He started implementing Spring MVC portlets in Liferay 4.3.1 in Februray 2008. He has four years experience with Liferay portal technology. He has worked on 14 projects that use the Liferay portal framework. His positions have been Liferay developer, senior consultant and project architect. He is familiar with technologies used in Liferay including Hibernate, Spring, Ehcache, Struts, JSF, ICEfaces and Vaadin API. He has implemented web service and configured websites using the latest version of Liferay portal. He has been working in Liferay for more than two years. He has executed projects using Liferay in various domains like Construction, Financial and Medical fields providing solutions like Collaboration, Enterprise Content Management, and Web Content Management systems. He has created a free and open source Google Chartlet plugin for Liferay which has been downloaded and used by people across 90 countries as per sourceforge statistics. Samir Bhatt is an Enterprise Architect with over 12 years of IT experience. He has been working on Liferay-Portal-based solutions for the last four years. He has co-authored a book, Liferay Beginner's Guide by Packt Publishing. He is also a Liferay certified trainer and has delivered public and private training across the world. Samir leads an architectural group at CIGNEX Datamatics. He extensively worked on performance tuning of Liferay-Portal-based solutions. Apart from Liferay Portal, Samir has also worked on many other technologies and frameworks including Hadoop, MongoDB, Pentaho BI, Oracle, Java Swing, ICEfaces, ZK, Spring, Hibernate, and Visual Basic. Samir is also a very good speaker and has delivered various webinars on Liferay, Pentaho BI, and MongoDB. He blogs at www.connect-sam.com.
