Raju Gandhi is a software craftsman with almost 20 years of hands-on experience scoping, architecting, designing, and implementing full stack applications. A full-time consultant, published author, internationally known public speaker, and trainer, he provides a 360-degree view of the development cycle. He's proficient in a variety of programming languages and paradigms, experienced with software development methodologies, and an expert in infrastructure and tooling. His long pursued hermeticism across the development stack by championing immutability during development (with languages like Clojure), deployment (leveraging tools like Docker and Kubernetes), and provisioning and configuration via code (using toolkits like Ansible, Terraform, Packer, and "everything as code"). In his spare time, you'll find Raju reading, playing with technology, or spending time with his wonderful (and significantly better) other half.