Daniel Durante is an avid coffee drinker/roaster, motorcyclist, archer, welder, and carpenter whenever he isn't programming. From the age of 12, he has been involved with web and embedded programming with PHP, Node.js, Golang, Rust, and C.

He has worked on text-based browser games that have reached over 1,000,000 active players, created bin-packing software for CNC machines, embedded programming with cortex-m and PIC circuits, high-frequency trading applications, and helped contribute to one of the oldest ORMs of Node.js (SequelizeJS).

He has also reviewed other books – PostgresSQL Developer's Guide, PostgreSQL 9.6 High Performance, Rust Programming By Example, and Rust High Performance – for Packt.

Gaurav Aroraa has completed his M.Phil in computer science. He is an MVP, a lifetime member of the Computer Society of India (CSI), an advisory member of IndiaMentor, and is certified as a scrum trainer/coach, XEN for ITIL-F, and APMG for PRINCE-F and PRINCE-P. Gaurav is an open source developer, and the founder of Ovatic Systems Private Limited. Recently, he was awarded the title "Icon of the year – excellence in mentoring technology startups" for the year 2018-19 by Radio City, A Jagran Initiative, for his extraordinary work during his 20-year career in the industry in the field of technology mentoring. You can tweet Gaurav on his twitter handle: @g_arora.