About the reviewers

Roberto Gambuzzi was born in 1978 and started coding at the age of 8 on a Commodore 16. His first PC was an 8086 with 1 MB of RAM and a 20 MB hard drive. He coded in BASIC, assembly, Pascal, C, C++, COBOL, Delphi, Java, PHP, Python, Go, JavaScript, and other lesser-known languages. He worked with Amazon in Dublin, then moved to the world of startups. He likes simple, effective code.

He was the reviewer of Magento Best Practices (https://leanpub.com/magebp).

Thanks to Luciano Mammino and Mario Casciaro for giving me the chance to review their beautiful book.

Minwoo Jung is a Node.js core collaborator and works for NodeSource as a full-time software engineer. He specializes in web technologies with more than 10 years of experience and used to publish the weekly updates on the official Node.js website. When he isn't glued to a computer screen, he spends time hiking with his friends.

Kyriakos Markakis has worked as a software engineer and application architect. He acquired experience in developing web applications by working on a wide range of projects in e-government, online voting, digital education, media monitoring, digital advertising, travel, and banking industries for almost 10 years.

During that time, he had the opportunity to work with some leading technologies, such as Java, asynchronous messaging, AJAX, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, and others. He has dedicatedly worked on Node.js for the past 3 years.

He contributes his knowledge by mentoring new technologies to beginners through e-learning programs and by reviewing books.

Romina Miraballes is a software engineer from Uruguay, currently living in Ireland. She started working as a firmware developer programming in C for a company that creates medical devices. After that, she began working as a full-stack developer, working on several projects for a wide range of startups, creating cloud solutions in AWS with Node.js. Currently, she works at Vectra AI, which is a cybersecurity company and mostly works with Node.js applications in AWS and Azure.

I would like to thank, first of all, Luciano for giving me the opportunity to be part of this project as a reviewer. Secondly, to my family and my boyfriend Nicolás who are always supporting me.

Peter Poliwoda is a senior software engineer and a technical lead at the IBM Technology Campus in Ireland. He has over a decade of software development experience in a wide range of industry sectors from banking and financial systems to healthcare and research. Peter graduated from University College Cork in business information systems. He has a keen interest in artificial intelligence, cognitive solutions, as well as IoT. He is an advocate of solving problems using technology. Peter is an avid contributor to the tech community through open source and by speaking at conferences, seminars, and workshops across Europe. He enjoys giving back to the educational system by working together with schools and universities.

To Larissa—you inspire me to do great things.

Liran Tal is a developer advocate at Snyk and a member of the Node.js Security working group. Among his security activities, Liran has also authored Essential Node.js Security and coauthored O'Reilly's Serverless Security book, and is a core contributor to the OWASP NodeGoat project. He is passionate about the open source movement, web technologies, and testing and software philosophy.

Tomas Della Vedova is an enthusiastic software engineer, who spends most of his time programming in JavaScript and Node.js. He works for Elastic as a senior software engineer in the clients team, focusing on the JavaScript client. Tomas is also the author of the Fastify web framework and part of its ecosystem. He constantly advances the enrichment of his knowledge and the exploration of new technologies; moreover, he is a strong open source supporter and he will always be passionate about technology, design, and music.