About the Author

Azat Mardan has more than a dozen years of experience in web, mobile, and software engineering. With a Bachelor’s degree in informatics and a Master of Science degree in information systems technology, Azat possesses deep academic knowledge as well as extensive practical experience.

Currently, Azat works as a team lead/senior software engineer at DocuSign, where his team rebuilds 50 million user products (DocuSign web app) using the technical cutting-edge stack of Node.js, Express.js, Backbone.js, CoffeeScript, Jade, Stylus, and Redis.

Previously Azat worked as a senior software engineer at Storify.com (acquired in 2013), National Center for Biotechnology Information, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Lockheed Martin, and others. He taught programming classes at Marakana (acquired in 2013), pariSOMA, General Assembly San Francisco, and Hack Reactor to much acclaim. In his spare time, Azat writes about technology on his blog webapplog.com. He is also the author of four other books on JavaScript and Node.js, including Amazon’s #1 Best Seller in the Client Server category: Rapid Prototyping with JS: Agile JavaScript Development.

Azat is the creator of open-source Node.js projects: ExpressWorks, mongoui, HackHall, and NodeFramework.com, as well as a contributor to Express, OAuth, jade-browser, and other Node Package Manager modules.