Sriram Cherukumilli is a developer/architect with experience in architecture, design, and development across all application tiers with emphasis on enterprise SOA and real-time backend systems. He works at Argo Data Resources on Windows Workflow Foundation 4.5-based workflow management applications, which abstract developer and platform-specific details to present business-friendly orchestrations running extensible workflows across the company's different verticals. Sriram holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Information Technology.
Robert Gaut is a father, husband, martial arts practitioner, musician, photographer, and application developer. He began his life as a programmer in 1979, writing games on a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer. After attending college and receiving a degree in music, he went back to programming as an instructor at a technical college. Since then, he has built a career as a software architect focusing on web-based technologies and has helped build several successful start-up companies.
Moustafa Refaat has over 15 years' experience in developing software solutions, leading the architecture, design, coding, and refactoring of many large projects.
He has worked for the City of Vaughan and organizations such as TransCanada Pipelines, Tim Hortons, VMS, Deloitte DMGF, Newfoundland and Labrador, and First Canadian Title Insurance. Moustafa has designed and implemented many systems based on SQL Server and BizTalk. His experience spans the financial, insurance, health, banking, retail, oil and gas, marketing, and telecommunications services automation industries.
He is a published author with books on programming and BizTalk. He also acted as a referee for the IEEE Software magazine. Moustafa runs his own software and consulting company, Genetic Thought Software Inc.
Andrei Sinelnikov is an Information Technology professional, with over 14 years of experience in the design, development, and implementation of the Windows n-tier applications using the TOGAF, RUP, Agile, SCRUM, and Waterfall methodologies. He has also worked on the latest Microsoft technologies and SQL programming. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and a variety of Microsoft certifications in the Server, Database, and Developer stack.
He has worked on a variety of projects that apply Microsoft technology in the enterprise environments of various industries and government sectors, such as education, banking, insurance, law enforcement, municipal affairs, provincial government, and healthcare.
Municipal Infrastructure Management System, architected by Andrei, was chosen as a finalist in the 2010 Microsoft IMPACT Award in the Custom Development Solution of the Year and Small Business Specialist of the Year categories.
Smitha Sundareswaran has her PhD from Pennsylvania State University. Her current research focuses on distributed systems of scale, specifically cloud computing. She is very passionate about security systems and has done research in security in social networks, web applications, and cloud computing. She has led over 15 software development research projects as a program manager with over 20 refereed publications.