Pradyumna Dash has been in IT for more than 10 years. He has a Bachelor's degree in IT and Management and holds a number of certifications from vendors such as RedHat, Oracle, SNIA, EXIN, OpenGroup, IBM, Rackspace, AWS, and many more. Currently, he works as a solution architect for a consulting organization in a team specializing in free and open source solutions, virtualization, cloud computing, infrastructure consulting, infrastructure architecture and design, and developing solutions for large data centers. He has been working with Linux since 1998 and is an open source fanatic, and has extensive knowledge on open source virtualization solutions and cloud technologies.

Linux and knowledge sharing are two of his many passions.

He has also published multiple articles for Asia's biggest Linux magazine and is an active member in multiple Linux user groups and communities across the globe.