About the Authors

Yogananth T. V., was born in the temple city of South India, Madurai, and brought up in Chennai for schooling and college. He has secured M.S. in software engineering from BITS PILANI - 2004 & PC-SCM from IIT Roorkee - 2023. At the time of writing this book, he works in Gorilla Technology as solutions director and is pursuing a Ph.D at Shiv Nadar University with blockchain as core domain. Previously, he worked with the Reliance Jio Platform (supply chain), and HCL Technologies for Cisco Systems Inc.

He has overall 24+ years of IT experience in various domains, with core competence in Cisco networking, unified communication, and DataCenter. Developing products and services for I18N, GST, Azure/IoT, and test automation frameworks, he has shown extensive experience in Java, Python, and Golang. His career started as a fresher at HCL Technologies-Cisco Systems in 2000, when everyone was fascinated by the Y2K problem. During the early stages in his career, he was involved in the development of SIP protocol stack in C/C++. He was certified as CCIE-VOICE, CCNP-R&S, ONAP-Network Automation, CCDH (Hadoop), VCP- 4.0.

Apart from domain certifications, he has also earned JLPT N4, Japanese Language Proficiency. He is highly adaptive, a multitasking, systematic personality, and known for his problem-solving skills, mentoring abilities, and a pronounced teacher on various technologies like networking, virtualization, OpenStack, and Kubernetes. He also performed the role of guest faculty at BITS Pilani, conducting a course titled, Design and Operations of Datacenter.

Balachandar A. (born on 11 November 1991), holds a master’s degree MCA - Computer from RVS College of Engineering and Tech – Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India. He is a Senior software engineer with hands-on experience in Golang, Python, REST API’s, CLI based applications, scripting, microservices, SAAS applications, AWS, CI/CD automation, Docker Containerization, Linux, application solution designing, large scale applications development, all levels of testing, including performance, functional, integration, system, regression and user acceptance testing and cloud. He is a supportive and enthusiastic team player dedicated to streamlining, processing, and efficiently resolving project issues. His contributions to this field have been rewarded by Telstra, where he has successfully led and delivered multiple projects in enterprise applications and infrastructure cloud-based solutions. He is also a passionate traveler.