Daniele Midi is a respected senior software engineer at Google whose areas of expertise include distributed systems, web and cloud development, graphic design and UX, and computer and information security. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University and has co-founded multiple successful startups, such as WhiteLemon design studio, Splitt.in, and Fifth Element. Daniele has three years of experience as a technical speaker for Microsoft Academic, where he gave talks about Web & Cloud and Windows 8 development in Italian universities and major national conferences. In addition to being a technical trainer for companies, Daniele is also an author for several online magazines. He is knowledgeable in Java, C#, Python, C/C++, ASP.NET MVC, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (jQuery and AJAX), Node.js, m, SQL Server, MySQL, Windows Azure, OCaml, and F#.