About the reviewers

Ricardo Ferreira is a Principal Solution Architect at Oracle. He is part of a special pision of Oracle's Engineering called The A-Team, a highly respected team within Oracle that has the responsibility of - succeed where all else failed - therefore helping Product Management, Sales, Consulting, and Support in their most complex challenges.

He has more than 20 years of experience, and throughout his professional career, he has held several technical roles, which goes from Software Engineering, Sales Consultancy, and ultimately Solution Architecture. Before joining Oracle in 2011, he worked for other technology vendors such as Red Hat, Progress Software, and IONA Technologies. His background has been particularly focused on Distributed Systems, specifically in the areas of Integration, APIs, Messaging, and In-Memory Computing.

Nowadays; Ricardo spends part of his time helping the Oracle API Platform Cloud Service product to evolve, by building needed features (he is the author of the REST 2 SOAP policy), helping the community inside and outside Oracle to address technical issues, being one of the Black Belt instructors for advanced classes of the product.

Arturo Viveros is an outstanding Mexican IT Professional currently based in Oslo, Norway. He is a certified Cloud Integration Architect with over 12 years of experience in the design, development, and delivery of software for a variety of customers and industries. Arturo is also a Developer Champion, Oracle ACE, and a published technology writer both in English and in Spanish. He also strives constantly to be involved with and support developer communities/user groups that focus on technologies such as Oracle, Cloud, Java, DevOps, Software Architecture, open source, and Blockchain. In his spare time, Arturo enjoys family life, reading, hiking, travelling, playing guitar, and practicing sports such as tennis, football, and skiing.

Thanks to Luis, Phil, and the rest of the crew for having me be a part of this awesome project; special thanks to my employer, Sysco, for supporting this kind of endeavor and particularly to my department manager, Jon Petter, who is always around my corner. As always, all my efforts are dedicated to my lovely wife, Jessica, and my beautiful family, Luly, Arturo, and Dany.

Rolando, with a passion of systems and applications integration, has spent most of his professional career working with customers to solve a common long time problem: Applications Integration.

Since his years in college he started to work with Hewlett Packard (Mexico), where he joined back in 2001. Even though his tenure with HP was short, he realized that his professional career should be focused on Applications Integration. He started to implement integration solutions with JAVA, XML, web services, EAI.

He graduated with honors and was the best qualified student of his generation (1997-2001) . He studied in Mexico at Universidad Iberoamericana.

An important event happened while he was working with HP. It was the HP and Compaq fusion. When that happened, a lot of changes occurred at HP and Rolando moved to Oracle. That pretty much changed his professional career to these days.

At Oracle, he was always focused in the Integration technology that Oracle had at that time. There were not too many products unlike today, but  it was something to start with.

Then the Collaxa acquisition by Oracle happened, and that was the first step in this journey that has turned Rolando into one of the most respected professionals in the Oracle SOA space for the Latin-American market.

Rolando started to work with Oracle BPEL PM and had the opportunity to join the Oracle Product Management Team. He was the first PM for LAD in those days, covering from Mexico to Brazil.

From 2005 to 2010, he was a Principal Product Manager for the Latin-American region being in charge the whole Fusion Middleware stack. Those years were the ones when Oracle acquired most of the components that are the foundation of the current Middleware offering: BEA, Thor, SUN, Oblix, Tangosol, and so on. Rolando had to be proficient in the whole stack, which was a great challenge because of the extension of every product. All these had kept Rolando very busy in the whole region, and gave him the opportunity to work in the most important customer of the region. From Mexico to Argentina, Rolando collaborated with the different Oracle’s subsidiaries to promote the usage of Fusion Middleware.

Then in 2010 he joined S&P Solutions. He joined as an associate. S&P Solutions is one of the most important Oracle partners in the Latin-American region. In S&P, Rolando has had the opportunity to implement most of the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack, with top companies in Mexico (telcos, financial institutions, retailers, manufacturing, and construction).

Currently, Rolando and his company have evolved into a modern development technology consulting firm. New wave development around Microservices, APIs, DevOps, Containers, Chatbots, Opensource technology are deployed on the cloud.

Rolando is both an Oracle ACE and Oracle Developer Champion, and is also one of the leaders of the ORAMEX Oracle Users Group in Mexico. He has a lot of articles and posts published at his blog (oracleradio.blogspot.com) as well as in the Oracle Tecnhology Network for the Spanish speaking community.

Rolando wrote, back in 2015, Oracle API Management 12c Implementation together with some other friends and colleagues. This has been one of his greatest achievements in his career.

I would like to thank my savor, Jesus Christ, for giving me the time, knowledge, and talent to do my work as good as I can.

I also would like to thank my wife, Cristina, and daughter, Constanza, for supporting me. They have always been with me and always help me move forward. I'd also like to thank my mom, dad, and brother. I'm blessed to be part of a great family. I'd also like to thank my company, S&P Solutions, my business partner and great friend, Ricardo González, and with special love to my friends, Leonardo González, Erik Sigg, and Paola Sánchez.