Marko Gargenta Expert Profile
Marko founded Marakana back in 2001 to help underprivileged youth, minorities, and inner-city kids learn web technologies and get ahead in life. So Marakana emerged with goal of helping people get better at what they do professionally, focused on open source software training.
Marko is the developer of Marakana Android Training series. He has taught Android for companies such as Sony-Ericsson, Qualcomm, Ericsson Canada, and many others. Marko is a co-founder of San Francisco Android Users Group and regularly teaches Android Bootcamp at Marakana.
Marko is author of Learning Android book published by O'Reilly Media. This book is based on Android Bootcamp and incorporates best learning practices for new developers to start creating applications for this exciting open source mobile platform.
Marko is also the co-chair of Android Open, an O'Reilly conference focusing on Android ecosystem.
In 2006 Marko Gargenta published "PHP and MySQL By Example", a collection on PHP examples. The book was published by Prentice Hall, world's largest technology publisher and has been also translated to Spanish.
Marko Gargenta obtained his Bachelor of Mathematics Degree from University of Waterloo (Canada's MIT) and has been developing in Java since 1996. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Speaking Engagements
- AnDevCon, SF, May 14-17 2012
- IEEE, Silicon Valley, CA, May 7 2012
- Mobile360Live, London, UK, April 2012
- MobileTechCon 2012, Munich, Germany, March 2012
- DroidCon 2012, Berlin, Germany, March 2012
- Android Builders Summit, SF Bay Area, Feb 2012
- Sprint Developers Conference, Santa Clara, CA
- Android Open conference, October 9-11, San Francisco, CA
- OSCON, July 25, Portland, OR
- Open Android webcast, July 8, 2011
- AnDevCon, March 7-9, 2011, San Francisco, CA
- Sprint Developer Conference, October 26-28, 2010, Santa Clara, CA
- OSCON: Android for Java Developers on July 19, 2010, Portland, OR
- Snaptic: Android for Java Developers, May 27, SF, CA
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SF Bay Area Chapter May 1, 2010
- IEEE Computer Society "Android Night" on April 13, 2010
- Scandinavian Developer Conference 2010: Android for Java Developers, March 16, 2010, Gotheborg, Sweden
- SFAndroid: Learn about Android Internals and NDK, SF
- SFAgile: Scrum Overview at Microsoft, SF
- SFAndroid: Learn about Data Persistence in Android
- SFAndroid: Learn how to develop for Android, beyond the HelloWorld
- Software Development Forum, Mobile SIG: Android Overview
- Open Source Conference (OSCON): A 30000-foot View of the Android Platform
Marko's Interview on Android at OSCON 2011
Marko's Interview on Android at OSCON 2010
Book by Marko: PHP and MySQL by Example (Prentice Hall)
Marko Gargenta the co-author of PHP and MySQL by Example, a by-example book published by Prentice Hall (world's largest tech publisher). Marko has been tinkering with the web since Mosaic browser hit the net in 1994. Marko is now a Zend Certified Engineer and instructor for most of the Zend PHP classes, with fine focus on advanced PHP topics such as Zend Framework. Marko is big on Agile development processes, eXtreme Programming, and is a Certified ScrumMaster. He's a frequent speaker at Bay Area users' groups, including SFAgile.org (which he runs), SFJava.org and SFAndroid.org (which he co-founded). Marko's PHP specialty is bringing grownup concepts such as OOP, Agile, and the design patterns to the PHP community. Marko's other specialties are Java and Android.
Android Meetup Group Organized by Marko
Marakana team organizes and runs the San Francisco Android Users' Group - an interactive group of Android developers. In our monthly meetings, we discuss Android landscape from both technology and business angles. We often have great presentations by industry experts, group discussions, as well as hands-on sessions. If you are in San Francisco Bay Area, we encourage you to join the group and meet other Android developers.
SDC 2010
Marko speaks at Scandinavian Developer Conference. Come by and say hi if you are in Göteborg.
