Martin Bean is a full-stack website developer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Prior to writing this book, he spent 8 years as a professional website developer, beginning his career and honing his skills in various agencies. After 5 years, he made the switch to running his own development and consultancy firm, where he worked with clients, both big and small. Although this is the first book he has authored, he has written other articles and acted as a technical reviewer on a Node.js title. He also blogs regularly on his own website, http://martinbean.co.uk. You can follow Martin on Twitter at https://twitter.com/martinbean.