About the Reviewers

Ivan Chepurnyi has experience in web development for more than eight years and at least six of them are related to e-commerce.

He started his career as a Magento Developer when he joined Varien (now it is Magento Inc.) in May 2007 as one of the core team members. Since then, he has been working only with Magento, which is considered to be the most flexible and powerful open source e-commerce system.

Currently, he provides training on various developments, and works on complex projects at EcomDev BV, where he is one of the co-founders.

I want to thank my girlfriend Elena for being so helpful and patient during the late nights when I was reviewing this book. Also, I would like to appreciate the job that was done by the author of this book. Especially, after the reviews, it is always hard doing such a job. Many thanks to the team of Packt Publishing that was working on this interesting book, especially Joel Goveya, the Project Coordinator, who was very patient in spite of my short delays in sending the review.

Hans Kuijpers, an open source enthusiast was born and raised in the Netherlands and has been creating websites since 1995. He holds a BS in Technology Management from Fontys University. In the past he was working for KPN, a large Dutch Telecom company, as a developer on DNS platform.

He is currently working for Jira.nl, a Dutch company which offers Joomla! training, consulting, and project management, and Yireo.com, also located in Amsterdam, which publishes online videos and tutorials for Joomla! and Magento. He is also very active in the open source community and organizes Dutch Joomla! day events and sets up user groups. He also sets up monthly Magento user groups.

He has participated in reviewing, Joomla! templates ontwerpen, a Dutch book, which covers Joomla! template tutorials.

Fernando J. Miguel has seven years of experience in Information Technology, in which two years were dedicated as a trainee and five as a web developer. He participated in critical processes focusing on new challenges.

He has a Bachelor's degree in Information System from Centro Universitario Modulo, where he has received a scholarship for Best Academic Performance. He did his Post-Graduation in Health Informatics from the Universidade Federal de São Paulo. He has worked as an IT support volunteer for AIDS Prevention Congress in Caraguatatuba, SP, Brazil.

He has good knowledge about Content Management System tools, especially Joomla!, Magento, and WordPress. He also has knowledge about Magento e-commerce CMS development, customization, and support, and can also work on PHP development using Zend Framework.