Adrian Salceanuhas been a professional software developer for over 15 years. For the last 10, he's been leading agile teams in developing real-time, data-intensive web and mobile products. Adrian is a public speaker and an enthusiastic contributor to the open source community, focusing on high-performance web development. He's the organizer of the Barcelona Julia Users group and the creator of Genie, a high-performance, highly productive Julia web framework. Adrian has a Master's degree in computing and a postgraduate degree in advanced computer science.
To my family, for their understanding and support during the long weekends I spent writing. To Antony and Richard, for creating a work environment that encourages personal and professional growth. It is a privilege to be a part of the OLBG team. To the Julia community, for their amazing work and their continuous efforts in growing Julia, and for being so helpful and welcoming. To the creators of the open source software used in the book; your work is priceless. To the Julia contributors, for their support and patience in helping me throughout my journey.
David Buchaca Prats is a mathematician who focuses his passion toward building more efficient artificial neural networks. The difficulty of implementing efficient models led him to love the Julia programming language, which allows scientists to write concise code for doing so quickly.
Zhuo Qingliang (also known as KDr2 online) is presently working at paodingai.com, a start-up fintech company in China that is dedicated to improving the financial industry by using artificial intelligence technologies. He has over 10 years of experience in Linux, C, C++, Java, Python, and Perl development. He is interested in programming, consulting work, and contributing to the open source community (including, of course, the Julia community).
He maintains a personal website at http://kdr2.com; you can find out more about him there.
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