Balamurali Ananthan received a M.S in Computer Science in 2003 from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago where his area of specialization was Computer Networking and Telecommunications. Mr. Ananthan received his undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Government College of Technology at Coimbatore, India in 2000. Mr. Ananthan has almost 4 years of experience as a software developer, including work in large enterprise environments and National Laboratories.

Mr. Ananthan joined Argonne National Labs as a research intern where he worked closely with the Globus Development team and developed applications based on Open Grid Service Architecture for Fusion Grid in collaboration with scientists at Argonne National Labs, Princeton Plasma Physics Labs and General Atomics Laboratory. The software that was developed during the research provides a reliable Application Service based on a Service Level Agreement, which promises a crisp end-to-end QoS in the Grid Environment. Mr. Ananthan's core expertise is in Java, Grid Services and Web Services development in particular. Mr. Ananthan joined Tech-X in the February of 2004.