About the Reviewers

Cyrus Dasadia has worked as a Linux system administrator for over a decade for organizations such as AOL and InMobi. He is currently developing CitoEngine, an open source alert management service written entirely in Python.

Wei Di is a research scientist at eBay Research Labs, focusing on advanced computer vision, data mining, and information retrieval technologies for large-scale e-commerce applications. Her interest covers large-scale data mining, machine learning in merchandising, data quality for e-commerce, search relevance, and ranking and recommender systems. She also has years of research experience in pattern recognition and image processing. She received her PhD from Purdue University in 2011 with focuses on data mining and image classification.

Michael Galloy works as a research mathematician for Tech-X Corporation involved in scientific visualizations using IDL and Python. Before that, he worked for five years teaching all levels of IDL programming and consulting for Research Systems, Inc. (now Exelis Visual Information Solutions). He is the author of Modern IDL (modernidl.idldev.com) and is the creator/maintainer of several open source projects, including IDLdoc, mgunit, dist_tools, and cmdline_tools. He has written over 300 articles on IDL, scientific visualization, and high-performance computing for his website michaelgalloy.com. He is the principal investigator for NASA grants Remote Data Exploration with IDL for DAP bindings in IDL and A Rapid Model Fitting Tool Suite for accelerating curve fitting using modern graphic cards.

Ludovic Gasc is a senior software integration engineer at Eyepea, a highly renowned open source VoIP and unified communications company in Europe. Over the last five years, Ludovic has developed redundant distributed systems for Telecom based on Python (Twisted and now AsyncIO) and RabbitMQ.

He is also a contributor to several Python libraries. For more information and details on this, refer to https://github.com/GMLudo.

Kamran Husain has been in the computing industry for about 25 years, programming, designing, and developing software for the telecommunication and petroleum industry. He likes to dabble in cartooning in his free time.

Bruno Torres has worked for more than a decade, solving a variety of computing problems in a number of areas, touching a mix of client-side and server-side applications. Bruno has a degree in Computer Science from Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Having worked with data processing, telecommunications systems, as well as app development and media streaming, he developed many different skills starting from Java and C++ data processing systems, coming through solving scalability problems in the telecommunications industry and simplifying large applications customization using Lua, to developing apps for mobile devices and supporting systems.

Currently he works at a large media company, developing a number of solutions for delivering videos through the Internet for both desktop browsers and mobile devices.

He has a passion for learning different technologies and languages, meeting people, and loves the challenges of solving computing problems.