Simone Fiorini is a seasoned professional with 20 years of software development experience, specializing in large-scale software systems, mission critical applications, and project management in a wide variety of computing environments and platforms, with a focus on EAI, BPM, and integration-oriented tools. His latest efforts are focused on an online reservation system for a large Middle East railway company and a scalable, reactive, financial market data server for a leading Italian banking group's investment bank.

A graduate of both Università di Parma (earth science) and University of Milan (engineering of computing systems), Simone resides near Brescia, where he's trying to grow roses and other fragrant flowers for his wife, Giuliana, and their two sons.

Arun V Gopalakrishnan has more than 9 years of experience in creating architecture, designing, and developing enterprise applications used in the domains of BFSI, supply chain management, and telecom businesses.

He graduated as a bachelor of technology in electronics and communications and holds a master's degree in software systems. Currently, he is playing the role of a software architect in designing and developing an enterprise middleware platform.

He is well versed in service-oriented, event-driven architectures and has experience in integrating jBPM with enterprise architecture. He is passionate about learning new technologies and improving his knowledge base and expertise in JEE, OOAD, SOA, EDA, expert systems, and distributed computing.

Along with this technical expertise, he enjoys engineering software applications and is an avid follower, practitioner, and mentor of agile and continuous delivery models. He believes in tools and is well versed in creating, using, and extending DevOps tools, such as Eclipse, Maven, Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, Sonar, JIRA, and MediaWiki, to enhance the efficiency of development teams.