About the Reviewers

Vahagn Grigoryan is a senior web developer who is currently working at Learnship Networks. He has more than 10 years of full-stack application development experience, ranging from LAMP to frontend RESTful applications. He has worked for companies such as Lycos and Telegate, and is currently working at Learnship Networks. This is the first book that he has reviewed. He is married and has a 2-year-old son.

Max Kirchoff built his first website in 1996 on a little hosting service called GeoCities. He was not only immediately fascinated by the ability to distribute information with a graphical interface, but was also frustrated with how difficult it was to do interesting things with those early web browsers. As time passed and the technology evolved, Max built more and more websites, eventually working as a consultant for e-commerce early adopter businesses and then with advertising agencies, building campaigns that were on the bleeding edge of the Web. Along the way, he has worked on everything from leading the implementation of service-oriented architecture to UX prototyping and a thousand things in between. JavaScript was never his favorite language, but after working with a friend who "loved JS," he also came around and saw the strength and flexibility it provided for building beautiful and powerful web applications.

Max currently works for Google, where he works closely with advertisment platform partners to inform and enhance their web interfaces for better user experience.

Michael Smith is a developer and consultant with 15 years of experience. He has worked in a broad range of industries, including banking, finance, e-commerce, and oil. He is passionate about delivering high-quality software that actually meets and exceeds the client's needs. To this end, he is an advocate of putting the business front and center when developing software and exploring ways to encourage better communication between all stakeholders in a project.

He is involved in various open source projects, including a line of business application framework called Bifrost.