Rishabh Sharma - Learning Chef

Rishabh Sharma is currently working as a chief technology officer (CTO) at JOB Forward, Singapore (http://job-fw.sg/). JOB Forward was the first social recruiting platform in Singapore. Prior to working for JOB Forward, he worked for Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, as a solution delivery analyst. He was involved in the research projects of cloud computing, proof of concepts (PoC), infrastructure automation , big data solutions, and various giant customer projects related to cloud infrastructure and application migration.

He completed his master's thesis from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, in cloud computing and has in-depth knowledge of distributed systems and cloud computing research issues of the industry. In a short span of time, he has worked on various technologies and tools, such as Java/J2EE, SAP(ABAP), AWS, OpenStack, DevOps, big data, and Hadoop.

He has authored four technical textbooks until now. He recently launched Cloud Computing: fundamentals, industry approach and trends , Wiley India publication , which is a comprehensive book on cloud computing and covers academic syllabi of all Indian universities. Before this, he has authored Advance Computing Technology for Gujarat Technical University (GTU) and Software Quality Engineering and Mobile Computing for Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU). He has also authored many research papers in international journals and IEEE on a variety of issues related to cloud computing.

He is also an open source enthusiast and writes for the Open Source For You (OSFY) magazine. His other interests are mimicry, fun, horoscope reading, traveling, meditation, spirituality, and yoga. You can get in touch with him at <>.

I would like to express my special gratitude to my spiritual guru for his guidance and blessings. I am very grateful to my family for their support and encouragement during this project. I would like to give my special gratitude to Dr. Gaurav Bajpai and Nitin Goel for being the reviewers of my book and giving their precious feedback.

I am very thankful to Packt Publishing for providing me this opportunity to present this book and for their valuable support and guidance during this endeavor. Your views, comments, and suggestions are welcome.

Mitesh Soni is a technical lead who has 7.5 years of experience in the IT industry. He is a SCJP, SCWCD, and VCP. While he has interest in technology, his real passion is to play with kids and with his camera and capture photographs at Indroda Park. He lives in the capital of Mahatma Gandhi's home state. He loves to spend time alone and loves walking at Punit van.

I would like to dedicate this book to my professional and philosophical guide-cum-friend Vinay Kher, for believing in me when I lost myself; Simba, for inspiring me that I can do it; and Yohan Wadia, for being a great competitor.

I want to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. I would like to thank mummy-papa, Jigisha-Nitesh, dada-dadi, Priyanka, and all family members who have encouraged me to take up the challenge of writing this book.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it, so huge thanks to Nalini, Aakanksha, Hemant-Priyanka, Mihir, Anupama, Ashish, Jamba, Nirali, Munal, Nitesh, Mayur, Chintan, Navrang, Dharmesh, Rohan, Jyoti, Vishwajit, Sree, and Rohini.

Dr. Gaurav Bajpai received his BTech degree in computer science and engineering from Rohilkhand University, India, in 2000; MTech degree in software engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India, in 2005; and PhD in computer engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India, in 2006. He was an assistant professor in the departments of computer science and business administration at the Academy of Medical Sciences and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan, from April 2006 to March 2007. Since March 2007, he has worked as a senior lecturer in the department of computer engineering and information technology in the faculty of engineering at Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), which is now referred to as College of Science and Technology - University of Rwanda.

His research interests include software engineering, network routing, network hardware security, and biomedical engineering. He has published over 60 international journals and conference papers. He has convened, reviewed, been an editor, attended and presented in several workshops and seminars during his 14-year career from 2000. He has been on several international projects with income generation to University, as well.

He is a member of several distinguished organizations, such as ISOC and IEEE, Institution of Engineers. He is also a lifetime member of ISTE, CSI, and so on.

Currently, he is the head of the computer and software engineering at college of science and technology, University of Rwanda, Rwanda.

Nitin Goel (March 1987) received his MTech degree in computer engineering in 2011 and BTech degree in computer engineering in 2008 with honors from Kuruskhetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India. He has 2 years and 6 months of teaching experience and 1 year 2 months of IT experience as a software engineer for J2EE/J2ME(RIM). He has approximately 2 years of experience in the Intellectual Property Research (IPR) industry to date.

He has published 18 research publications and journals and conducted conferences internationally as well as nationally. His areas of interest are mobile ad-hoc network (MANETs) and sensor networks, application/desktop programming, Java, C, C++, and ns-2.