About the Reviewers

Soumen Chandra Laha has been working as a senior embedded design engineer at Wine Yard Technologies since 2008. He started his career as a quality control engineer and gradually became an embedded design engineer. He has been working in the field of embedded systems and has industry experience of more than 6 years in various domains, including automotive, consumer electronics, healthcare, and so on. He has hands-on experience in various microcontrollers and microprocessors, such as 8051, PIC, AVR, PSoC, ARM Cortex, ARM7, ARM9, ARM11, and the TI-DSP microcontroller. He has development exposure to embedded Linux and Windows CE and knows how to port real-time operating systems on various ARM platforms.

He is an electronic hobbyist and designer and believes in continuous learning. His strengths lie in developing, maintaining, integrating, and debugging large sized C code of applications and system-level embedded software designs.

Maryala Srinivas is the founder and managing director of Wine Yard Technologies, which was founded in 2006. He has over 10 years of experience in the field of advanced embedded systems design and development. He is a passionate and enthusiastic entrepreneur. His passion to become an entrepreneur made him reject a great job offer from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), where he was to work for the signaling department in the R&D Division. He is associated with Junior Chamber International, India and Hyderabad Directors/CEO's Forum (HDCF). He received the Indira Gandhi Sadbhavana Award in 2012 for outstanding services, achievements, and contributions to the nation in the field of science and technology.

Many of his articles are published in national and international journals and technical magazines. He has addressed several technical conferences and seminars in the field of embedded systems and RTOS design. He was recognized as the star speaker at EFY Design Engineers' Conference, held at New Delhi in March 2012. Many of the faculty members from universities such as NITs, JNTU, AU, and OU and other private engineering colleges benefited immensely by the technology talent transformation workshops conducted by him at Wine Yard Technologies. The Wine Yard team led by him has achieved many milestones. More than 100,000 students and over 400 professionals, including the teaching faculty from universities and many working engineers, have immensely benefited from the talent transformation programs.