Srinath is a scientist, software architect, and a programmer that works on distributed systems. He is a co-founder of Apache Axis2 project, and a member of the Apache Software foundation. He is a co-architect behind WSO2’s Stream Processor (wso2.com/analytics). Srinath has authored two books about MapReduce and many technical articles. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University, USA, in 2009 twitter: @srinath_perera