Muthukumaran Navaneethakrishnan has over 20 years of experience as a software developer, working with languages such as Java, JavaScript, Clojure, and Golang. Even as he serves in roles such as engineering manager and architect, he continues to engage daily in coding, demonstrating his enduring passion for hands-on software development. His work has been featured by prominent publishers like Leanpub, O'Reilly, and Manning.

In the open-source community, Muthukumaran is highly active, contributing to projects like Spring AI and developing numerous other libraries. He is dedicated to creating proof of concepts, reviewing codebases to enhance scalability, performance, and security, and building tools that improve the developer experience. He specializes in quickly resolving urgent issues, ensuring systems are both robust and efficient.