Abhishek R. Kotian
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About the Authors
Sanjeev Jaiswal is a computer graduate with 5 years of industrial experience. He basically uses Perl and GNU/Linux for his day-to-day work. He also teaches Drupal and WordPress CMS to bloggers. He first developed an interest in web application penetration testing in 2013; he is currently working on projects involving penetration testing, source code review, and log analysis, where he provides the analysis and defense of various kinds of web-based attacks.
Sanjeev loves teaching technical concepts to engineering students and IT professionals and has been teaching for the last 6 years in his leisure time. He founded Alien Coders (http://www.aliencoders.org), based on the learning through sharing principle for computer science students and IT professionals in 2010, which became a huge hit in India among engineering students.
He usually uploads technical videos on YouTube under the Alien Coders tag. He has got a huge fan base at his site because of his simple but effective way of teaching and his philanthropic nature toward students. You can follow him on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/aliencoders and on Twitter at @aliencoders
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He wrote Instant PageSpeed Optimization , Packt Publishing , and looks forward to authoring or reviewing more books for Packt Publishing and other publishers.
Ratan Kumar is a computer science and engineering graduate with more than a year of start-up experience. He received the Technical Excellence Memento from the Association of Computer Engineering Students (ACES), Cochin University of Science and Technology.
When he was a product engineer at Profoundis, he worked on an international project based on services using Django. He was also part of the Microsoft accelerator program with Profoundis that was responsible for building the product iTestify, which was built using Django.
He then moved to Tracxn!, an organization that works on building platforms that can help venture capitalists, investment banks, and corporate developers find new and interesting start-ups in their investment sector. As a software developer and engineer, he majorly contributed to the development of the core product platform of Tracxn using Python for the initial scraping work, such as building cron scrappers to crawl millions of pages daily, cleaning them up, and analyzing them.
He also built the company's first product, which is called Tracxn Extensiona Chrome extension using AngularJS. He contributed to the Tracxn product platform using Grails as the framework. He also worked on Bootstrapa frontend frameworkto design the home page of tracxn.com.
About the Reviewers
Michael Giuliano has been programming software in various languages and technologies for the past 15 years. Having used Python in the fields of web services, machine learning, and big data since 2008, he finds it to be one of the most versatile, elegant, and productive programming languages.
Michael is currently based in London, where he leads the Python development team at Zoopla Property Group Plc.
Danijel Pani is a JavaScript ninja and a passionate Django enthusiast. He is currently working at Bitstamp as a senior developer. He also works on various projects, including online games, and experiments with new approaches and techniques in search of better ways to achieve the desired results. You can find him at http://www.panco.si/.
Martin Pernica is currently a lead programmer and a cofounder of a new game studio called Soulbound Games in Czech Republic. He started programming very young on old PCs and, after that, he started working mainly as a web developer on PHP, Python, and Ruby for various companies. After some years of web development, Martin switched to the game development industry and started his own game studio. He also started teaching at local universities on mobile, web, and game development. He always tries to look under the hood of problems and challenges and then solves and optimizes them, which is still his passion.
Vikash Verma is a young and enthusiastic software professional who has had a wide exposure to open source technologies. His experience involves both client-side programming and server-side programming through Python, Django, and many other demanding technologies.
He has been a vital part of interesting projects from start-ups to leading IT companies as an individual leader. He has experience in the fields of data analytics, web crawling, web scraping, web application development, automation, ETL, and many more technical tracks.
I would like to thank my family and peers who always inspired me to be a go-getter. Not to mention the support and motivation I get from my soul mate, Smriti, who ensures that my work and life are in perfect balance with each other.
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