Vikram Vaswani is a founder and experienced developer advocate with 11+ years in professional software roles and over 25 years working in open source and LAMP-stack development. He runs Melonfire, which began as a technical-content studio and evolved into a turnkey open source product consultancy serving global clients like IBM, VMware and Bitnami. An author of seven best-selling technical books and 550+ programming tutorials, he combines deep hands-on engineering—able to read and implement code across languages—with scalable docs-as-code and developer-relations expertise. He’s designed high-availability clustered systems handling hundreds of thousands of users per hour and has been an IBM Cloud Champion (2017–2024). With an MBA from Oxford and a background advising both startups and enterprises, he uniquely blends product strategy, content craft, and technical delivery to help SMEs adopt open source at scale.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) at University of Mumbai - St. Xavier's College
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