About the author

Damodar Chetty is a lifelong programmer with almost two decades in the computer software industry. During that period he’s worked in a variety of languages, tools, and technologies, journeying from programming in assembly language, all the way through to Java and Ruby, making some interesting side trips along the way.

He has also been fortunate to have worked in a number of Fortune 500 organizations, and to have engaged with a number of world class software engineers, all of which have helped him perfect his craft.

He is also the recipient of the US Department of Interior Information Technology award for 2001.

Damodar has an undergraduate degree in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Bombay and graduate degrees in Management Sciences from the University of Goa and in Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota.

He is the owner of Software Engineering Solutions, Inc., a provider of Java EE web development consulting services. He is an avid blogger on his web site at www.swengsol.com.

He currently lives in Woodbury, Minnesota with his wife Devi, his children Ashwin and Anita, and a passion for photography.