About the Authors

Mithun Pattankar, who hails from Kalaburgi and lives in Bangalore, India, works with the leading MNC as a consultant. He has been developing .NET-based applications for over 12 years now. He has an industry-wide experience in building Desktop Apps (WPF), Web Apps (ASP.NET and client-side frameworks), and Hybrid Mobile apps (Ionic). He is involved in all aspects of application development, and mentors his junior team members. He has been actively working on building ASP.NET Web APIs for different frontends and conducts technical training as well.

Mithun believes in eating sattvic food for healthy living and loves spending time doing socio-spiritual activities. He occasionally blogs on mithunvp.com and can be reached on Twitter at @mithunpattankar.

Malendra Hurbuns is from South Africa, and lives in New Zealand, working for an Australian Company as a senior software developer. He has been developing in .NET for over 15 years. He mentors other developers and is involved in all aspects of development. He loves writing simple code that has a high quality. He is one of the pioneers in web API in his role, and he has implemented many live systems using ASP.NET Web APIs. TDD is also a topic close to his heart. He has worked in the accounting, banking, and simulation industries, which has provided him with a wealth of experience. He is a keen cyclist and swimmer.