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 masters 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 of 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 mentor. He has authored Python Network Programming Cookbook - Second Edition and has also reviewed two Packt books on OpenDaylight.
I would like to thank Prof. Luís Veiga, my MSc and PhD advisor for his continuous guidance and encouragement throughout my time at Instituto Superior Técnico.