About the Author

John M. Wargo is a product manager, software developer, writer, presenter, father, husband, and geek. He spent more than 30 years working as a professional software developer first as a hobbyist, then in enterprise software, and finally, for the last 15 years, in mobile development. He authored six books on mobile development, and was a long-time contributor to the open source Apache Cordova project.

By day, he’s a Principal Program Manager on the App + Cloud Experiences team at Microsoft.

He loves tinkering with IoT, building and writing about projects for Arduino, Particle Photon, Raspberry Pi, Tessel 2, and more. His latest project was a remote-controlled, flame-throwing pumpkin.

He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife Anna, 16-year-old twins, and two dogs.