Contributors

About the authors

Praseed Pai has been working with Software Industry for the last 25 years, starting his career as a MS-DOS systems programmer using ANSI C. He has been actively involved in developing large scale cross-platform system using C++ on Windows, GNU Linux, and macOS. His areas of interest include Engineering Software Development, Enterprise Software Development, and Native Code Programming. He is the co-author of a book .NET Design Patterns, by Packt Publishing.

I would like to acknowledge the contributions of Peter Abraham, Sarath Soman, Vaisakh Babu, Shine Xavier, Aneesh Revi, Benoy Vijayan, Joseph Abraham, and so on, while working on the content of the book.

I would like to thank my parents, Mrs. Mohana and Late K.J. Thrivikrama Pai, who taught me the value of continuous learning. I whole heartedly thank my wife Sandhya L, for giving encouragement, while I was writing this book. Last, but not the least, Sidharth and Karthik Pai, my two sons, for co-operating with me, while writing this book.

Finally, I thank Sandeep Mishra and Rohit Kumar Singh from Packt Publishing. I also thank Sumant Tambe, who reviewed the content of this book.