related technologies. He is currently working for BigML, Inc., where he leads iOS and OS X development. Additionally, he likes writing about technology, as well as programming tools, techniques, and languages, with a special focus on Swift evolution, for InfoQ.

Tibor Bdecs is an enthusiastic software developer with more than a decade of experience in the IT industry. Previously, Tibor was the technology leader at one of the biggest mobile development-focused companies in Hungary. He is a self-taught programmer with a true passion for Swift. He has the ability to work with different languages and technologies, and has extensive experience in product management. Nowadays, he is a freelance developer focusing predominantly on web, mobile, and server-side Swift projects. Tibor has a personal blog where he regularly writes about the Swift programming language.