Carlos Estebes is the founder of Ehxioz (http://ehxioz.com/), a Los Angeles-based software development startup that specializes in developing modern web applications and utilizing the latest web development technologies and methodologies. He has over 10 years of web development experience and holds a BSc in Computer Science from California State University, Los Angeles.
Carlos previously collaborated with Packt Publishing as a technical reviewer in the third edition of Learning jQuery.
Prashanth Hirematada is the CTO and co-founder of Kwestr and has over 15 years of experience in building e-commerce, gaming platforms, social games, and apps. Previously, he co-founded (2007) "In Game Ad Interactive", invested by WPP. He's also the founder of Gamantra in 2006, a game technology company. Before that he was a Chief Architect at Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. [NASDAQ: SNDA]. He had joined Shanda in 2004 through Shanda's acquisition of Zona, Inc., a game technology company in Silicon Valley, California, USA. Prashanth started his career in the valley working for various technology start-up companies involved in NeXT technologies.
Inventor of the spin buffer (Dr. Dobbs's Journal, 2007), he also is a published author of Flash 10 Multiplayer Game Essentials (by Packt Publishing, UK), and a technical reviewer of game-related books.
Do The Thuan is a passionate self-taught Senior Flash Developer who has been in love with programing since the age of MS-DOS and Turbo Pascal. He inadvertently discovered the beauty and power of Flash and started to learn 2D Animation and Actionscript, then got his first professional job in 2007. During his career, he has built numerous interactive websites, media players, galleries, and rich internet applications, and started several open source projects on http://github.com/thienhaflash. He also did some Unity3D works, mostly mini games for iOS devices and unity editor extensions.
With a special interest in optimization and a sound mathematics background, he is always looking for better ways to improve the performance and memory usage of Flash. He occasionally puts experiments and tutorials on his personal blog at http://thienhaflash.wordpress.com.