About the Author
Pradeeban Kathiravelu is an open source evangelist. He is a Ph.D. researcher at INESC-ID
Lisboa/Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and Universite
Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He is a Fellow of Erasmus Mundus Joint Degree in
Distributed Computing (EMJD-DC), researching a software-defined approach to quality of
service and data quality in multi-tenant clouds.
Pradeeban holds a master of science degree, Erasmus Mundus European Master in
Distributed Computing (EMDC), from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal and KTH Royal
Institute of Technology, Sweden. He also holds a first class bachelor of science in
engineering (Hons) degree, majoring in computer science and engineering, from the
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. His research interests include Software-Defined
Networking (SDN), distributed systems, cloud computing, web services, big data in
biomedical informatics, Network Functions Virtualizations (NFV), and data mining. He is
very interested in free and open source software development and has been an active
participant in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program since 2009, as a student and as a
mentor.
Pradeeban has published several conference papers and co-authored a few book chapters.
He has also worked on OpenDaylight Cookbook and Learning OpenDaylight as a technical
reviewer. Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition (2017) is his first book as an
author, and he is quite excited about it.
I would like to thank my readers for the interest in the book. Please feel free to contact me if
you need any assistance in the topics or the recipes, beyond what we have discussed in the
book. I would like to thank the entire editorial team at Packt, including Abhishek Jadhav,
Rahul Nair, and Mohd Riyan Khan. I would like to extend my thanks to the Linux
Foundation for their open source projects on softwarization of networks and systems. I
would like to thank my friends and colleagues who helped me in various ways. I would like
to thank Prof. Luís Veiga (INESC-ID Lisboa), my MSc and Ph.D. advisor, for sharing his
wisdom and encouragement throughout my stay in Instituto Superior Técnico. I would
like to thank him for being my mentor since 2012. I would also like to thank Prof. Ashish
Sharma (Emory University, Atlanta) for his guidance and motivation.
My special thanks go to my loving wife, Juejing Gu. This book would not be a reality
without her continuous support and creative suggestions. Her tireless efforts helped me
always be on time without missing the deadlines.
I would like to thank my mom, Selvathie Kathiravelu, for her support.
