Jeevanandam M. is a software architect and programmer living in India. He realized his passion for programming in the ninth grade and loves computers. Ever since, he has been enjoying every moment he spent with computers, programming and designing. In April 2011, he began blogging at http://myjeeva.com and actively contributing to open source communities, sometimes personally through http://github.com/jeevatkm.
He works for HCL Technologies as a Technical Architect; he was a campus recruit from SRM University, Chennai, India. He is a technology enthusiast and has expertise in Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), Web Content Management and Digital Asset Management, CDN, Cloud Enablement, BigData, Application Modelling and Proof of Concepts & Prototype space; he also has industry knowledge on publishing, education, Local Marketing Solutions, e-learning and LMS, and the editorial domain.
Greg Rundlett is the founder of eQuality Technology, a company that offers enterprise grade solutions to small and medium-sized companies. He is a long time free software advocate. He is active in the local community, and he participates in groups such as the Boston Linux User Group and Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group. Greg has also written for the Linux Pro magazine. He lives with his two sons in Salisbury, MA.
Param Sethi is a software developer with more than eight years of experience in designing, architecture, and developing highly scalable Web applications with a user base of more than half a billion. She has worked in backend and middle layer technologies for most of her career. She has worked on Core Java, J2EE, MySQL, Oracle, Apache Solr, Tomcat, XML, and JSON, and she recently started working on C#, ASP.net, JavaScript, and IIS. She is enthusiastic about working in Research and Development and the latest technologies. Apart from professional contributions, she is a passionate blogger and keeps a technical blog at http://params.me for sharing her experience in the tech space. She also provides professional guidance to budding engineers. Outside of her professional interests, she travels widely, reads, writes, snorkels, and enjoys living in California with her family. In her own words, "I feel the journey is what makes you feel the importance of the destination."
Param moved to northern California a couple of years ago for a new gig in Silicon Valley, working for a major tech company. Prior to sunny California, she was working in Virginia on Big Data Analytics. Her work involved examining large amounts of data of various types to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations, and other useful information, which provided competitive advantages over rival organizations and resulted in business benefits. Earlier, she worked on designing REST APIs for various web applications, and these were used across many teams in the company for providing secure data information. She was a cultural ambassador at her previous company and received the Star Performer and Star Performer Team awards for her technical contributions.