About the Reviewer
Sworup Shakya has worked as a web developer for more than ten years. He started his career as a Flash ActionScript developer, before moving on to ASP.NET MVC, and finally to PHP. During his time as a developer, Sworup worked extensively with frameworks, be it ASP.NET MVC or AngularJS or Laravel. However, while he was working as an ActionScript developer, he had to create one, which gave him knowledge of design patterns and OOP concepts that has helped him improve in order to be able to work on the frameworks he had to work on later.
Sworup received his Bachelor of Information Technology degree from Purbanchal University in Nepal. He currently works with Zimris Technologies Nepal Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of Zimris, LLC, as a senior developer.
Sworup likes to keep on top of the current technologies, keeping an eye on StackOverflow, Laracasts forums, and occasional podcasts. He posts on these mediums whenever he can and is looking to start a technical blog documenting his experiences at http://sworup.com.np/. You can reach him at sworup.shakya@gmail.com.
I would like to thank Suzanne Coutinho, Francina Pinto and Chaitanya Nair of Packt Publishing for giving me this opportunity and helping me through the review process. I would like to thank my friends, family and colleagues for their unconditional support.