Siddique Hameed is a pragmatic technologist currently working on Simplify Commerce (https://simplify.com), a payment gateway platform from MasterCard. During his diverse career roles, hes been crafting software for Fortune 500 companies to startups of industry domains ranging from finance, commerce, social media, telecom, bioinformatics, publishing, and insurance. He is passionate about technology, software and their effects on day-to-day lives. He is a strong believer in open-source software culture and actively contributes to many opensource projects. On times, he speaks at technology events, meetups, and mentor contestants in hackathons. He likes teaching kids and adults in programming, technology and software development, and volunteers on coding initiatives such as Girls Who Code, Code.org, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) programs. In his spare time, he likes traveling, goes on long road trips, and tinker with Raspberry Pi and build DIY gadgets.