Marco Lüthy is a Swiss-born creator, designer, developer, and engineer for Internet-enabled applications and has over 10 years of experience working on projects deployed over the Internet. Occasionally he likes to dabble in content creation of the written and photographic kind. Marco’s current focus is the Tokyo-based Internet media and application development firm Robotag Media, Inc., where he is co-founder and resident factotum working on making many useful, pretty things for us all to use and play with.

Shameera Rathnayaka is an Apache Axis2 committer and a PMC member, and has been actively contributing to several Apache projects for the past few years. He holds a B.Sc. Engineering (Hons) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He first started his open source contributions with the Apache Axis2 project, where he implemented JDK 7 Enum support for Apache Axis2 as well as stream-based high performance solutions for JSON<-->XML lossless transformation. He is a Google Summer of Code participant with Apache Axis2 and Apache Airavata projects and has reviewed the book Instant GSON, Sandeep Kumar Patel, Packt Publishing.

Shameera currently works as a Software Engineer at WSO2 Inc., an open source enterprise middleware company based in Sri Lanka, where he is a member of the WSO2 Carbon team. His main research interests are in distributed computing.