Siva Prakash has been working in the field of software development for the last 7 years. He is currently working in CISCO, Bangalore. He has extensive development experience in desktop, mobile, and web-based applications in ERP, telecom, and the digital media industry. He is passionate about learning new technologies and sharing knowledge with others. He has worked on big data technologies for the digital media industry. He loves trekking, traveling, music, reading books, and blogging.

He is available on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/techsivam.

Tharindu Rusira is currently working as a graduate research assistant at the School of Computing, University of Utah while pursuing his doctoral studies in computer science, specializing in compiler technology for performance optimization. He is also passionate about machine learning and its applications in a wide spectrum of real-world problems.

Tharindu is available on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/trusira.