Expertise
| Java | PHP | XML | Apache |
| JavaEE | Ajax | XSL | JavaScript |
| CSS | HTML | OOP | Objective-C |
| MySQL | SQL | AWT | Swing |
| Scrum Project Management | Agile | Android | Spark |
Upcoming Schedule
Marko Gargenta is scheduled to teach the following classes:
| Course | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Android™ Security | Jun 7 - Jun 8 | Motorola Solutions |
| Android™ Internals | Sep 4 - Sep 7 | San Francisco |
| Android™ Internals | Nov 26 - Nov 29 | New York City |
| Intro to Android™ | Dec 10 - Dec 12 | San Francisco |
| Android™ Bootcamp | Dec 10 - Dec 14 | San Francisco |
| Advanced Android™ | Dec 13 - Dec 14 | San Francisco |
Classes in bold are guaranteed to run!
[top] Student Testimonials
Great class -useful hands on experience and real time stuff. Right on time for our project as well !Thanks .
This course was great! The pace felt fast at first, but once I got familiar with how the labs are conducted, it turned out to be just right. More courses should follow your approach. I thought the MyTwitter example was perfect for the type of device. Much better than the video store example everyone seems to use.
The instructor was kind and concerned with motivating the class. He demonstrated very good knowledge of the topics and kept a good pace in the course, giving theory and practice in a well balanced manner.
This class gave me a greater understanding on PHP coding using best practices and was a great start to my professional development.
It was actually good to do this on our own work computers to be able to retain the development environment.
Marakana's Android Bootcamp is the best of the best when it comes to Android Training. Android from a high level is a rather daunting task, but Marko breaks it down into what is important and what can be ignored. Overall, the class exceeded my expectations and I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to get a better grasp on Android.
Coverage of the android tools like logcat and shell was excellent and invaluable. The trainer was highly effective and entertaining. I would definitely take another course with him. The Android Bootcamp provided a solid foundation and increased my understanding of the platform dramatically.
Very thorough knowledge of Android. Excellent training.
Excellent class!
The training was excellent. Instructor was able to provide numerous examples for each topic covered to make it easier to understand.
Awesome job! Thanks!
This class filled a significant knowledge gap of information not readily available in a well organized format anywhere. Marko did an excellent job putting all the parts together to paint a complete picture for us.
Great Teacher!
Good Job!
Come back soon, I enjoyed the class.
This course was great! Marko was professional and at the same time created an easygoing learning environment. The small class size allowed for easy interaction with the instructor. I definitely feel like I can tackle my own android apps now.
Marko was an excellent instructor. I feel very confident with the information I've learned over the past few days. Thanks.
Very good.
The level of material was perfect for me. Coming from an iOS world, the course delivered exactly what I needed to make the transition of concepts I know in one world (iOS) to the Android world. Awesome class! Instructor's knowledge is top notch and teaching abilities are great.
I thought the training was great.
Instructor very knowledgable on Android. Great course overall for Android
Good job Marko. Well rounded effort. This was a good course to get into android. The trainer (Marko) did a good job customizing the course for us and then covering all the topics of interest for us. His command of the tool helped in making this a good course.
Cannot think of a bad thing to say about the instructor, the presentation or the material. The instructor was extremely well-prepared and always professional while remaining friendly and accessible. His knowledge was outstanding, allowing him to troubleshoot or walk us through new material on the fly. The prepared material was nearly ideal to cover the range of topics, presented in an order that kept the course both understandable and challenging.
Great training class.
Marko, GREAT class! Thanks.
Marko is a great teacher and explains how things work well. I learned a lot during the class. It really worth the trip from Taipei to San Francisco.
Great Pace and Training.
The course met my expectations, it was very well taught and had an excellent format including plenty of hands on activities. The Twitter app project was great to get exposure to the main Android constructs.
This was a great and informative overview of Android. Marko was very professional, answered all the questions and took the time to understand our needs.
Very knowledgible and helpful instructor.
