Speaker Bio:  

Rajgopal Kishore
VP & Global Head of Business Intelligence, HCL Technologies
An accomplished executive with over 20 years of experience, Rajgopal has proven track record of leadership in demand creation, team leadership and solution creation in consulting. Currently appointed as the Vice President and Global Head of Business Intelligence at HCL Technologies, Rajgopal has a degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. His specialties include Technology evaluation and selection, alliance partner management, Business and technology architecture, Analytics and business intelligence, Business case development, Outsourcing and offshoring among others. He has strong community service orientation and has founded a non-profit organization to support 200 students through school and college in Bangalore. Rajgopal also blogs at http://www.b-eye-network.in/blogs/kishore/
Rajesh Ramachandran
GM - Head of IPC, eBay India Product Center
Rajesh currently heads the eBay India Development Center - strategic innovation arm of eBay Inc. He has 18 years of Software R&D experience in building world-class global product organizations, delivering innovative and successful products. Prior to joining eBay, Rajesh was playing the role of Senior Product Director with Oracle Fusion Middleware R&D Group. In the past, he played various technical leadership roles at Siemens AG, Future Software and Lakshmi-Barmag AG. He is a well-known speaker in the areas of Enterprise 2.0, Grid, enterprise architecture, innovation and leadership. He holds a Masters in computer science from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, an MBA from IIMB and ICFAI, and Bachelors in Electronics Engg from A.C.Tech, Karaikudi.
Amit Aggarwal
Co Founder and CTO, VIA
Amit has more than 10 years of experience in architecting, designing and developing scalable Java Solutions for VIA, one of the largest travel company in India. Amit has a background from the automotive industry having worked in Ford and Daimler Chrysler. He has worked as the head of Metrics and Data analytics for their retail website. He is keen about data analytics and metric space and has extensive knowledge of front end technologies. Amit is a Computer Science Graduate from IIT, Roorkee, where he topped his class and has been awarded the President of India Gold Medal for versatility and overall excellence.
Madhusudan KM
Chief Architect & Head - Central Architecture Grp, Mindtree
Madhusudhan K.M is the Chief Architect, Head –Central Architecture Group, IT Services,at MindTree.He joined Mindtree 3 years ago, previously he worked for Misys, Singapore Airlines and BEML India. He is a BE graduate in Electronics & Communication from Mysore University and has done his M.Tech in Software Engineering from NUS, Singapore. Madhusudhan has more than 19+ years of experience and his key skills and strengths include Enterprise Architecture & SOA, Architecting complex enterprise applications using heterogeneous technologies, Technical Architecture experience using C/C++, Java/J2EE, BPEL, Workflow & Webservices, Framework Definition and realization, Airline domain knowledge, Applied research on emerging technologies to name a few.
Prashanth K Nageshappa
Senior Technical Leader -Java Technology Center, IBM India Software Labs
Prashanth is a senior technical leader in Java Technology Center, with 12 years of experience at IBM India Software Labs,Bangalore. He specializes in several JDK/JVM components like Just In Time Compiler,Garbage,Collector,Interpreter, Classloader & Class Libraries. He has focused technical acumen in problem determination and analysis of complex customer scenarios. His special interests include studying implications of Multi-Core and Virtualization technologies on JVM behavior and performance.
Sangeetha S
Principal – Education & Research, E-Commerce Research Labs
Sangeetha S is a Principal – Education & Research with E-Commerce Research Labs, Infosys. She has over 12 years of experience in the design and development of Java and Java EE applications. She has co-authored a book on J2EE Architecture and written numerous articles for JavaWorld, java.net and DevX.
Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni
Head- Software Engineering research lab, SETLabs
Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni leads the Software Engineering research lab at SETLabs. He specializes in Web services, Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management and Grid technologies. He has been selected in the Whos Who in the Asia 2007 first edition and Whos Who in the World 2009 edition. He serves on the editorial board of journals and program committees for several international conferences. He has presented thought papers at international conferences including AAAI, ICWS, SCC, GITMA, APSEC and ISEC. Currently, Dr. Srinivas is the chairperson of the ACM Bangalore chapter.
