About the Authors

Sekhar Reddy is a technology generalist. He has deep expertise in Windows, Unix, Linux OS, and programming languages, such as Java, C#, and Python.

Sekhar possesses 8 years of experience in designing large-scale systems/pipelines using REST, cloud technologies, NoSQL, relational databases, and big data technologies.

He enjoys new ways of solving difficult problems and brings the same kind of enthusiasm to design and code. He loves implementing innovative ideas, working on exciting products, and writing efficient code.

His current interests include IoT platforms, distributed systems, cloud computing, big data technologies, and web-scale applications.

Sekhar is working with a high-end technology consulting company, Mactores Innovations, as a senior research engineer, and has a MS in computer science from Kakatiya University.

Aurobindo Sarkar is actively working with several start-ups in the role of CTO/technical director. With a career spanning more than 22 years, he has consulted at some of the leading organizations in the US, the UK, and Canada. He specializes in software-as-a-service product development, cloud computing, big data analytics, and machine learning. His domain expertise is in financial services, media, public sector, mobile gaming, and automotive sectors. Aurobindo has been actively working with technology startups for over 5 years now. As a member of the top leadership team at various startups, he has mentored several founders and CxOs, provided technology advisory services, developed cloud strategy, product roadmaps, and set up large engineering teams. Aurobindo has an MS (computer science) from New York University, M.Tech (management) from Indian Institute of Science, and B.Tech (engineering) from IIT Delhi.