About the Authors

Ahmed Bakir is the founder and lead developer at devAtelier LLC (www.devatelier.com), a San Diego-based mobile development firm. After spending several years writing software for embedded systems, he started developing apps out of coffee shops for fun. Once the word got out, he began taking on clients and quit his day job to work on apps full time. Since then, he has been involved in the development of over 20 mobile projects, and has seen several enter the top 25 of the App Store, including one that reached number one in its category (Video Scheduler). His clients have ranged from scrappy startups to large corporations, such as Citrix. In his downtime, Ahmed can be found on the road, exploring new places, speaking about mobile development, and still working out of coffee shops.

Gheorghe Chesler is a senior software engineer with expertise in Quality Assurance, System Automation, Performance Engineering, and e-Publishing. He works at ServiceNow as a Senior Performance Engineer, and is a principal technical consultant for Plural Publishing, a medical-field publishing company. His preferred programming language is Perl (so much so that he identifies with the Perl mascot, hence the camel picture), but also worked on many Java and Objective-C projects.

Manny de la Torriente has over 30 years of software development experience, having worked on every level from engineering to management. Manny started out in software by doing programming for sound engineering and then moved into game engine development and low-level video playback systems. Manny is known to switch between iOS and Android depending on how exciting the project is.