Jonas X. Yuan is a Chief Architect of ForgeLife LLC and an expert on Liferay
Portal, e-commerce, and Content Management Systems (CMS). As an open source
community contributor, he has published fi ve Liferay books from 2008 to 2012.
He is also an expert on Liferay integration with Ad Server OpenX, different search
engines, enterprise content including videos, audio, images, documents, and web
contents, and other technologies, such as BPM Intalio and Business Intelligence
Pentaho, LDAP, and SSO. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University
of Zurich, where he focused on Integrity Control in federated database systems.
He earned his M.S. and B.S. degrees from China, where he conducted research
on expert systems for predicting landslides. Previously, he worked as a Project
Manager and a Technical Architect in Web GIS (Geographic Information System).
He is experienced in Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and has deep,
hands-on skills in J2EE technologies. He developed a BPEL (Business Process
Execution Language) engine called BPELPower from scratch at the NASA data
center. As the chief architect, Dr. Yuan successfully led and launched several
large-scale Liferay/Alfresco e-commerce projects for millions of users each month.
He has worked on the following books: Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets,
2008; Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development, 2009; Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise
Intranets, 2010; Liferay User Interface Development, 2010; Liferay Portal Systems
Development, 2012.
