Speaker Bio:  

Deshabandhu Bar
J2EE Architect, IBM Global Services
Deshbandhu has 14+ years of experience in IT Industry out of which 9 years of experience in Product, Application and Framework Architect, Database Architect, BOXI integration, Jasper Integration, Design and Development using Java, J2EE, SOA, ESB, Oracle Business Rule, BPM, Oracle Database, BOXI and Jasper.
Jayateerth Kanihal
Advanced Architect, Mphasis
Jayateertha, a Senior Architect with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry covering verticals like Banking, CRM, Telecom and Integrated Justice domains. Had the opportunity to work & contribute in an upcoming Indian Mobile service provider & was part of success story in delivering Data applications on to the Low cost Mobile devices way back in 2002-03. Experienced in managing/handling/delivering migration/porting of J2EE applications covering Banking & CRM enterprise applications on to multiple application server platforms, OS’s and databases. Strong expertise in developing applications in J2EE Platform using Java Stack as well as third party frameworks like Hibernate and Spring Frameworks etc. Worked at New York State Division of Criminal Justice services integrated portal environment helping the state agency in migrating from legacy systems to J2EE platform.
Ramesh Rajamani
Senior Technical Lead, Infinite
Ramesh has over 11 years of design, development, testing and production experience and 8+ years of Java design and development experience.
Anurag Gupta
Senior Architect, Yahoo!
Anurag conceptualizes, architects and builds innovative software that scales to hundreds of millions of users and has 18 years experience at Intel, Amazon, Facebook and Yahoo. He was one of the early employees at Intel working on software and was part of the core team that pushed Intel processors into servers to create a multi-billion dollar business. He received Intel Achievement Award - Intel’s highest honor - thrice.
Shekhar Gulati
OpenShift Evangelist, Red Hat
Shekhar is an OpenShift Evangelist working with Red Hat. He speaks about OpenShift at various conference and user groups around the world. Shekhar is an active writer and has written many technical articles for IBM Developer Works, Developer.com, and JavaLobby. His current interests are NoSQL databases and cloud computing, mainly Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and new things happening in Java community.
Pragati Ogal Rai
Mobile Technology Evangelist, PayPal
Pragati Ogal Rai is a technologist with over 12 years of experience in different aspects of mobile technology including mobile operating systems, mobile security, mobile payments, and m-commerce. From working as a platform security engineer with Motorola Mobility to designing and developing PayPal’s mobile offerings, she has extensive end-to-end experience in all aspects of mobile technology. She is a frequent and recognized speaker at international technology events.
Basav Nagur
Software Architect, McKinsey
Basav is a software technologist with more than a decade of experience in software analysis, design and programming. His primary area of expertise is architecting and application development with modern web technologies on Java platform. He is currently working as a IT Architect for Mckinsey & Company. His focus areas are Full stack development (Angular JS, Java, Spring, Play, Clojure etc), Client liaison, Architecture, Estimation, Delivery.
Samarth Bhargava
Vice President, Goldman Sachs
Samarth is an Enterprise Java Architect with over 10 years of experience in building large scale web applications and SOA platforms. He is also an expert in Performance Engineering with extensive hands-on experience in troubleshooting production performance problems. His areas of interest include SOA, Spring Stack, MongoDB, Solr and JavaScript based application development.
Prabakaran Natarajan
Senior Architect - Technology, Cognizant
Prabakaran has over 12 years of IT experience, primarily in Java/JEE and SOA technologies. He has built a variety of Java applications which include Web based, Cloud, Android, SaaS, PaaS and BI apps and has also involved in many performance turning activities, writing optimal Oracle SQL and PL/SQL. He has researched Java app deployment on many cloud based PaaS platforms including Amazon Beanstalk, Google App Engine, Cloud Foundry and Jelastic.
Kumaragurubaran Velmurugan
Technical Lead, Cisco
Kumaragurubaran has more than a decade of IT experience. He has 7 years of experience in requirements gathering, system analysis, design, programming and application development along with strong leadership & team leading skills. His expertise lies in OCAP based Middleware stack for the Set-Top-Boxes (STB) implemented using Java, JNI and C. He was instrumental in implementing various functionalities and features required by the OCAP stack to support channel viewing experience, digital video recording (DVR) functionality & Reliability, Switched Digital Video (SDV), Video On Demand (VOD), Enhanced TV (ETV) etc., He was also instrumental in optimizing the performance of the OCAP Java Middleware stack as a whole and specific scenarios & use cases.
Krishna Chaitanya P
Technical Architect, Collabera
Krishna has extensive experience in spanning product development, application development as well as technology architecture & consulting, having worked with large fortune 1000 companies in his career. He is currently working as Technical Architect-Java with Collabera Labs. Krishna is responsible for solution architecture, technology based innovation & building intellectual property based assets, frameworks for accelerated application development.
Falguni Vyas
Solutions Architect, GlobalLogic
Falguni Vyas has over 12 years of experience in the design and development of software for VoIP, E-Commerce and Retail domains. She is experienced in the architecture of cloud based Java web applications and their supporting infrastructures and has provided end-to-end solutions for a variety of Java applications using Struts, Spring, Hibernate, REST and related frameworks.
Nataraja Neelakanta
Technical Staff Member, PayPal
Nataraja is having a decade of experience in various software industry flavors including product development, software services using Java, J2EE technologies. Domain experience ranges from Supply Chain Management, Investment Banking and Payments. Currently working with PayPal as Technical Staff Member.
Chandan Kumar
Computer Scientist, Adobe Systems
Chandan is a technology enthusiast with extensive experience in server side programming on Java platform. His primary area of expertise include compilers, runtime, web services, caching and multithread. His focus area is complete web technology stack including HTML5, frameworks, middlewares and backends. Currently he is working as Computer Scientist with ColdFusion product team at Adobe Systems.
Anirban Bhattacharya
Senior System Architect, Huawei Technologies
Anirban is having more than a decade of experience and is working for last 12 years in the telecom software industry mainly with Java technologies. He is been mainly involved in network management software for Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, Cisco, Huawei.