Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas is a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems. His general area is in distributed systems, with a specialization in mobility and security. He has spoken on a variety of technical topics at conferences around the world and teaches graduate classes in the evening. He publishes a standards column and represents Sun at a number of standards bodies. He also serves in the organizing committee for several industry-wide technical conferences. Rags brings with him about 15 years of software development experience. He worked for Digital Equipment Corporation before joining Sun. He has worked on several technology areas, including internals of VMS, Unix and NT. Rags holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Center of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He enjoys running, hiking and eating, especially spicy food.