Mitchell Wong Ho was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he completed his national diploma in electrical engineering. Mitchell's software career development started on embedded systems and then moved to Microsoft desktop/server applications. Mitchell has been programming in Java since 2000 on J2ME, JEE, desktop, and Android applications, and has more recently been advocating Kotlin for Android. Mitchell made a significant contribution to the development of the Kotlin Programming Cookbook, which was published recently by Packt.