Praseed Pai has been working in the software industry for the last 25 years, starting his career as a MS-DOS systems programmer using ANSI C. He has been actively involved in developing large-scale, cross-platform, native code-based systems using C++ on Windows, GNU Linux, and macOS X. He has experience in COM+ and CORBA programming using C++. In the last decade, he has worked with Java- and .NET-based systems.

He is the primary implementer of the SLANG4.net compilation system, which has been ported to C++ with an LLVM backend. He coauthored .NET Design Patterns, by Packt Publishing.

Peter Abraham has been a performance fanatic and a C/C++ programming language enthusiast right from his college days, where he excelled in Microsoft Windows programming and GNU Linux programming. He garnered experience in working with CUDA, image processing, and computer graphics programs by virtue of working with companies such as Quest Global, Siemens, and Tektronics.

Peter has been eagerly following the C++ standard and RxCpp libraries as part of his profession. He has worked with cross-platform GUI toolkits such as Qt, WxWidgets, and FOX toolkit.

Sumant Tambe is a software engineer, researcher, open source contributor, blogger, speaker, author, and gamer. He is experienced in using Modern C++, Kafka, data distribution service, reactive programming, and stream processing to solve new problems in big data and industrial IoT.

He has authored C++ Truths blog and the More C++ Idioms wikibook. He shares his learnings on his blog, and at local code camps, meetups, and conferences. He has been a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award in development technologies for 5 years. He has a PhD in computer science from Vanderbilt University.

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