Fuad Malikov is a co-founder of Hazelcast, a Java-based, open-source operational in-memory computing platform. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences, as well as local user groups. He loves helping leading organizations build low latency, scalable and highly available distributed systems.

His employment portfolio includes his time as an IT consultant to the telecommunications sector, IT architect at IBM, Java developer, and so on. Malikov holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering.