Mastering Arduino

Jon Hoffman has over 30 years of experience in the information technology field. Over the years, he has worked in system administration, network administration and security, application development, and architecture. He currently serves as an Enterprise Software Manager for Syntech Systems.
Outside of his professional life, Jon has a wide range of personal interests that keep him both physically and mentally engaged. He enjoys spending quality time with his two children and his fiancee. He also stays active through running, hiking, paddleboarding, yoga, and working out. In addition, Jon has a deep passion for reading and continues to nurture his love for coding. Ejike is a developer with a serious love of sharing his skills and knowledge with his fellow developers and beginners in the industry. He has spent his few years as a lead instructor in computer programming and has enjoyed the most part of his life doing live trainings with over hundreds of students. He derives joy in building the next generation of software and hardware developers who do amazing things in the industry today. He led the team of developers who participated in Forbes' "Under30 Change the World Challenge", judged by panel of professionals at Wharton school of the university of Pennsylvania in 2015.
His love for computer programming in his early stage in life got him into Java, C, C#, C++, Python, MikroC, Arduino, and lots of other programming languages and embedded system designs. Pratik Desai, PhD, is the Principal Scientist and cofounder of a connected devices start-up, Imbue Labs, where he develops scalable and interoperable architecture for wearable devices and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms during the day. At night, he leads the development of an open source IoT initiative, the Semantic Repository of Things. Pratik has 8 years of research and design experience in various layers of the IoT and its predecessor technologies such as wireless sensor networks, RFID, and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. His domains of expertise are the IoT, Semantic Web, machine learning, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Pratik completed his MS and PhD from Wright State University, Ohio, and collaborated with the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) during his doctoral research. His doctoral research was focused on developing situation awareness frameworks for IoT devices, enabling semantic web-based reasoning and handling the uncertainty associated with sensor data. In his personal life, Pratik is an avid DIY junkie and likes to get hands-on experience on upcoming technologies. He extensively expresses his views on technology and shares interesting developments on Twitter (@chheplo).