Gaurab Dey has over 8 years of experience in software engineering. He holds an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida and a B.Tech in Information Technology. His technical skills include programming languages like Java, Scala, Python, and C/C++ as well as technologies like Linux, databases, web servers, and development tools. He has worked as a senior software engineer at VISA and Ciena, an intern at Pivotal and BlackBerry, and a research assistant. His areas of focus have included distributed systems, cloud computing, automation testing, and network protocols. He has also completed personal projects involving price comparison, Hadoop, distributed debugging, and distributed hash tables.