He received his B.Stat.(Hons.) and M.Stat. degrees from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India in the years 1994 and 1996 respectively. His interests include application security in general and cryptographic security in particular. His prior experiences include development of a Certification Authority using toolkits from RSA Security Inc., and developing SSL support in DB2 Java Common Client driver. He has been an active participant in the Apache Geronimo project since July 2005.