About the Author

Uday R. Sawant has completed his master's in computer applications from Mumbai University. He is skilled with more than four years of experience in software development and operations field.

He is an expert with the LAMP stack, JavaScript, and cloud infrastructure. Before starting as a software developer, he worked extensively with server hardware and has more than two years of experience as system administrator.

Currently, he is working as a software scientist in a Mumbai-based start-up called Sweet Couch. His responsibilities include developing backend services, setting up real-time communication server, and automating various daily tasks. With immense interest in machine learning, he likes to spend his spare time exploring this subject. His first book was Instant Building Multi-Page Forms with Yii How-To published by Packt Publishing.

I would like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me another opportunity to work with them and write my second book. A big thanks goes to my parents for their support throughout the time of writing this book. Also, I would like to thank my team at Sweet Couch as without their support, it would have not been possible to write a full length book. A special thanks to Mr. Mitul Thakkar who always encouraged me to keep on writing. Finally, thanks to Preeti Singh, an editor for this book, for keeping things on track.