About the Reviewers

Eric Pimpler is the founder and owner of GeoSpatial Training Services (geospatialtraining.com) and has over 20 years of experience in implementing and teaching GIS solutions using Esri, Google Earth/Maps, and open source technology. Currently, he focuses on ArcGIS scripting with Python and the development of custom ArcGIS Server web and mobile applications using JavaScript. He is the author of Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook.

Eric has a bachelor's degree in Geography from Texas A&M University and a master's degree in Applied Geography with a concentration in GIS from Texas State University.

Prashant Verma started his IT carrier in 2011 as a Java developer at Ericsson working in
the telecoms domain. After a couple of years of Java EE experience, he moved into the big data domain, and has worked on almost all the popular big data technologies, such as Hadoop,
Spark, Flume, Mongo, and Cassandra. He has also played with Scala. Currently, he works with QA Infotech as lead data engineer, working on solving e-Learning problems using analytics and machine learning.
Prashant has also worked on Apache Spark for Java Developers as a technical reviewer.