Praseed Pai is a software engineering/re-engineering professional with good business acumen, technical competency, and software engineering skills. He has presented on various topics in more than two hundred technical events in the last decade and half. His areas of interest include software architecture, design patterns, domain-specific languages, engineering software development, computer graphics, and machine learning. Currently, he is associated with the UST global as a senior solutions architect in their consulting division. He is also the primary force behind the SLANGFORDOTNET compiler infrastructure, which has been ported to VB.NET (CLR), Java (JVM), C++ (LLVM), Python, JavaScript, and Ruby. He lives in the city of Kochi with his wife and two kids.
Shine Xavier is a core software engineering practitioner with an extreme passion for designing/building software solutions, application frameworks, and accelerators that help maintain productivity, code quality, performance, and security. His areas of interest include functional programming, interpreters, JavaScript library development, visual programming, algorithms, performance engineering, automation, enterprise mobility, IoT and machine learning. He is currently associated with UST Global as a senior architect, where he continues to provide technical leadership in customer engagements, pre-sales, practice development, product development, innovation, and technology adoption. He lives with his wife and three kids in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
