About the Author

Yogesh Chavan is a Linux enthusiast and open source promoter, living in Pune, India. He has now been teaching operating systems, device drivers, and embedded systems in colleges and institutes for more than three years. These include the computer science department of Pune University, Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR) college, and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) institute. He has about six years of experience in the software industry. His previous industrial role was of a software maintenance engineer at Red Hat Software Services.

Yogesh has overseen many engineering projects under GEEP (http://www.geeksofpune.in). He has given many talks at the annual open source event, GNUnify (http://gnunify.in).

Yogesh enjoys cutting edge technologies. He is a hardware hobbyist who likes playing with smartphones, tablets, routers, and Arduino. He is big fan of Android and various Linux distributions. He has compiled and modified kernel and firmwares for many phones and routers. He wishes to be a humble contributor to the open source world.