About the Authors

Dr. Raoul-Gabriel Urma is the CEO and founder of Cambridge Spark, a leader in transformational data science and AI training, career development, and progression. He is author of several programming books, including the best seller Modern Java in Action (Manning). Raoul-Gabriel holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University as well as an MEng in Computer Science from Imperial College London and graduated with first-class honors, having won several prizes for technical innovation. His research interests lie in the area of programming languages, compilers, source code analysis, machine learning, and education. He was nominated an Oracle Java Champion in 2017. He is also an experienced international speaker, having delivered talks covering Java, Python, Artificial Intelligence, and Business. Raoul has advised and worked for several organizations on large-scale software engineering projects including at Google, Oracle, eBay, and Goldman Sachs.

Dr. Richard Warburton is the cofounder of Opsian.com and maintainer of the Artio FIX Engine. He’s worked as a developer in different areas including developer tools, HFT, and network protocols. He has written the book Java 8 Lambdas for O’Reilly and helps developers learn via http://iteratrlearning.com and http://www.pluralsight.com/author/richard-warburton. Richard is an experienced conference speaker, having spoken at dozens of events and sat on conference committees for some of the biggest conferences in Europe and the USA. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Warwick.