Muktesh is currently working as a Principal Software Engineer for Capital One’s Developer Platform and Emerging Technologies group. He is an open source contributor to 20+ projects and enjoys programming in polyglot. Primarily he is more interested and contributes in Microservices, Cloud, Containerization, Architectures and distributed systems, however lately his focus shifted on lot of automation and machine learning as well. In his free time he likes photography, solving coding challenges, learning from online resources and cooking.

He is a conference junkie (attended multiple conferences) and spoken in various conferences as well(Java One, GDG Conf, InMemory Summit, API Strategy Conference, Docker Con to name a few). He is heavily involved in development and teaching people in various communities (Apache Groups, OpenSource Forums, Docker Mentoring and Java User groups). He has started Sunnyvale Java User group and NorCal Java User group.

In his own words,” I am a distinguished engineer, with :::willingness to learn and curious to know::: attitude. I can code, cook, cheer and care. In short, “nothing special but passionately curious” is my jam”.