Nishant Chandra is a principal software engineer at Boomerang Commerce. His main interests are in building scalable software, SOA, data mining, and mobile. He has been working on e-commerce applications based on large J2EE and peer-to-peer technologies. He is an active blogger (http://n-chandra.blogspot.in/) and contributes to open source projects. Other than software technology, he is also interested in analytics, product management, Internet marketing, and startups.

In the past, Nishant has worked at Amazon.com and Adobe Inc.

Fuad Malikov is CTO and co-founder of Hazelcast. Prior to Hazelcast, he worked on J2EE projects as a technology consultant in financial and telecom industries. He was an IT architect at IBM, developing a J2EE-based core-banking system for one of the biggest banking transformation projects in Europe. He loves math and has a bronze medal from the International Mathematical Olympiad. He holds a B.Sc.in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul.