Desai Azaz - Mule ESB Cookbook

Dr. Zakir Laliwala is an entrepreneur, open source specialist, and hands-on CTO of Attune Infocom. Attune Infocom provides enterprise-level open source solutions, and services for SOA, BPM, ESB, Portal, Cloud computing, and ECM. At Attune Infocom, he is responsible for solutions and services delivery and product development. He is exploring new enterprise-level open source solutions, and defining architecture, roadmap, and best practices. He has provided consulting and training on various open source technologies to corporates around the world on Mule ESB, Activiti BPM, JBoss' jBPM and Drools, Liferay Portal, Alfresco ECM, Jboss SOA, and Cloud computing.

Dr. Zakir pursued Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technology from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology. He was the Adjunct Faculty at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) and CEPT University, where he now teaches students pursuing Master's.

He has published many research papers in IEEE and ACM international conferences on web services, SOA, Grid computing, and Semantic Web. He also serves as a reviewer at various international conferences and journals. He has contributed chapters on open source technologies and writes books on open source technologies.

Abdul Samad has more than seven years' hands-on experience in leading and implementing Java, J2EE, Portal, and ECM open source solutions. He has successfully migrated IBM WebSphere portal to Liferay Portal for a client based in the U.K. He has delivered successful training with his experience and expertise on Liferay Portal and jBPM to Sambaash, AT&T, Cognizant, Urja Technologies, and Protea Technologies. He was part of an enterprise-level, open source portal application implementation for media and publication houses, portal customization projects, and led a team of developers to achieve the client's requirements on time.

He has expertise in implementing J2EE technologies (JSP, Servlet, MVC Frameworks, BPM, ESB, and Portlet frameworks) to develop enterprise web applications. He has worked with various frameworks such as Mule ESB, jBPM, Liferay, Alfresco, and Oracle WebLogic portal on his journey.

Azaz Desai has more than three years' experience in Mule ESB, JBPM, and Liferay technologies. He is an Oracle Certified Java Programmer (OCJP). He is responsible for implementing, deploying, integrating, and optimizing services and business processes using ESB and BPM tools. He is a lead writer of Mule ESB Cookbook , Packt Publishing , as well playing a vital role of trainer on ESB to global clients at Attune Infocom.

He is very enthusiastic and active in understanding client-specific requirements on web service integration. He has done various integration of web services, such as Mule ESB with Liferay, Alfresco, jBPM, and Drools. He was a part of a key project on Mule ESB integration as a messaging system. He has worked on various web service standards and frameworks, such as CXF, AXIS, SOAP, and REST.

Uchit Vyas a B.Tech. graduate in Computer Science with a research interest in ESB and Cloud, is a certified Cloud Architect (AWS), Cisco (CCNA), VMware (VSP), and Red Hat Linux (RHCE) professional. He has an energetic strength to work on multiple platforms at a time and the ability to integrate open source technologies. He works as a Sr. Consultant and looks after AWS Cloud, Mule ESB, Alfresco, Liferay and deploying Portal, and ECM system. He was previously working with TCS as an Assistant System Engineer.

With over three years' hands-on experience on open source technologies, he manages to guide the team and deliver projects and training sessions meeting client expectations. He has provided more than 13 training sessions on Cloud computing, Alfresco, and Liferay in a couple of months. In the last few years, he has moved over 80 percent of Attune Infocom business processes to the Cloud by implementing agile SDLC methodology on Amazon, Rackspace, and private Clouds such as Eucalyptus and OpenStack. His skills are not limited to designing and managing Cloud environment/infrastructure, server architecture. He is also active in Shell scripting, autodeployment, supporting hundreds of Linux and Windows physical and virtual servers hosting databases, and applications with continuous delivery using Jenkins/CruiseControl with Puppet/Chef scripting.