About the Author

Pradeeban Kathiravelu is an open source evangelist. He is a Ph.D. researcher at INESC-ID Lisboa/Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He is a Fellow of Erasmus Mundus Joint Degree in Distributed Computing (EMJD-DC), researching a software-defined approach to quality of service and data quality in multi-tenant clouds.

Pradeeban holds a master of science degree, Erasmus Mundus European Master in Distributed Computing (EMDC), from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He also holds a first class bachelor of science in engineering (Hons) degree, majoring in computer science and engineering, from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. His research interests include Software-Defined Networking (SDN), distributed systems, cloud computing, web services, big data in biomedical informatics, Network Functions Virtualizations (NFV), and data mining. He is very interested in free and open source software development and has been an active participant in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program since 2009, as a student and as a mentor.

Pradeeban has published several conference papers and co-authored a few book chapters. He has also worked on OpenDaylight Cookbook and Learning OpenDaylight as a technical reviewer. Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition (2017) is his first book as an author, and he is quite excited about it.

I would like to thank my readers for the interest in the book. Please feel free to contact me if you need any assistance in the topics or the recipes, beyond what we have discussed in the book. I would like to thank the entire editorial team at Packt, including Abhishek Jadhav, Rahul Nair, and Mohd Riyan Khan. I would like to extend my thanks to the Linux Foundation for their open source projects on softwarization of networks and systems. I would like to thank my friends and colleagues who helped me in various ways. I would like to thank Prof. Luis Veiga (INESC-ID Lisboa), my MSc and Ph.D. advisor, for sharing his wisdom and encouragement throughout my stay in Instituto Superior Tecnico. I would like to thank him for being my mentor since 2012. I would also like to thank Prof. Ashish Sharma (Emory University, Atlanta) for his guidance and motivation.

My special thanks go to my loving wife, Juejing Gu. This book would not be a reality without her continuous support and creative suggestions. Her tireless efforts helped me always be on time without missing the deadlines.
I would like to thank my mom, Selvathie Kathiravelu, for her support.

Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker is a software architect based in London, UK, where he has been shaping various Linux and open source software solutions, mainly on cloud computing platforms, for commercial companies, educational institutions, and multinational consultancies. Over the past 10 years, he has been leading a number of Python software development and cloud infrastructure automation projects. In 2009, he started using Python, where he was responsible for shepherding a fleet of miniature E-puck robots at the University of South Wales, Newport, UK. Later, he honed his Python skills, and he was invited to work on the Google Summer of Code (2009/2010) programs for contributing to the BlueZ and Tahoe-LAFS open source projects. He is the author of Python Network Programming Cookbook and Learning Python Network Programming both by Packt Publishing.

He received his Ph.D. in multi-robot systems from the University of South Wales. He is currently working at University College London. He takes an active interest in cloud computing, software security, intelligent systems, and child-centric education. He lives in East London with his wife, Shahinur, and daughter, Ayesha.

All praises and thanks to Allah, the God who is the Merciful and the Beneficent. I would not be able to finish this book without the help of God.I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the publication of this book, including the publisher, technical reviewers, editors, my family and friends for their sacrifice of time, encouraging words, and smiles, especially my wife Shahinur Rijuani for her love and support in my work. I also thank the readers who have patiently been waiting for this book and who have given me lots of valuable feedback.

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