Ashwin Pajankar is a software professional and IoT enthusiast with more than 5 years' 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 he's 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 one book on Raspberry Pi and reviewed three other titles related to Python for Packt Publishing.
I would like to thank my wife, Kavitha, for motivating me to write this book and share my knowledge with others. I would like to thank my coauthor, Arush Kakkar, for taking over the project after the first few chapters. I also thank Merwyn D'Souza from Packt Publishing for providing me with the opportunity, guidance, and required support in writing this book. Last but not least, I would like to thank all the reviewers who helped me make the book better by providing their precious feedback.
Arush Kakkar is a computer vision and deep learning researcher and an undergraduate at Delhi Technological University. His primary focus is on autonomous robotics, which includes drones and self-driving cars, and he has been involved in building such systems in different capacities, such as navigation, localization, path planning. He has also leveraged state-of-the art computer vision and deep learning technologies for them. He is the electrical systems head of the Solar Car team of his university, Solaris DTU.
He is currently working on his own driverless car company, CruiseX, which uses deep learning to drive more smoothly and with fewer errors.
I would like to thank my parents for supporting me in writing this book. I would like to thank Ashwin for collaborating while writing this book, and I would also like to thank Merwyn from Packt Publishing for coordinating the collaboration. I am thankful to all the reviewers for helping me improve the book and expanding my knowledge.