Speaker Bio:  

Sreedhara Narayanaswamy
Senior Engineering Director, NetApp R&D
Sreed’s primary role at NetApp is to manage the design/development of Core Engineering – Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL), RAID, High Availability & Storage Efficiency at NetApp . He is the executive sponsor for NetApp-Wipro engagement & member of Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) in Cloud Management. He has done his Bachelors in Computer Science & Engineering, MS in Computer Information Systems & MBA in Global Management. He has received three US patents, four patent applications pending in USPTO in the area of Business Optimization Engine (BOE)/Enterprise JavaBeans & 52 patent applications are pending in the area of Business Optimization algorithms, Cloud computing & Data Intelligence. He is a member of W3C & DMTF.
Dr. Vivek Mansingh
President- Collaboration & Communications Group, Cisco India
Dr. Vivek Mansingh is the President, Communication & Collaboration Group at Cisco India. His prior stints were as the Country Head, Dell India R & D Center and MD, Portal Software India. He holds a Ph.D from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada and has done his Executive Business Management Program from Stanford University. He completed his engineering from NIT Allahabad, (Awarded GOLD Medal).He is listed as an honored professional in “National Who’s Who for the United States,” in 2000. He is a Charter Member of TiE. Sought after for speaking engagements on “Leadership” at various companies and Universities across the world. He hold 6 US patents, invented an instrument, patented it and licensed the technology to Cambridge Accusense, Boston. He has published more than 100 technical papers.
Sundara Nagarajan
Director R&D, Storage Works Division, HP
Sundara Nagarajan ("SN") is R&D Director in Storage Works Division, HP India Software Operation, Bangalore. He was also a Distinguished Technologist at HP Enterprise R&D. Prior to joining HP, he held positions at Wipro, Philips, and entrepreneurial startups. He also did R&D assignments at Intel, Tandem (now part of HP) and Xerox Corporation. He serves as a Visiting Professor at International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. SN holds graduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calicut and M.S. (By Research) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is a Certified ScrumMaster, Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the ACM and USENIX. He serves in the Advisory Board of IEEE Computing Now.
Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni
Head- Software Engineering Research lab, SET Labs- Infosys
Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni heads the software engineering research in Infosys Labs. His primary research interests include Service architectures, Cloud Directed Security , and Preventive Software Maintenance. He has a granted US patent and several filed patents. He has a book by Wiley press and several publications in leading conferences and journals in areas of Software engineering, SOA, Web 2.0 and AI. He has spoken at several international and national forums as invited speaker. He is the ACM bangalore chairperson and a founding member of ACM India council.
Janakiram MSV
Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
Janakiram MSV is the Web Services Evangelist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in India. He helps developers, IT professionals, customers and partners understand the value and use the service offerings of AWS cloud platform. His responsibilities include enabling ISVs, SIs and enterprises with the skills to move their IT infrastructure and applications to the Cloud. In his previous role, he was the Technology Architect – Cloud at Microsoft Corporation where he was responsible for architecting enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Cloud Computing platform. He worked for Microsoft Corporation for over 10 years during which he played various roles that involved selling, marketing and evangelizing the Microsoft Application Platform and Tools to customers and partners in India. He has been a regular speaker at events like Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft Developer Days, Great Indian Developer Summit, JAX India and Foss.in.
Sudharshini HS
Senior Systems Engineer, VMware India
In her current role she is a cloud specialist at VMware focusing and driving VMware’s cloud vision. In her tenure at VMware she has been a technical consultant for commercial and enterprise segments in the south. Sudharshini has close to 10 years of experience in server, storage and virtualization technologies. Prior to VMware she was with NetApp for 4 years where she was a consultant and virtualization solution specialist.
Saranya Sriram
Developer Evangelist, Microsoft India
Saranya works as a Developer Evangelist in Microsoft India focusing on Microsoft’s latest cloud services technology. Inherently interested in Microsoft technologies and developer tools, she has spent considerable time in other Microsoft business units in India and Redmond. She is a graduate from BITS Pilani in Computer Science and Masters in Physics. She is passionate about technology, community meetups, presentations, demos and 2 way dialogues. Through upcoming Silicon India, she seeks to reach out to the IT community audiences to make aware of the next generation in software computing , where the future is headed towards; the power and need of software + services through Microsoft’s Azure Services Platform.
Bikram Barman
Senior Engineering Manager, RSA- The Security Division of EMC
Bikram Barman is a seasoned technology and security professional with 15 years of experience. He is currently a Senior Engineering Manager at RSA, The Security Division of EMC leading products and solutions engineering teams focused on Virtualization & Cloud Security. He has been a key contributor to Cloud Security Alliance Guidelines (Virtualization Security in the Cloud). He has also made several contributions as a speaker and writer on Virtualization & Cloud Security. He is also a key member of the Cloud Security Alliance – Bangalore Chapter
Binu Raj
Senior Director - Engineering, Cloud Computing, Yahoo!
Binu Raj is Senior Director, Engineering and heads up the cloud computing engineering for Yahoo in Bangalore. He has been with Yahoo in the US and India for the last 7 years and with Healtheon/WebMD, Seven Networks and HP/Verifone in the past. Binu’s interests include building highly scalable platforms, with a keen interest in distributed computing grids (Hadoop) and elastic cloud platforms.
