Pradeeban Kathiravelu is an open source evangelist. He is a PhD researcher at INESC-ID Lisboa/Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He is a Fellow of Erasmus Mundus Joint Degree in Distributed Computing (EMJD-DC), researching a software-defined approach to quality of service and data quality in multi-tenant clouds. He holds a master of science degree, Erasmus Mundus European Master in Distributed Computing (EMDC), from Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He also holds a first class bachelor of science in engineering (Hons) degree, majoring in computer science and engineering, from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. His research interests include software-defined networking (SDN), distributed systems, cloud computing, web services, big data in biomedical informatics, and data mining. He is very interested in free and open source software development and has been an active participant of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program since 2009, as a student and as a mentor. He has also reviewed OpenDaylight Cookbook (ISBN: 978-1-78646-230-5).
I would like to thank Prof. Luís Veiga, my MSc and PhD advisor, for his continuous guidance and encouragement throughout my 5 years at Instituto Superior Técnico.
Moiz Raja is a software developer with more than 20 years' experience in building enterprise software. His primary experience is in building highly scalable distributed applications, but he also has years of experience building front-end software for Windows and the Web.
Moiz has worked at several large enterprise software companies, such as Avaya and Cisco. At Avaya, he built the Contact Center software, which included the Avaya Interaction Center and Avaya one-X Agent. At Cisco, Moiz served as a committer on the OpenDaylight controller project, where he contributed to building the MD-SAL distributed data store. He was voted a top-10 developer 2 years in a row while working on OpenDaylight and was also a presenter at the OpenDaylight summit in 2015.
Moiz is currently employed as a principal engineer at Viptela, which is a leading SD-WAN software startup, where he is helping build a highly scalable network management controller.