About the reviewers

Marco Ippolito is an Italian software engineer working as Director of Software Development for Imagining IT. Marco completed his postgraduate in Software Engineering in Oxford and has worked for large corporations such as Intel, HP, Google, Dell, and Oracle (in the acquired MySQL team), as well as for start-ups such as @platformsh and for large production users of MySQL such as @bookingcom (Twitter). He can be reached at marco.ippolito@imaginingit.com and has experience working in teams speaking Italian, English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, and  French, remotely or onsite.

Kedar Mohaniraj Vaijanapurkar is a MySQL database consultant with over a decade of experience, ranging from programming to database administration. He aims to spread happiness with the MySQL database systems he works on. Apart from working with MySQL and related open source technologies, he also explores cloud, automation, and NoSQL. He is a 5-year Pythian laureate living with his awesome family in the cultured city of Vadodara, India. You can reach him at kedar@nitty-witty.com.