Joseph Faisal Nusairat, author of three Apress books, is currently a Senior Staff Engineer at Tesla developing the next generation of products for the Platform Engineering team. He has experience in a full range of the development life cycle from requirements gathering, to full stack development, to production support of applications. In addition to speaking, coaching, and training of software. Joseph started his career in 1997 doing primarily Java/JVM full stack applications. In the Java realm he became proficient and gave talks on Java, Groovy, Scala, Kotlin, and Clojure. In the last few years other languages like Rust, Go, and Elixir have caught not only his interest but his dedication. Over the years he's learned to create code that not only is readable, but maintainable all while trying to minimize its memory footprint while maximizing performance. His career has lead through a variety of industries from banking, insurance, fraud, retailers, defense, and now electric cars. Joseph is a graduate of Ohio University with dual degrees in Computer Science and Microbiology with a minor in Chemistry.

Joseph is a published author, speaker, and trainer, he can be found on twitter, github and gitlab as @nusairat.