Jayaram Krishnaswamy studied at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore India and Madras University in India and taught at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras. He went to Japan on the basis of Japanese Ministry of Education Research scholarship to complete his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Nagoya University. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Sydney University in Australia; a Government of India Senior Scientific Officer at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur; a Visiting Scientist at the Eindhoven Institute of Technology in the Netherlands; a Visiting Professor of Physics at the Federal University in Brazil; an Associate Research Scientist at a government laboratory in Sao Jose dos Campos in Sao Paulo, Brazil; a visiting scientist at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada before coming to the USA in 1985. He has also taught and worked at the Colorado State University in Fort Collins and North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. He worked with the Northrop Grumman Corporation on a number of projects related to high energy electron accelerators / Free Electron Lasers. These projects were undertaken at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, NY and in the Physics Department at Princeton University, NJ. He has over 80 publications in refereed and non-refereed publications and eight issued patents. He is fluent in Japanese and Portuguese and lives in Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA. He is also an affiliate of the IEEE Computer Society and a Member of the American Physical Society.

He has been working in IT-related fields since 1997. He was once a Microsoft Certified Trainer in Networking and a Siebel Certified developer. He has worked with several IT-related companies, such as the Butler International in their Siebel practice; with several IBM sub-contractors and smaller companies. Presently, he is active in writing technical articles in the IT field to many online sites such as CodeProject.com, APSFree.com, DevShed.com, DevArticles.com, OfficeUsers.org, ASPAlliance.com, Egghead Café, SSWUG.org, Packt Article Network, databasedev.co.uk, cimaware.com, and many others. Between 2006 and 2010, he wrote more than 400 articles mostly related to database and web-related technologies covering Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase, ColdFusion, Sun and other vendor products. He has also written two Microsoft Business Intelligence-related books for Packt and a book on Microsoft SQL Azure. He regularly writes to his four blogs on Blogger; http://hodentek.blogspot.com; http://hodentekHelp.blogspot.com; http://hodentekMSSS.blogspot.com; and http://hodentekMobile.blogspot.com. He recently received Microsoft's Microsoft Community Contributor award for 2011.