About the authors
Karthikeyan NG is the Head of Engineering and Technology at the Indian lifestyle & fashion retail brand. He served as a software engineer at Symantec Corporation and has worked with 2 US-based startups as an early employee and has built various products. He has 9+ years of experience in various scalable products using Web, Mobile, ML, AR, and VR technologies. He is an aspiring entrepreneur and technology evangelist. His interests lie in exploring new technologies and innovative ideas to resolve a problem. He has also bagged prizes from more than 15 hackathons, is a TEDx speaker and a speaker at technology conferences and meetups as well as guest lecturer at a Bengaluru University. When not at work, he is found trekking.
Arun Padmanabhan is a machine learning consultant with over 8 years of experience building end-to-end machine learning solutions and applications. Presently working with a couple of start-ups in the financial and insurance sectors, he specializes in automating manual workflows using AI and creating machine vision and NLP applications. Previously, he led the data science team of a Singapore-based product start-up in the restaurant domain. Over the years, he has also built standalone and integrated machine learning solutions in the manufacturing, shipping, and e-commerce domains. His interests lie in research, development, and applications of AI and deep architectures.
Matt R. Cole is a seasoned developer and author with 30 years' experience in Microsoft Windows, C, C++, C# and .Net. Matt is the owner of Evolved AI Solutions, a premier provider of advanced Machine Learning and Bio-AI technologies. Matt is a leading authority on Microservices, and developed the first enterprise grade Microservice framework written completely in C# and .Net. Matt also developed the first Bio Artificial Intelligence framework which completely integrates mirror and canonical neurons. He continues to push the limits of Machine Learning, Biological or Swarm Artificial Intelligence, and Genetic computing.