Ramesh Loganathan
VP Products & Center Head, Progress Software
Ramesh Loganathan, VP (Products) and Center Head of Progress Software in India, is responsible for leading the product development at the India Development center. The development center is organized in a COE (Centre of Expertise) model, where groups own technology horizontals for the company building components for multiple products in each of the horizontals. Present COEs include Eclipse based development tools, web tooling & frameworks and adapters. Apart from providing strategic guidance to all the product teams at PSI, Ramesh also directly drives the Common Technology projects. Prior to Progress, he was the Vice President of Product Engineering & Middleware Technologies at Pramati. Ramesh has been a Member of several Standards Expert groups (JCP, SPEC) including J2EE 1.3. Co-founded ebXMLIndia.org and hyd-eclipse.org, and organizes BarCamps and Startup events. He has co-authored a book on ‘SOA approach to Integration’ and runs a well read blog. An accomplished technologist and orator, Ramesh is an Adjunct Faculty at IIIT, Hyderabad and regularly delivers workshops and seminars in India.
George Chiramattel
Software Architect, Intuit
George Chiramattel is a seasoned technologist who has been in the software industry for 16 years and has a rich experience in designing and developing complex software systems. In his current role as Architect at Intuit, Bangalore, he leads the Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) team which builds and maintains Intuit’s PaaS for Small Business community. Prior to this role, George was the Chief Architect for IRES, which provided on-premise and hosted solutions for the real-estate industry.
Harish Ganesan
Co founder and CTO, 8KMiles
Harish Ganesan is the Co founder and CTO of 8KMiles and is responsible for the overall technology direction of the 8KMiles products and services. Previously, Harish Ganesan was the Chief Architect at SolutionNet (acquired by Vayana), where he directed the architecture and implementation of the companys online banking services across the globe. Harish Ganesan holds a Management degree from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Master of Computer Applications from Bharathidasan University, India.
Ezhil Arasan Babaraj
Director , CSS Labs
Ezhil previously served as the program director and senior solutions architect at CSS labs. He is primarily into research and development, with cloud and its related technologies being his favorite platform. He has been involved in cloud computing for about two years and has done quite a lot in Amazon Web Services Platform.His current focus is on to building private cloud platform for enterprises using various open source tools like Eucalyptus, Xen, KVM etc. He scored the 2nd Rank in Ulitzers Worlds 30 Most influential Cloud Bloggers for year 2009.
Rajasekar Shanmugam
CTO , AppPoint Software Solutions
Having around 7+ years of experience in IT industry, Raj is a lead architect in the solutions group of AppPoint Software Solutions. Prior to being a part of AppPoint, Raj was a part of the core development team at Rational where, he played key roles on various solutions like Rational ClearQuest, Rational Robot and Rational Functional Tester. At Rational, Raj architected the very first functional testing solution for .NET platform. During his tenure, Raj has designed, implemented and lead a team building enterprise solutions on Microsoft and Linux platforms. He was instrumental in architecting solutions that enable integration of various systems, building extensibility to existing solutions that enabled customers to enhance out–of–the–box solutions to meet their specific requirement.Raj has a Bachelor degree from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. Raj was with Tata Infotech Limited for 2 years and was in Japan for a year before moving to Rational Software.
Pratheesh TS
Practice Lead and Principal Solution Architect, Capgemini
Pratheesh is a senior architect currently leading the End user computing and Cloud services practice, Capgemini Infrastructure transformation services. He is currently managing Microsoft Office 365/BPOS, Google Apps, Amazon Web Services and Hybrid cloud solutions as part of cloud services offerings. He has total over 14 years of experience in architecture, design, deployment, planning, implementation and supporting large scale enterprise infrastructure projects. Prior to Capgemini Pratheesh was part of Microsoft Consulting Services and involved in large Microsoft consulting projects including Microsoft BPOS/ Office 365 cloud based solutions. His experience includes sales, solutioning and delivering cloud based solutions.
Rajesh Ramachandran
GM - Head, eBay India
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
Bharati Lele
Head - Innovation Labs, L&T Infotech
Bharati Lele heads the “Innovation Labs” and leads the Cloud Computing CoE at L&T Infotech. Known for her passion for emerging technologies and ability to create leading edge solutions, she has provided the leadership to develop L&T Infotech’s private cloud computing solution. She has 17 Years of Industry experience in software delivery, research and design that helps in developing technology and domain based IPs. She has a B.Tech degree in Electronics and telecommunication and has done her MDP from IIM, Ahmedabad.
Vishal Mathur
Global Solutions Architect- Strategic SI Development, Citrix Systems
Vishal has 12+ years in the IT Industry Architecting Solutions across application, collaboration and infrastructure space. Worked extensively with organizations such as Citrix and Microsoft supporting their Enterprise customers. Currently working at the Citrix Strategic SI Initiative with a mandate to help Indian SI’s to develop and sustain cloud and desktop virtualization practices on Desktop as a Service, Light- Weight Private Cloud for Enterprises and Network as a Service.
Bharati Lele