Lalit Bhatt
Technical Architect, Spiderlogic
Lalit has over 11 years of experience in software development. He specializes in Java based enterprise/web application development. He has worked with renowned MNCs like UGS, EDS, T-Systems and has played the role from Software developer to Development Manager. Currently he is working as a Technical Architect with Spider Logic. He is a Spring source certified and Sun certified Java Programmer.Lalit is a Indo-German DAAD scholarship holder for his Master thesis in University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He is a Mtech( Hons) from IIT Delhi and has various Java publications to his credit.
Senthil Chinnaiyan
Senior Architect (JEE), Collabera
Senthil Chinnaiyan is a Senior Architect (JEE) with Collabera. He has more than twelve years of experience which includes experience with one of the top consulting companies. He has helped clients develop enterprise applications, technology architecture, technology suggestion and future roadmap. He has experience with the complete life cycle of technology analysis and implementation of projects in various industries such as Financial, US Federal Agencies and Cross industries. Senthil Chinnaiyan holds a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science from CIT, Bharathiar University
Chandra Ramachandran
Technical Architect (JEE), Collabera
Chandra Ramachandran is a Technical Architect (JEE) in Collabera. He has over 7 years of experience in IT. He has worked majorly in the areas of Content management, delivery and Search engines. He has experience in the complete software lifecycle, using a variety of technologies. He is also a vivid Android enthusiast. Chandra holds a Bachelors of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.
Srikanth Seshadri
Lead Consultant, Thoughtworks
Srikanth Seshadri has more than 12 years of experience in the software industry, primarily in the Java SE/ Java EE and integration space; currently working as a Lead Consultant at Thoughtworks. Srikanth has architected and implemented solutions on various application servers/frameworks and SOA based products.
Saldin Samuel
Manager,Platform Quality Engineering, eBay
Saldin has more than 11 years of Software Development and Quality Engineering experience primarily on Rapid Application Development environment. Having vast experience on Oracle Products primarily on Oracle Forms, Reports, JDeveloper and Application Development Framework (ADF), he involved in delivering innovative solutions to simplify application development and automating end to end user experience. He manages Platform Quality Engineering organization at India Product Center, eBay Inc. Prior to eBay, he spent most of his career at Oracle, Bangalore where he evangelized and architected an automation framework for Oracle JDeveloper. He had participated in many technical conferences including Oracle Open World, Developer Days, Sun Tech Days and Great Indian Developer Summit. He also trained many engineers on Application Development Framework.
Rajkumar Chandrasekaran
Senior Development Manager & Innovation Lead, eBay
Raj has 13+ years of experience in conceiving, architecting and building web-enabled desktop applications, as well as scalable enterprise level products for some of the eCommerce, Storage and Telecom giants like eBay, EMC, Verizon etc. He currently manages couple of product development teams at eBay. Raj has extensive experience in wide range of technologies across tiers and specializes in Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Workflow, Rule Engines, Single Page Interfaces, JS, Flex etc. He has also contributed few projects to the open source world in the past. He holds a B.E(Hons) degree from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani.
Vivekanand Jha
Product Consultant, Thoughtworks
After his BTech at IIT Madras, Vivekanand has worked as a performance engineer for various enterprise class Java applications at Sterling Commerce, Azul Systems, Infosys and ThoughtWorks. At Azul, Vivekanand got a chance to work with some of the original creators of Java and gain in-depth knowledge of JVMs and Garbage collection. At ThoughtWorks, he helps clients scale their JVMs to massive levels. He has been a regular speaker on JVM related topics at Bangalore Open Java User Group, Verisign KM, etc.
Revathi R
Senior Architect, Sonata Software
Revathi R has more than 10 years of experience in architecting, designing and developing Java, JEE and SOA Solutions for different domains including Telecom, Insurance and Utility Sector. Her interests lie in Server side Technologies, SaaS Applications and SOA Governance. She primarily drives the Java/SOA team at Sonata and is involved in various technological initiatives and regular training activities.