Some of my interests in Java and Scala are in finding the best ways to effectively couple various servlet-filter technologies with the new front-end web2.0 style front-ends and various back-end persistent storage/databases/repositories. Some of the servlet-filter technologies I work with are Spring Framework, Groovy, Grails, Vaadin, GWT, Struts2, Wicket, WebWork, XWork, Portal and plain old J2EE Servlet implementations. Some of the back-end persistent storage/databases/repositories that I focus on are SQL Server, MySQL (MariaDB), Postgresql, H2 Database, MongoDB, CouchDB, Hadoop (HDFS) and Memcached. Some of the front-end technologies that interest me are – JQuery, Dojo, ExtJS, GWT, Yahoo UI, Prototype and plain old HTML. I have always found it fascinating and challenging to find the right balance in use of these technologies to create a robust, scalable, secure solution that meets the needs of a web based application.

Some of my other passions are in Linux (CentOS, Red Hat, Gentoo, Open Stack, Docker & Ubuntu) and embedded processors (ARM processors and Microcontrollers). One of my favorite embedded projects includes the – Arduino, UDOO, Cubieboard, CuBox, BeagleBoard , TI’s Zigbee and TI’s Piccolo Controlstick. Coming from a Electrical and Computer Engineering background – all I can say is that “we are now living in the best times in human innovation and there is so much to learn and so little time.”