Programming Kotlin
Familiarize yourself with all of Kotlin’s features with this in-
depth guide
Stephen Samuel
Stefan Bocutiu
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Programming Kotlin
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About the Authors
Stephen Samuel is an accomplished developer with over 17 years of experience. He has
worked with Java throughout his career, and in the past 5 years has focused on Scala. He
has a passion for concurrency and Big Data technologies. Having spent the last few years in
investment banking, he is currently working with Kotlin on a major Big Data ingestment
project. Stephen is also active in the open source community, being the author of several
high profile Scala and Kotlin libraries.
I would like to thank my wife for being patient with all the days and nights spent on the
computer, developing. I would also like to thank Stefan for kindly agreeing to co-author
this book with me.
Stefan Bocutiu is a Big Data consultant with over 13 years of experience in software
development. He enjoys coding in Scala, C#, and has a passion for stream processing
technologies. With the team at DataMountaineer--a consultancy company offering delivery
of solutions for streaming/ fast data platforms - he focuses on providing scalable, unified,
real-time data pipelines allowing reactive decision making, analytics, and Hadoop
integration.
Stefan is passionate about motorsports, and while his racing skills are not good enough to
allow him to compete, he tries to attend as many MotoGP races as possible. When he is not
coding, he can be found at the climbing wall or at the gym. Occasionally, hiking and
scrambling trips are on his calendar, and during the winter season, skiing trips are a must
for him.
