Rama Kishan Malladi

Rama Kishan Malladi is an Application Engineer with the Software and Solutions Group at Intel in Bangalore. He works with various software developers and vendors, enabling their applications on the latest Intel platforms by addressing architecture, platform, and performance-related issues. Rama has been working at Intel since 2004 supporting Intel Software Tools, tuning high-performance computing applications on Intel architecture, and resolving performance issues on client/ server applications. He holds a M.S. from University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
 

Mahesh U Patil

Mahesh aka CDACPenguin is an embedded Linux software engineer with more than 7 years of IT industry experience. He is well known as designer of the CDAC Embedded and VLSI course.  His area of expertise is Real time Linux and embedded Linux.

Rohit Srivastwa

Rohit Srivastwa is a well known security technologist. He has an expertise in cyber crime investigation and IT infrastructure management. Rohit is actively involved advising several military agencies, law enforcement personnel, media, corporate and Government bodies in these fields. He blogs at http://rohit11.blogspot.com/

Moinak Ghosh

Moinak Ghosh is a consultant specializing on OpenSolaris and *nix technologies. His past experience includes a 4.5yr stint at SUN Microsystems Solaris Sustaining Engineering team, 5yr stint at HCL Tech. Cisco ODC on Unix and networking. His interests include hacking on Unix, Linux and OpenSource in general. He has played around with Linux right from the Slackware 0.1 days and have occasionally contributed to opensource projects in the form of bugfixes and RFEs, eg. TkZip http://www.woodsway.com/TkZip/, Xfce, e2fsprogs, supertux, Brian Kernighan's One true AWK.

He has been heavily involved with the OpenSolaris community for the last 3 years contributing to various opensource projects like livemedia, loficc, Slim Install and fox. He has also been actively driving the Bangalore OpenSolaris user's group. 3 years ago he came up with my own LiveCD distribution of OpenSolaris called BeleniX (http://www.belenix.org/) which today is one of the most popular OpenSolaris distros and is maintained by a group of community folks. BeleniX is maintained entirely by spare time efforts from volunteers and is not a SUN project. The BeleniX website lives on genunix.org and project development portal is at SourceForge (http://sf.net/projects/belenix). BeleniX is developed and maintained entirely out of Bangalore with a build server in Russia and network package repositories and SVN workspaces also available.

Moinak blogs at http://moinakg.wordpress.com/

Arun Raghavan

Arun Raghavan is a long-time Linux and Open Source enthusiast and all-round geek. He is a developer on the Gentoo project as part of the Gnome Desktop team. He also wrote the Xesam adaptor for the Beagle desktop search project, which he continues to maintain. Arun holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science and currently works with the Embedded Software division at NVidia Graphics, Bangalore. He goes by the nick 'Ford_Prefect' on the Freenode IRC network. He maintains his website at http://nemesis.accosted.net

Durga Prasad Adusumalli
Durga Prasad is a Team Leader - Security Services at AppLabs, a global IT services company. In this position, he is responsible for delivery of Network and Application security assessments for the customers of AppLabs.
 

Keshav Prasad Kuruva
Keshav is the founder and COO of GameBuddys.com a game software development and testing company in Hyderabad.

Keshav Kuruva Prasad spent 2 years working on latest open source technologies and thoroughly walked in the Web2.0 world and RIA applications. Then he started moving as a consultant suggesting the technology and the platforms for building up either a simple social networking app to a sophisticated transactional model. 

Though playing video games on different consoles rating them on game forums, writing reviews and working as freelancer for games, as an enduser. Keshav loves playing video games and lives in that world and that led him to start a firm called GameBuddys.

Namita Iyer
Namita is a  enterprise storage specialist with more than 11 years of industry experience. During the course of her career she has worked with Infosys, VERITAS, Recombinant, CommVault and Brocade. Her interests include filesystems, snapshot technologies, CDP, Backup solutions, multi-protocol SANs and virtualization. She is a contributing author to Infostore magazine and has delivered many talks on Enterprise backup technologies. She is also a founding member of Twincling Technology Foundation and currently serves as the President. Namita blogs at http://namitaiyer.blogspot.com/

S Venkatesh
S Venkatesh is a Staff Software engineer at Yahoo Inc. and has worked extensively on Hadoop and distributed infrastructures.

Sugandh Rakha
Sugandh is a software engineer at Amazon India Development Center, Hyderabad. He is focussed on distributed algorithms design and FP - inspired frameworks like "Map - Reduce".

Sandip Tiwari
Sandip is an Open Source software geek and ultimate tinkerer, explorer, thinker and programmer. He is focussed on Qt 4.x, repository design, openSUSE Linux, Gentoo ebuilds, hacking and has keen eye for observing smart features in various software. He also heads the Twincling Vijayawada unit.