About the Author
Loiane Groner, Brazilian-born (and raised), lives in São Paulo and began her IT
career developing Java web applications. While at university, she demonstrated
great interest in IT. She worked as an assistant teacher for two and a half years,
teaching algorithms, data structures, and computing theory. She represented her
university at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest – Brazilian
Finals (South America Regionals) and also worked as a Student Delegate of SBC
(Brazilian Computing Society) for two years. She won a merit award in her senior
year for being one of the top three students with better GPAs in the Computer
Science department and also graduated with honors.
After three years of Java development, she got a job opportunity at IBM Brazil, where
she developed Java and Ext JS applications for an American company, for two years.
At IBM, she became the Team Leader and was responsible for training new hires
in Java, XML, and Ext JS technologies. Nowadays, she works as a Senior Software
Engineer at Citibank Brazilian Technology Solutions Center, where she develops
overseas solutions. She also works as an independent Ext JS consultant and coach.
Loiane is passionate about Ext JS and Java, and she is the CampinasJUG (Campinas
Java Users Group) Leader and ESJUG (Espirito Santo Java Users Group) coordinator;
both are Brazilian JUGs.
Loiane also contributes to the software development community through her blogs,
http://loianegroner.com (English) and http://loiane.com (Portuguese-
BR), where she writes about careers in IT, Ext JS, Spring Framework, and general
development notes.
I would like to thank my parents for giving me education, guidance,
and advice, through all these years, and helping me to be a better
human being and professional. A very special "thank-you" to my
lovely husband, for being patient and supportive and giving me
encouragement. Also, thanks to my friends for all the support.
