Speaker Bio:  

Chandra Balani
MySQL Database Country Sales Sr. Manager, Oracle
Chandra heads the MySQL Enterprise business for India at Oracle. He started the MySQL business in India for Oracle after the SUN acquisition which includes hiring of partners and distributors for MySQL. He has been working with Oracle from more than 5 years in different roles including Sales, partner management and business development for Oracle’s technology and application products. Chandra is an Engineer with MBA in marketing having overall 15 years of experience in the IT industry.
Omshivprakash H L
Head -Technology & Training, Carmatec
Om is having more than a decade of IT experience with focus on all Technical support, Server administration, System Monitoring, Integration and consolidation, Backup Automation, Disaster recovery Management & Planning, Cloud Computing deployment & setup and other IT infrastructure management services. Om is a Free & OpenSource Software Enthusiast, Multilingual blogger (English, Kannada), Amateur Photographer, Trekker.
Suparna Bhattacharya
Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Research India
Suparna, an Electronics & Communications Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Suparna has been with IBM since 1993, where she has quite enjoyed delving into operating systems and filesystem internals on various platforms. It is now over a decade since she made her foray into the Linux kernel and got introduced to the joys of working on open source. Her contributions to Linux span multiple areas such as block I/O, asynchronous filesystem I/O, direct I/O, kernel dynamic probes, kexec, first failure data capture mechanisms and ext4 filesystem enhancements. Suparna is an elected member of the IBM Academy of Technology and a senior member of IEEE. She has been invited multiple times to chair sessions at the Linux Kernel Summit which is a by-invitation only event where key contributors of the Linux Kernel get together to decide the future roadmap of the Kernel.
Megha Singhvi
Open Source Evangelist, Oracle
Megha is an open source evangelist with detailed working experience on MySQL. She is working as a MySQL technical consultant at MySQL- Oracle India. She looks after the India region. Also, She is MySQL certified.
Jyothi Bacche
Global Head - Open Source Practice, MindTree
Jyothi is having more than two decades of IT experience. Her expertise lies in Linux, Python and many more. She is a regular speaker and talked in the conferences like OSI Days, FOSS and many more.
Vinoo Das
Senior Architect, Wipro Technologies
Over 13 Years of IT experience. He is an Architecture Practitioner, with specific focus on High Performance Solution Architecture at Wipro Technologies.
Divyanshu Verma
Software Engineering Manager, Dell R & D
Divyanshu has more than 14 years of experience in Software Industry. He has extensively worked in product and services based organizations where he has contributed in project/program management, relationship building, acquisition strategies and due diligence, new market development, offshoring and outsourcing strategies, brand building, new business development, organization restructuring and vendor management. He has led teams in fortune 50 organizations and has also worked with startup organization. At present Divyanshu focuses on delivery and growth of enterprise class Linux Servers on Dell PowerEdge platforms and leads implementation of organization wide innovation initiatives. His areas of expertise are OpenStack orchestration, Device Driver development, embedded Linux. Divyanshu holds multiple patents and has authored nation and international whitepapers. Divyanshu is an e-GMP alumnus of IIM Bangalore and holds a Master Degree from IIT Delhi.
Shubham Nagar
Co-founder & Director, InfoAxon Technologies
Shubham comes with around 14 years of IT experience in diverse geographies and industries including Telecom, Public Sector and International Development. Shubham Nagar focuses mainly on managing the growth, business strategy and identifying new Business opportunities for InfoAxon. Shubham is one of the directors and founding member of the company. He also maintains the top few customer relationships with InfoAxon European and US customers. A computer Engineer by education, Shubham has rich experience of working in multiple roles such as Project Management,Technical Architecture and I.T. Business Development across the world. Over the years Shubham has been involved in making InfoAxon a leading provider of Open Source Integration solutions.
Vivek Kumar Singh
Open Source Evangelist, Independent Developer
Vivek has close to 16 years of experience in IT where he saw himself transformed from C/C++ Developer to Big Data Architect. He has worked for companies like Infosys, Oracle, Business Objects, SEIBEL, Yahoo in the past. For last 6 years, he has been architecting system to handle massive data pipe line and delve out information from it. An avid Open Source evangelist, his interests include Business Intelligence & Big data analytics. A graduate from IIT Kanpur, Vivek is an avid reader and has authored a book The Reverse Journey.
Sanjay Manwani
Senior Software Development Manager, Oracle
Sanjay is a veteran in computer technology with over 20 years of experience. He has been managing and working closely with database technologies for the past eight years. He has been a speaker at multiple Oracle events, talking mostly about backup technologies. Currently, he manages the MySQL enterprise backup team, which is distributed across three continents.
Varadarajan V
Chief Architect-Open Source & Emerging Technologies Practice, Mindtree
Varadarajan V is the Chief Architect in "Open Source & Emerging Technologies Practice" at Mindtree. With overall experience of 20 years in IT Industry, in his current role as chief architect, he focuses on Architecting Solutions based on Open Source Technologies in ecommerce and Content Management solution domains. He also drives practice initiatives in emerging technologies such HTML5, social computing & Big data processing.
Regunath Balasubramanian
Principal Architect, Flipkart.com
Regunath is an architect, developer and mentor with a career span of 16 years. He is currently responsible for building long term technology vision across Customer Platform teams at Flipkart. Prior to Flipkart, he was Chief Architect at MindTree where he played a number of roles including leading an Architecture services group, building IP based solutions and implementing large scale systems; notable among them was architecting the Govt. of India&rsquot;s Aadhaar project - the world&rsquot;s largest biometric identity database.
Ram Chinta
Director of Engineering - Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix Systems
Ram joined Citrix through the acquisition of Cloud.com. Ram started Cloud.com’s India development center, and currently manages Citrix CloudPlatform engineering teams in India. Prior to Cloud.com, Ram held engineering and engineering leadership roles at various distributed infrastructure, internet and mobile computing companies including Netscape, Openwave, Seven Networks and Microsoft. Ram holds a MS in Computer Science from Iowa State University and a B.Tech in Computer Science from JNTU College of Engineering, Hyderabad.
Ashutosh Bapat
Technical Architect - PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB
Ashutosh works on PostgreSQL and related products in EnterpriseDB. He is a member of Postgres-XC Development Group and a core member of Postgres-XC development team. He has contributed in the areas of distributed query processing, scalability, procedural languages. He has a long experience in RDBMS development with special exposure to distributed RDBMS.
Ram Kumar LK
Founder & Director, Bhea Knowledge Technologies
Ram comes with an 15 years of overall IT experience out of which 8 years as Entrepreneur. His expertise lies in providing solutions to built on Open Source Technologies like SugarCRM, Joomla CMS, MagentoeCommerce and Asterisk PBX.
Varun Gaur
Head - Center of Excellence for Open Source BI, HCL Technologies
Varun has been an open source geek since his formative years of career. He has contributed in many large BI implementations and has been an active community member in Open Source BI world. Currently he heads the Center of Excellence for Open Source BI at HCL Technologies and very closely observing the paradigm shift in the area of OSBI.
Divya Mahajan
Manager Sales - South India, EnterpriseDB
Divya is the manager sales for EnterpriseDB managing sales for South India. She has more than 5 years of experience and has worked in TCS and Oracle prior to joining EnterpriseDB. She comes from a background in database management and pre sales.