Fredrik Svarén is Development Manager at SmartBear Software, specifically for the company’s API Readiness framework, Ready! API. He combines more than 20 years of experience as a software developer and architect with coaching and management skills to enable teams to deliver high quality software on time. He was previously an IT project consultant with Erik Penser Bankaktiebolag. He held various engineering positions with Orc Group AB, previously Orc Software AB, for more than 12 years.

Shadid Chowdhury is a Senior Software Developer at SmartBear Software. He focuses on service virtualization product at SmartBear Software, the leader in software quality tools for the connected world. Shadid has been working at SmartBear for nearly four years, he is also a major contributor to SoapUI, open source tool for API testing. Shadid enjoys building quality software keeping user needs and goals on top. Shadid is passionate about understanding the user and user needs, especially the testers community and how to make better tools for them. Most recently, he has been spending lot of time developing the virtualization tool for REST and SOAP Apis.

Shadid has more than 9 years of development experience and has a master’s degree in Distributed Systems from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). Shadid lives in Stockholm, with his wife and three year old daughter. In the free time Shadid enjoys being a programming mentor, taking part in social activities and reading up on almost everything.