Muhamad Daud joined Photon with 10 years of experience in architecting scalable high performance system. Prior to joining Photon, he was a Principal Engineer at Applied Predictive Technologies where he is heavily involved in all aspects of technical directions of the company. At Applied Predictive Technologies, he is heavily involved in design and development of multiple releases of Analytical Software involving statistical algorithms, GIS calculation, advanced data visualization and integration of various technologies which is used by Fortune 500 companies enabling them to predict the impact of the decisions and maximize their profits. Muhamad Daud founded Infravio along with Mukund and Srinivas in 1999 and was a Principal Engineer at Infravio architecturing all aspects of Infravio's SOA Product Architecture involving multi-threaded query executions, registry based architecture and ESB system. Together, they transformed Infravio into a leading SOA provider. Muhamad has a Master in CS from University Of Pennsylvania where he focused his research on Peer to Peer Distributed Database.