Ravi Kant Taxali is a computer software developer and technical writer. He has written several books on various topics, such as DOS, Windows, Word, Excel, Visual FoxPro and dBASE. He currently developes software and websites using MySQL/SQL Server, Visual FoxPro, PERL, PHP, JAVA and Microsoft Office. (This website too has been developed by him.)

Born and educated in New Delhi, India, Ravi Kant Taxali has worked in Department of Electroincs (now, Department of Information Technology), Government of India for over 15 years in various positions. His job profile at Department of Electroincs included conducting short term courses on microprocessors, PC software, database desgin and microprocessor based systems. He also writes technical articles and draws cartoons.

Ravi moved to canada with his family in 1997. His family includes his wife Savita (Ritu), sons Ankur and Anuj, and mother Pushpa.