Balaji D Loganathan has 10+ years of experience in the software field, is a CEO and Co-founder of Spritle Software—a software development company in Chennai, India. Balaji is an Agile Guru specializing in Agile Offshore, a Certified Scrum Master. Balaji has a Master's degree in IT from the RMIT, Australia and a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from the Annamalai University, India.

When Michael Ratcliffe was 9 years old he saw a movie called "Wargames". Like many kids his age he became very interested in computers. A few weeks later he was playing "Roland in the Caves" on a friend's Amstrad CPC 464 when the game crashed and the command prompt displayed "Illegal Operation." Believing that he had hacked something, he decided that he wanted to become a full time hacker and therefore became much more determined to learn how computers work and what can be done with them.

At 12 years of age, his parents bought him an Acorn Electron Microcomputer as a Christmas present. Within 6 months he had written his first game, Wargames, in BBC Basic. By the time he was 14, he was regularly writing programs in 6502 Assembly language and would regularly send pokes (infinite lives, invulnerability, and so on) to computer magazines to help people with their new games.

At 15 years of age, he started work in IT as a support engineer. His use of programming languages extended to Turbo C, C++, Pascal, Delphi, C#, VB, VBScript, VB.NET, HTML, JavaScript, ASP, PHP, Perl, and so on. Some years later he discovered that he was spending a large amount of time writing tools to help his colleagues with their work and decided that he should get the paper qualifications he would need. He started as a computer science major but, after receiving a ton of job offers in the field, he just dropped out of university and has been professional ever since.

Michael is currently working for Comartis AG, Switzerland on e-Learning software called i-qbox Human Performance Suite. He works daily with VB.NET, C#, and JavaScript but prefers JavaScript, claiming that its quirks just make the language more fun. As the "JavaScript Guy" he uses Firebug to get his work done properly. In 2008 he began logging Firebug issues and soon began spending lots of time fixing bugs to make his work easier. He worked for a time on Firebug Lite but spends most of his "spare time" now working on improving the Firebug Inspector, which he likes to think of as "Aardvark on Steroids."

Michael Sync has lately been associated with Memolife as a Solution Architect, responsible for building their products using Silverlight and other .Net technologies.

Prior to venturing into this, he was creating a niche in Web Application Development using ASP.NET, AJAX, JavaScript, and so on.

He had always believed in the concept of "Sharing Knowledge", which is the key to building his in-depth understanding of the technology. That's the main reason why he always tries to participate in public forums and local newsgroups for helping fellow technologists; benefits are also received, as learning is a two-way process.

Being a member of Microsoft WPF/Silverlight Insider team, he really enjoys playing with early drops of Silverlight and giving his feedback to the team.