Peter Larsson is a passionate software engineer and an open source evangelist. He has spent 28 years of his career creating software and commercially successful software products. And at all times, he has had the privilege to work with state-of-the-art technology in collaboration with very talented fellow workers. His special skills are in the fields of systems architecture and high-level design, and he views technology from a holistic perspective. Back in the 90s, he pioneered agile ways of working and used Java in large-scale product development organizations. Peter has a wide range of experience from different business domains, but with emphasis on telecom and high volume transaction systems.
Ravi Saraswathi is an IT executive with more than 20 years of global professional experience. Ravi has expertise in aligning business and IT, SOA implementation, IT strategy, cloud infrastructure design, IT operations, security, architecture, and performance tuning. He has a proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale technical projects and solutions. He is an expert in open source and vendor-based middleware products. From his experience, Ravi gained a solid understanding of the tools and technologies needed to create large-scale web-based software and services.
He currently heads the middleware engineering group for a highly reputed Fortune 500 financial company. He has spoken at several international conferences such as Apache, WebLogic conferences, and Java User Group meetings. His professional focus is on technical management, SOA, middleware architecture, and infrastructure design. He is the author of the book titled Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11gR1 – A Hands-on Tutorial.
He holds a Master's degree in Technology Management from George Mason University and has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Karnataka University. He holds a CIO University Certificate from Federal CIO University, General Services Administration, United States. He also has extensive experience in architecting and designing solutions using various Oracle fusion and open source middleware products.
He is an aspiring leader and entrepreneur. He has founded a successful IT consulting company. He has trained many associates in Fusion Middleware 11g to gain the skills for developing and designing solutions using Oracle SOA Suite and Service Bus. He actively contributes to the online community for open source and commercial middleware products, SOA, cloud, BPM, and infrastructure architecture technologies.
He holds various IT certifications such as TOGAF, Java, ITIL, Oracle, and WebLogic. His interests include open source containers, Java, infrastructure architecture, troubleshooting methodologies, and software design. He blogs at www.ravisaraswathi.com.
Paul Weinstein started working in the computer industry when he learned his first programming language. He has yet to look back, as the wondering road delivered his personal understanding of technology to a wide variety of locations, from public elementary schools and political campaigns to pioneering open source companies and local businesses.
At Orbit Media Studios, Paul works alongside Orbit's team of developers. His focus is on optimizing Orbit's development and operations and connecting the codebase with the server infrastructure.