Dash Desai has over 14 years of extensive hands-on web application design and development experience. His software experience spans working on large projects for the State of Tennessee and Colorado to writing abstraction layer for a VOIP company in Mountain View, CA to leading Facebook integration efforts for a gaming startup in San Francisco, CA and then working for a digital health startup in Palo Alto, CA.

As a Developer Evangelist at Aerospike, Inc., he writes blog posts, sample code, tutorials, training material, and conducts workshops about technologies that he is passionate about. He also frequents meetups/events around the world.

He has participated in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle – from understanding end user and customer requirements to implementing solutions based on feedback, knowledge and market awareness.

He lives in San Jose, California with fiancee Claire and her daughter Eva. His other passions are traveling and nature photography.