Maxwell Dayvson Da Silva, a self-taught programmer, is the director
of technology at The New York Times.
Born in Recife, Brazil, he is a video specialist and is most
interested in bringing technology to a global audience. His work
has ranged from developing and delivering highly scalable products
to innovating and implementing large-scale video solutions. Prior
to joining the Times, he worked for Globo, Brazil's leading media
network, and Terra, a global digital media company.
Additionally, he has spoken at conferences such as Campus Party,
FISL, SET Broadcast and Cable, Streaming Media East, and Streaming
Media West. Maxwell has also devoted time to speaking at several
Brazilian universities, including UFGRS, IFRS, UDESC, and
FEEVALE-RS.
He is a contributor to and creator of some open source projects.
You can find them at https://github.com/dayvson. Outside of his
professional work, Maxwell regularly combines his passion for art
and science to create games and interactive art installations. His
son, Arthur, inspires him to seek opportunities to bring science
into the lives of young people, both in New York and abroad.
Although Redis Essentials is Maxwell's first book, he has done
technical reviewing for two others, Extending Bootstrap and
Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms. You can contact
him on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/dayvson. Hugo Lopes
Tavares is a software developer from Brazil who currently works as
a platform engineer at Yipit, a technology company focused on data
aggregation and analysis. Prior to his work in the United States,
Hugo worked on live streaming video development for Globo.com, the
Internet branch of Grupo Globo, which is the largest media
conglomerate in Latin America.
Having been involved in open source software, he has made a
significant impact in this field. He was a main contributor to pip
(the Python package installer), wrote improvements to CPython and
the Python standard library, coauthored Splinter (a web-testing
tool), and contributed to many well-known projects. Some of his
contributions can be found at https://github.com/hltbra.
Additionally, Hugo worked at NSI (Information Systems Research
Group), carrying out research and development on agile methods and
software quality for the Brazilian government. Within his research,
he created some testing tools, the most famous of which are
Should-DSL and PyCukes, which are mentioned in Python Testing
Cookbook, Packt Publishing (Should-DSL has its own section in
it).
When Hugo is not doing anything related to technology, he is
involved in strength training as an amateur powerlifter.
You can contact him on LinkedIn at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hltbra.
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