About the Reviewers

Jared Huffman is a lifelong gamer and extreme data geek. After completing his bachelor's degree in computer science, he started his career in his hometown of Melbourne, Florida. While there, he honed his software development skills, including work on a credit card-processing system and a variety of web tools. He finished it off with a fun contract working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center before migrating to his current home in the Seattle area.

Diving head first into the world of data, he took up a role working on Microsoft's internal finance tools and reporting systems. Feeling that he could no longer resist his love for video games, he joined the Xbox division to build their Business. To date, Jared has helped ship and support 12 games and presented at several events on various machine learning and other data topics. His latest endeavor has him applying both his software skills and analytics expertise in leading the data science efforts for Minecraft. There he gets to apply machine learning techniques, trying out fun and impactful projects, such as customer segmentation models, churn prediction, and recommendation systems.

Outside of work, Jared spends much of his free time playing board games and video games with his family and friends, as well as dabbling in occasional game development.

First I'd like to give a big thanks to John for giving me the honor of reviewing this book; it's been a great learning experience. Second, thanks to my amazing wife, Kalen, for allowing me to repeatedly skip chores to work on it. Last, and certainly not least, I'd like to thank God for providing me the opportunities to work on things I love and still make a living doing it. Being able to wake up every day and create games that bring joy to millions of players is truly a pleasure.

Ashwin Pajankar is a software professional and IoT enthusiast with more than 8 years of experience in software design, development, testing, and automation.

He graduated from IIIT Hyderabad, earning an M. Tech in computer science and engineering. He holds multiple professional certifications from Oracle, IBM, Teradata, and ISTQB in development, databases, and testing. He has won several awards in college through outreach initiatives, at work for technical achievements, and community service through corporate social responsibility programs.

He was introduced to Raspberry Pi while organizing a hackathon at his workplace, and has been hooked on Pi ever since. He writes plenty of code in C, Bash, Python, and Java on his cluster of Pis. He's already authored two books on Raspberry Pi and reviewed three other titles related to Python for Packt Publishing.

His LinkedIn Profile is https://in.linkedin.com/in/ashwinpajankar.

I would like to thank my wife, Kavitha, for the motivation.