About the Reviewers

Brett Bloomquist holds a BS in mathematics and an MS in computer science, specializing in computer-aided geometric design. He has 26 years of work experience in the software industry with a focus on geometric modeling algorithms and computer graphics. More recently, Brett has been applying his mathematics and visualization background as a principal data scientist.

Khaled Tannir is a visionary solution architect with more than 20 years of technical experience focusing on big data technologies, data science machine learning, and data mining since 2010.

He is widely recognized as an expert in these fields and has a bachelor's degree in electronics and a master's degree in system information architectures. He is working on completing his PhD.

Khaled has more than 15 certifications (R programming, big data, and many more) and is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and an avid technologist.

He has worked for many companies in France (and recently in Canada), leading the development and implementation of software solutions and giving technical presentations.

He is the author of the books RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide and Optimizing Hadoop MapReduce, both by Packt Publishing (which were translated in Simplified Chinese) and a technical reviewer on the books, Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB, MongoDB High Availability, and Learning Predictive Analytics with R, by Packt Publishing.

He enjoys taking landscape and night photos, traveling, playing video games, creating funny electronics gadgets using Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and .Net Gadgeteer, and of course spending time with his wife and family.

You can connect with him on LinkedIn or reach him at <contact@khaledtannir.net>.