Gireesh Punathil is an IBM master inventor, Senior Technical Staff Member, and committer or steering committee member for several leading open source projects. He is part of IBM Application Runtimes team that develops and supports websphere, java, eclipse and many other tools and frameworks.
He spent a good share of his career in developing, porting and debugging platform tooling software: web servers, virtual machines, compilers, ide, monitoring agents and cloud components. He has spoken at several node.js, java and eclipse conferences and has authored a book on node.js enterprise application development.