Jobin Kuruvilla is an Atlassian Consultant who is experienced in customizing JIRA and writing JIRA plugins for various customers. He is working with Go2group, a premier Atlassian partner and is involved in managing Atlassian products for big enterprises to small starter license installations.
Jobin had started his career as a Java/J2EE Developer in one of the biggest IT companies in India. After spending the initial years in the SOA world, he got hooked into this amazing product called JIRA, which he came across during the evaluation of third-party products for a requirements management solution. Soon Jobin realized the power of JIRA and pledged to spread the word. He has been doing it ever since, and reckons there is a long way to go!
Jobin runs a website named "J Tricks – Little JIRA Tricks" (http://www.j-tricks.com). He has written numerous tutorials to help the developer community, who he thinks has contributed immensely to his personal development. It is indeed those tutorials that sowed the first seeds for this book.