Siva Kumar is a Senior Lecturer from a university in his home-country Malaysia. He is on study leave to pursue PhD in Software Engineering. His research interests are Agile Software Engineering, Agile Project Management, Object-oriented Technique, Extreme Programming and Teaching/Learning computer programming. He has 12 years of experience in corporate training involving Java Programming, .NET Technology (C#.NET, VB.NET, C++.NET Managed Extension, etc).

Siva is doing a PhD and supervised by JamesNoble and PetraMalik and his project is looking at Distributed Agile Projects using Grounded Theory.