Dan Toomey has been developing applications for over 20 years. He has worked in a variety of industries and companies of all sizes, in roles ranging from sole contributor to the VP/CTO level. For the last 10 years or so, he has been contracting with companies in the eastern Massachusetts area, under Dan Toomey Software Corp. Dan has also written a few books with Packt Publishing.
Nikhil Borkar holds the CQF designation and a PG degree in Quantitative Finance from the University of Mumbai. He works as an independent fintech and legal consultant. Prior to this, he was with Morgan Stanley Capital International as a Global RFP Project Manager. He has worked on Quantitative Finance and economic research projects using R, Python, and Excel VBA. He loves to approach problems in a multidisciplinary, holistic way. He is actively working on machine learning, AI, and deep learning projects.
Nikhil Akki started his career in IT support, and within a couple of years shifted to sales and marketing (after pursing MBA). Nikhil works at Deloitte in Mumbai as data science consultant. He has hands-on experience in building enterprise-grade - NLP, machine learning, and recommender system-based applications for his clients. He is often found taking up MOOCs and Kaggle problems. Prior to his current role, he taught Business Statistics at postgraduate level in an upcoming B-School in South Mumbai.
Juan Tomás Oliva Ramos is an environmental engineer from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, with a master's degree in administrative engineering and quality. He has over five years of experience in management and development of patents, technological innovation projects, and technological solutions through statistical control of processes. He has been a teacher of statistics, entrepreneurship, and technological development since 2011. He has developed prototypes via programming and automation technologies for improvement of operations, which have been registered for patents.
I want to thank God for giving me the wisdom and humility to review this book. I thank Rubén for inviting me to collaborate on this adventure. I want to thank my wife, Brenda, our two magic princesses (Maria Regina and Maria Renata) and Angel Tadeo), All of you are my strengths, happiness and my desire to look for the best for you.
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