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Kunal Dabir has over 10 years of experience working with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups. Currently, he works as a Lead Consultant at ThoughtWorks. He is a Java user group's co-organizer and speaks at various meet-ups and conferences. While he is always eager to learn a new language, he usually codes in languages such as Groovy, Scala, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, and Java. He frequently contributes to open source projects and also hosts his own projects on GitHub. He has always been passionate about automating and scripting. From there, he got a knack for build tools. Apart from Gradle, he has spent a fair amount of time writing build scripts with tools such as Ant, Maven, Grunt, and Gulp. He was introduced to Gradle in 2011 while using Gaelyk. Since then, Gradle has become his tool of choice for build automation. He can be found on Twitter and GitHub as @kdabir.

Abhinandan is a Java guy with extensive experience in software design, architecture, and deployment and automation framework. He is passionate about providing solutions for different business needs. His other passions include hiking, reading and travelling. You can contact him at designationtraveller@yahoo.com



Like a film cannot be made with just actors and directors, it requires lots of different team member’s help, who supports at different stages till the movie get published, in the similar way book is not just effort of one person or the author. It requires lots of support from different people at different stages without which it would not be possible to put the thoughts on the paper and made it available to audience

First and foremost, I would like to thank my family for all the support they gave me throughout this book. They never complained about the weekends, vacations which I compromised while working on the book.

I would like to express my gratitude towards the PactPub publisher team (Parita, Purav, Rashmi), who provided support, from the initiation of the idea till the publication of the book. I appreciate that they believed in me and provided me the opportunity to become to become the coauthor of this book.

I would like to thank the reviewers who helped me to improve the quality of the book.

Thanks to Mainak, for the quality inputs and comment, which helped to make this book complete. I could not have done it without you.