Masoud Kalali has a software engineering degree and has been working on software development projects since 1998. He has experience with a variety of technologies (.NET, J2EE, CORBA, and COM+) on diverse platforms (Solaris, Linux, and Windows). His experience is in software architecture, design, and server-side development.
Masoud has several articles published in Java.net and DZone, and has authored multiple refcards published by DZone, including Java EE security and GlassFish v3 refcards. He is one of founder members of the NetBeans Dream Team and a GlassFish community spotlighted developer.
Masoud's main areas of research and interest include Service Oriented Architecture and large-scale systems' development and deployment. In his leisure time he enjoys photography, mountaineering and camping.
Masoud blogs on Java EE, Software Architecture and Security at http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kalali/ and you can follow him at his Twitter account at http://twitter.com/MasoudKalali.
Masoud can be reached via < [email protected]>
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