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About the Author

Allen Drennan is Principal and Co-Founder, Cordoniq. When he founded
Nefsis Corp. in 2005, Allen introduced a cloud-based, video conferencing
online service, cited by Frost and Sullivan as the first of its kind. He
achieved this by building engineering teams to create a mobile and
desktop solution that successfully blended web and native code into a
seamless online service.

Over his career Allen has designed, built and deployed large-scale SaaS
solutions for real-time video and collaboration, and created new
technology for mobile video user interfaces, messaging, text, voice and
video communications. Some of these solutions have been recognized
in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant and featured in major industry publications over the years, such as eWeek,
PC Magazine, USA Today, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CyberDefense Magazine and
more.

A frequent contributor to open-source projects, Allen also writes about highly technical software
engineering topics for iOS, Android, Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Allen went on to found Cordoniq, Inc., bringing together many of the team of senior engineers who created
Nefsis and OmniJoin, as well as new talented team members, to create the next generation of truly
secure, state-of-the-art video conferencing and collaboration.

Allen can be reached online at LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-drennan-0359a822/ and at our
company website https://cordoniq.com/.

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