Jayant Varma is an author of books on iOS development (Swift, Objective-C, and Xcode); Bash & Lua was his first book. He has been the technical editor for several Packt books. An academician at JCU, he mentored students for the Apple Swift Course at RMIT. He was the IT manager for BMW & Nissan, and as a development manager for an ASX-listed company, he contracted and built several mobile apps for small-to-large organizations in Australia. He has conducted workshops and spoken at meetups and events. He started OZApps and provides consulting and development services.