About the Author

Helder Vasconcelos is a Portuguese Software Engineer based on Dublin, Ireland, with more than 10 years of experience designing and developing real-time/multithreaded Java and C++ applications for the telecommunications and aviation industries. Apart from his day-to-day job, he occupies his spare time building native Android applications for Bearstouch Software and other third-party companies.

He graduated with a degree in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro in January 2006. During his career, he has worked as a Software Engineer for companies such as PT Inovação (Portugal), Airtel ATN (Dublin, Ireland) and Axway (Dublin, Ireland). You can find Hélder on LinkedIn at (https://ie.linkedin.com/in/heldervasc/en) or on his website at (http://hvasconcelos.github.io).

I would like to sincerely thanks all technical reviewers, but especially Gavin. I really appreciate your invaluable feedback and commit that shaped the quality of the book. A special thanks to my awesome wife Tania for encourage me when the lack of motivation was killing my productivity. It would not have been possible without your precious support. Thanks also to my parents and family for their awesome effort in my education. Additionally, I would like to thank my friends, colleagues, clients, and teachers for helping me to shape and improve my skills and perspectives during my career.