About Us — Waskey Press

Waskey Press is an independent technical publisher dedicated to helping people build practical, real-world skills in programming, data science, artificial intelligence, software engineering, and modern technology. We create books that bridge the gap between theory and practice, giving readers the knowledge and confidence to solve real problems—not just complete tutorials.

Technology evolves quickly, but the way people learn rarely does. Many technical books assume readers already think like software engineers or data scientists, leaving beginners and career changers behind. At Waskey Press, we take a different approach. Our books are designed to meet readers where they are, whether they're opening their first programming book, transitioning from spreadsheets to code, exploring artificial intelligence, or deepening professional expertise in software development and data analysis.

Our catalogue is organized into multiple book series, each built around a specific learning journey and audience. Some series guide spreadsheet users into programming and automation, others introduce complete beginners to Python, machine learning, and AI from first principles, while future collections will explore emerging technologies, software architecture, cloud computing, cybersecurity, data engineering, and many other fields. Every series follows the same philosophy: clear explanations, practical projects, and skills that remain useful long after the final chapter.

What We Believe

Learning technical skills should feel like building something meaningful, not memorizing isolated concepts. Every Waskey Press book is written around realistic projects, authentic datasets, and practical challenges inspired by the work professionals perform every day. We believe readers learn best by solving real problems, understanding why solutions work, and gradually developing the confidence to tackle increasingly complex technologies.

We also believe that excellent technical education should be accessible without being simplistic. Complex ideas deserve clear explanations, not unnecessary jargon. Whether a reader comes from Excel, finance, research, engineering, business, or has never written a line of code before, they deserve books that respect their intelligence while guiding them step by step. Our goal is not simply to teach programming languages or software tools, but to help readers develop lasting technical thinking they can apply throughout their careers.

The Team

Waskey Press is a small independent publishing house focused exclusively on high-quality technical books. Our authors, editors, and reviewers combine practical industry experience with a passion for teaching. Every title is carefully developed to balance technical accuracy, clarity, and real-world relevance, helping readers gain skills they can immediately apply in their work, studies, and personal projects.

T.R. Ashford

T.R. Ashford is part of the writing team behind the From Spreadsheets to Code series, published by Waskey Press. T.R. focuses on automation, scripting, and the practical side of turning repetitive spreadsheet work into reliable, repeatable tools.

Priya Nair

Priya Nair is part of the writing team behind the From Spreadsheets to Code series, published by Waskey Press. Priya specialises in statistics, data visualisation, and rigorous analytical methods for people moving beyond Excel.

Liam Carver

Liam Carver is part of the writing team behind the From Spreadsheets to Code series, published by Waskey Press. Liam writes on practical AI tool use, prompt design, and applying modern AI to everyday data and reporting work.

Garrett Hawthorne

Garrett Hawthorne writes technical books for genuine beginners, with a particular focus on making mathematically substantial subjects approachable through patient, code-grounded explanation rather than simplification or shortcuts. His teaching philosophy treats every reader as capable of genuine technical fluency, given a clear enough path and enough honestly worked examples.

Dave Malhotra

Dave Malhotra spent more than a decade building and deploying machine learning systems before turning to teaching. After leading applied AI engineering teams through the shift from scripted automation to truly autonomous agents, he joined Waskey Press to write the kind of technical books he wished had existed when he began his career: no slideware, no hand-waving just real, production-ready code, explained line by line.

Nolan Whitfield

Nolan Whitfield writes hands-on technical books for developers who want to genuinely understand the tools they work with, not just how to call them, but why they behave the way they do, and what happens when they fail. His writing focuses on the domains where getting the engineering wrong carries real consequences: data pipelines that run cleanly while quietly corrupting everything downstream, trading systems that look profitable in a backtest and lose money live, automation that repeats a single mistake faultlessly at scale.

Roan Whitaker

Roan Whitaker writes technical books for developers who want to understand the machine underneath their code, not just the language on top of it. His work focuses on the boundary where a comfortable, productive language runs out of road, where a file no longer fits in memory, a job outgrows the window it has to run in, or a runtime does too much on your behalf to get out of the way, and on teaching the ideas that let a working engineer cross that boundary without abandoning the ecosystem they already know.

Simone Nadeau

Simone Nadeau spent fifteen years working at the intersection of technology and public communication before turning full-time to writing about cybersecurity for non-technical audiences. She has explained complex technical subjects to policymakers, journalists, educators, and ordinary families — and found, consistently, that people's hunger for real understanding is far greater than the industry's willingness to supply it. Her work on digital safety began when her own family was targeted by a voice-cloning scam, an experience that convinced her that the public deserved both more honesty about the threats and better tools for understanding them. She has since spoken at public libraries, community centers, senior organizations, and schools on topics including phishing, identity theft, and helping older adults stay safe online.

Rennick Vaudrey

Rennick Vaudrey has spent the better part of a decade building and breaking distributed systems, the kind that run at three in the morning, that process millions of requests before anyone notices something is wrong, and that have to be understood by the engineer who inherits them, not just the one who wrote them. He came to Go the way most engineers do: reluctantly, then enthusiastically. He had written production services in Python and Java before a side project forced him to learn Go properly.

Sable Marchetti

Sable Marchetti is a software engineer and technical author with years of experience working at the intersection of JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern application development. Her work focuses on building practical, maintainable software and explaining the engineering decisions behind it. She writes with a strong emphasis on clarity, real-world projects, and honest treatment of the challenges developers face when moving from JavaScript to TypeScript. Through her books, she helps developers build not only working applications, but the confidence and technical discipline to create software that is easier to understand, test, maintain, and trust.

Perrin Kurt

Perrin Kurt is a technical author and software development practitioner with a passion for making complex technologies accessible through practical, project-based learning. His approach focuses on understanding how programming concepts work in real-world applications rather than simply memorizing syntax or isolated examples. Through the Waskey Press Kotlin Series, he guides readers from Kotlin fundamentals to Android development, backend APIs, databases, concurrency, and real-time systems, using a single evolving project to demonstrate how modern software is designed, built, tested, and connected. His books are written for readers who want not only to learn Kotlin, but to understand how the pieces come together to build useful and production-oriented software.

About Waskey Press.

What We Believe

The Team