About the Reviewers

Ken Pratt has over 10 years of professional experience in software development, and knows more programming languages than you can imagine. He has shipped multiple products powered by RabbitMQ and enjoys discovering new ways to structure systems.

Ken Taylor has worked in software development and technology for over 15 years. During the course of his career, he has worked as a systems analyst on multiple software projects in several industries as well as U.S. government agencies. He has successfully used RabbitMQ for messaging on multiple projects. He previously reviewed RabbitMQ Cookbook, written by Sigismondo Boschi and Gabriele Santomaggio, Packt Publishing. He is a member and speaker of the 757 Ruby users group and the Hampton Roads .NET Users Group (HRNUG). He holds an A.S. degree in Computer Science from the Paul D. Camp Community College and was awarded a U.S. patent for a real estate financial software product. He is currently working at Outsite Networks Inc. in Norfolk, Virginia. He lives in Suffolk, Virginia with his lovely wife, Lucia, and his two sons, Kaide and Wyatt.

Ignacio Colomina Torregrosa is a technical engineer in Telecommunications and has a master's degree in Free Software. He works as a PHP/Symfony developer and he has experience using RabbitMQ as a tool to optimize and improve the performance of web applications that deal with a large amount of traffic.

Héctor Veiga is a software engineer specializing in real-time data integration. Recently, he has focused his work on different cloud technologies such as AWS, Heroku, OpenShift, and so on to develop scalable, resilient, and high-performing applications to handle high-volume real-time data in diverse protocols and formats. Additionally, he has a strong foundation in messaging systems knowledge such as RabbitMQ and AMQP. Also, he has a master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a master's degree in Information Technology and Management from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

He currently works at HERE as a part of Global Data Integrations and is actively developing scalable applications to consume data from several different sources. HERE heavily utilizes RabbitMQ to address their messaging requirements. In the past, he worked at Xaptum Technologies, a company dedicated to M2M technologies. He has also reviewed RabbitMQ Cookbook written by Sigismondo Boschi and Gabriele Santomaggio, Packt Publishing.