About the Author
Valerio De Sanctis is a skilled IT professional with more than 12 years of experience in lead
programming, web-based development, and project management using ASP.NET, PHP,
and Java. He previously held senior positions at a range of financial and insurance
companies, most recently serving as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operating Officer
at a leading after-sales and IT service provider for many top-tier life and non-life insurance
groups.
During the course of his career Valerio De Sanctis helped many private organizations to
implement and maintain .NET based solutions, working side by side with many IT industry
experts and leading several frontend, backend and UX development teams. He designed the
architecture and actively oversaw the development of a wide number of corporate-level
web application projects for high-profile clients, customers and partners including London
Stock Exchange Group, Zurich Insurance Group, Allianz, Generali, Harmonie Mutuelle,
Honda Motor, FCA Group, Luxottica, ANSA, Saipem, ENI, Enel, Terna, Banzai Media,
Virgilio.it, Repubblica.it, and Corriere.it.
He is an active member of the Stack Exchange Network, providing advices and tips for
.NET, JavaScript, HTML5 and Web related topics on the StackOverflow, ServerFault, and
SuperUser communities. Most of his projects and code samples are available under open-
source licenses on GitHub, BitBucket, NPM, CocoaPods, JQuery Plugin Registry, and
WordPress Plugin Repository.
He also runs an IT-oriented, web-focused blog at www.ryadel.com featuring news, reviews,
code samples and guides to help developers and enthusiasts worldwide.
I would like to thank those who supported me in writing this book: my beloved and
beautiful wife for her awesome encouragement and invaluable support; my children Viola
and Daniele; my parents and my sister for always being there in times of need; my IT
colleagues and partners in Ryadel, Teleborsa and Assirecre Group for their enduring
friendship. A special thanks to Vincent Maverick Durano for helping me to work through
software and UI issues to determine if they were bugs or user errors, and to all Packt
Publishing folks who worked hard to bring this book to life.
