About the authors

Gaurav Aroraa has an M.Phil in computer science. He is a Microsoft MVP, a lifetime member of Computer Society of India (CSI), an advisory member of IndiaMentor, certified as a scrum trainer/coach, XEN for ITIL-F, and APMG for PRINCE-F and PRINCE-P. Gaurav is an open source developer, a contributor to TechNet Wiki, and the founder of Ovatic Systems Private Limited. In 20+ years of his career, he has mentored thousands of students and industry professionals. You can tweet Gaurav on his Twitter handle @g_arora.

To my wife, Shuby Arora, and my angel (daughter), Aarchi Arora, who permitted me to steal time for this book from the time I was supposed to spend with them. Thanks to the entire Packt team, especially Ulhas, Vikas Tiwari, Anugraha Arunagiri, and Jash Bavishi, whose coordination and communication during the period was tremendous, and Denim Pinto, who introduced me for this book.

Tadit Dash is a senior software engineer and a hardcore tech community contributor. Due to his exceptional contribution to the technical community, Microsoft has awarded him with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional accolade since 2014. CodeProject has awarded him the CodeProject MVP accolade (the first from Odisha). For his constant mentorship, IndiaMentor featured him as a young mentor on their site. He was a featured speaker at DevTechDay Nepal and C# Corner Annual Conference, India. You can follow him on Twitter: @taditdash.

To Utkal Techies Forum members Suvendu Giri, Pravasini Sahoo, Suraj Sahoo, Surya Barik, Abhijit Pattnaik, Sourav Nanda, Jayant Rajwani, Ramesh Barik; my friends Manas Pritam, Deepak Mahapatra; my cousins Lipsa, Aurobin, Titiksha, Juthika, Amrit, Sanvi, Anushka, Swostik; my mentor Gaurav Arora; and the Packt team, Denim Pinto, Vikas Tiwari, Anugraha Arunagiri, and Jash Bavishi.