Prior to that, he was a Java/ J2EE developer in Cognizant Technology Solutions India Ltd. He has 8 years of experience in the IT field. He is a committer on Apache Geronimo and Apache OpenEJB projects, and was a part of the IBM worldwide Level 3 support team for Apache Geronimo and IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition. His interests include Application Servers (scalability, transaction processing, EIS connectivity), and the Java Virtual Machine. He has also authored many articles in IBM developerWorks and also co-authored an IBM Redbook on Migration to WebSphere Application Server. He received his Bachelor of Technology in Applied Electronics from the College of Engineering Trivandrum in the year 2001.