Robert Chen is an Architect for Liferay Portal projects. He was a computer game developer and a software testing engineer. He holds an MS degree in Computer Science from California State University, San Bernardino. His focus was on online banking applications. He also has a bachelor's degree from Wuhan University, China. Mr. Chen was a QA engineer at VMware, Inc. He later led a team in developing four educational computer games for a Florida school district. He worked on Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Mr. Chen has rich experience in J2EE technologies. He has extensive experience in Content Management Systems (CMS) including Alfreso. He is an expert in web portal technologies. Mr. Chen has hands-on experience in 10 Liferay Portal projects.
Gaurav Barot has worked on Enterprise-level portal development projects in various domains such as media, healthcare, and insurance. He has been working on Liferay for more than three years now. Apart from being involved in full lifecycle of portal development projects, he is also a Certified Liferay Trainer and provides Liferay Trainings worldwide. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering in Information Technologies and Post Graduate Diploma in Network Computing. He has more than six years of industrial experience.
Gaurav is working as a Senior Consultant with CIGNEX Datamatics, a global leader in open source technologies.
Samir Bhatt Samir Bhatt has been working on Liferay for more than two years and is a Liferay certified trainer. He is leading Liferay practice at CIGNEX Datamatics. He is also part of architects panel at CIGNEX Datamatics. He has worked as a Liferay Architect in more than 10 projects. He has conducted many Liferay trainings across the globe. Samir has more than 11 years of IT experience. He delivered solutions in various business domains including telecommunication, retail, healthcare, and media. He has also worked on many other technologies including Pentaho BI, Oracle, Java Swing, ICEfaces, and Visual Basic.
Sandeep Nair has been working on Liferay for more than two years and has overall more than five years of experience in Java and Java EE technologies. He has executed projects using Liferay in various domains such as Construction, Financial, and Medical fields providing solutions such as Collaboration, Enterprise Content Management, Web Content Management systems. He has created a free and open source Google Chartlet plugin for Liferay which has been downloaded and used by people across 90 countries as per Sourceforge statistics. Besides development, consulting, and implementing solutions, he has also been involved in giving trainings in Liferay in other countries. Before he jumped into Liferay, he has had experience in Java and Java EE platforms and had worked in EJB, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Servicemix. He also has experience in using JitterBit, which is an ETL tool. When he is not coding, he loves to read books and write blogs.
Mahipalsinh Rana's stint with portal server technologies started in Sun Microsystems when he started working with Sun Portal Server 7.2. Later Sun became the technology partner of Liferay for development in 5.2.x and he was part of that team. He looked after Internationalization (I18n) and Localization (L10n) of Liferay across various modules. He then joined CIGNEX Technologies as a Liferay Technical Architect and executed more then 10 projects in various domains such as chemical, media, telecommunications. He also enjoys doing Liferay training from time-to-time being a certified trainer from Liferay. He loves exploring other technologies such as BigData and Internationalization (I18n). He has total seven years of Industrial experience.
Mahipal is a very good speaker and has given speeches at various conferences on technical topics. He also writes blogs (http://mahipalrana.blogspot.com/) occasionally and actively participates in the Liferay Community.