He has completed his master's in computer applications from Mumbai
University. He is skilled with more than four years of experience
in software development and operations field. He is an expert with
the LAMP stack, JavaScript, and cloud infrastructure. Before
starting as a software developer, he worked extensively with server
hardware and has more than two years of experience as system
administrator.
Currently, he is working as a software scientist in a Mumbai-based
start-up called Sweet Couch. His responsibilities include
developing backend services, setting up real-time communication
server, and automating various daily tasks. With immense interest
in machine learning, he likes to spend his spare time exploring
this subject. His first book was Instant Building Multi-Page Forms
with Yii How-To published by Packt Publishing He has more than 10
years of experience as a software developer and system
administrator. He graduated with a diploma degree in bioinformatics
and is currently working at the German Cancer Research center in
Heidelberg where he has authored and co-authored several scientific
publications in the field of Bioinformatics. Along with developing
web applications and biological databases for his department and
scientists all over the world, he administers a division-wide
Linux-based data center and has set up two high-performance CentOS
clusters for the analysis of high-throughput microscope and genome
sequencing data.
He loves writing code, riding his mountain bike in the Black Forest
of Germany and has been an absolute Linux and open source
enthusiast for many years. He has contributed to several
open-source projects in the past and also worked as a reviewer on
the book CentOS High Performance, Packt Publishing. He maintains an
IT tech blog at www.oliverpelz.de. He is a web developer, systems
engineer, and applications programmer.
For more than 20 years, he has been working behind the scenes to
support companies, organizations, and individuals around the world
to realize their digital ambitions. With an honors degree in both
english and history and as a respected practitioner of many
computer languages, Jonathan enjoys writing code, publishing
articles, building computers, playing video games, and getting 'out
and about' in the big outdoors. He has been using CentOS since its
inception, and over the years, it has not only earned his trust,
but it has also become his first choice for a server solution.
CentOS is a first class community-based enterprise class operating
system. It is a pleasure to work with and because of this, Jonathan
has written this book so that his knowledge and experience can be
passed on to others. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT
industry in various positions and supporting several
environments.
In 2005, he started his own consulting company, Critter BVBA, in
the hope of offering open source solutions to his customers, who
are mainly enterprises.
In 2010, William started supporting Red Hat products full time with
the Federal Police, Belgium.Since then, he has moved on to support
Red Hat products at Proximus and now Euroclear.
William is a strong open source supporter and contributes where he
can. He has a couple of projects running at GitHub
(https://github.com/bushvin). During the course of writing this
book, William recertified himself as a Red Hat Certified Engineer,
hoping to one daybecome a Red Hat Certified Architect.
When he's not tapping away at the keyboard of his laptop, William
likes to play around with his two young children, listen to rock
music (Foo Fighters, AC/DC, and Queens of the Stone Age are some of
his favorites), and devising complicated and intricate plots for
the stories that he runs at his biweekly roleplaying sessions with
his friends.
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