Nitesh Kant is a veteran in design and development of reliable distributed systems with over 15 years of experience in this space. He is a core contributor of ServiceTalk, an open source networking library for the JVM that supports multiple protocols including gRPC. Previously, he has been involved in other open source projects like Netflix’s Eureka; service discovery system, RxNetty; reactive networking library. He has given talks on reactive, asynchronous networking libraries at conferences like Strangeloop, QCon, etc. List of his talks can be found at https://speakerdeck.com/niteshkant