About the Reviewer

Ivano Malavolta is a postdoctoral researcher at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (L'Aquila, Italy), and he holds a PhD in computer science from the University of L'Aquila. His research is positioned in three main fields: software architecture, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), and mobile-enabled systems. He is especially interested in investigating how MDE techniques can be exploited for architecting complex and mobile-enabled software systems at the right level of abstraction. He is the author of more than 40 papers in international journals and peer-reviewed international conferences' proceedings; among them, he has coauthored two articles published in the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), which is considered the leading journal in the field of software engineering. He is a reviewer for four international journals, a program committee member of 10 international conferences, a reviewer for 13 international conferences, and a guest editor of an international journal.

He is an instructor of three courses on software engineering, mobile computing, and mobile application development via web technologies; these courses are held at the University of L'Aquila and Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy.

He has previously reviewed other books about web technologies for Packt Publishing, such as Backbone.js Cookbook by Vadim Mirgorod and Backbone.js Blueprints by Andrew Burgess.