I would like to acknowledge the people who helped me achieve my goals at different stages of my life and become a person I am today. Firstly I thank my parents my mother Latha Immaneni, my father Ranga Immaneni, my brother Aditya Immaneni and my grand mother Rama Devi for their love, affection and support in good times and bad. The blessings of my late grand father Rama Rao and late grand mother sundari devi have always been with me. I thank my math teacher in high school Ramana Murthy sir for giving me the guidance and teaching me advanced math for the entrance of IIT which is the best engineering school in India. I thank my physics sir Dr Ramakrishna, chemistry madam Nirmala Chakravarthy who gave me coaching in 11th and 12th and Vishwanathan sir who coached me in 11th for IIT and helped my acheive a high rank in the entrance. I am thankful to ramakrishna sir and chemistry madam for having coached my in my 12th even though they had less resources and time. My friends lokesh and anil are a very important part of my life for I have spent my life's joyful teen years with them and we have gone through a lot together. My professor in undergrad Dr Devendra Jelihal provided me with the best of the opputunities for learning linux and enhancing my computer knowledge. I thank him for offering me a communications project which allowed me to work on various interesting fields including communications, networking, system programming, algorithms, real time protocols, real time operating systems and in process learn a lot. My advisor in masters Dr Jeffrey M Capone who is now my current boss at Aligo is my mentor and is a like an elder brother to me. He has been and is my architect of success in the recent times. I thank alper turgut for the good advice he gives me from time to time. The good times I had working together with alper, david, jeff, kiran and manjunath krishnam at the incipient stages of aligo are a sweet memory I reckon often. A special mention to all the friends with whom I had/still have wonderful philosophical and scientific discussions which typically ran late into the night namely my undergrad friends, ravi, vinod, manju m.h. A warm mention to my close friends/colleagues kishore, tippu, mahesh, sundeep, hari, gops, naveen, sheryl, shoffman, davin, jordan, eric and jason.