Introducing Rupesh “Mad Scientist” Kumar and Hemant “Pointy Haired Boss” Khandelwal

Rupesh, of Coldfused? fame, is finally back to blogging, after having cranked out a final version of the CFThread POC. He’s one of the smartest guys I know, and is at least partially to blame for hiring me to the CF team… ;-)

Check out his entries on Handling J2EE Sessions with Cookies Disabled and JRun Threadpool Settings.

Like Hemant (get a blog, dude!) Khandelwal, the manager on our team, he came to Macromedia from Pramati, an Indian software product company that set out to create a JEE application server. While the Pramati technology is great stuff, it proved difficult for them to make it in a market already crowded with JEE application servers, especially when going up against the likes of IBM and BEA. During his time there, Rupesh worked on a lot of the hard security problems, so whenever we have to deal with things like HTTPS and certificate management, he’s our go-to guy.

And speaking of Hemant, he’s no slouch in the technical department either - he was responsible for the first commercial EJB 2.0 compliant container, in the Pramati JEE server, and has served on the EJB specification committee. While he does enjoy whipping us lazy louts to get some work done, I know he misses coding…