Speaker Bio:  

Sumanth Tarigopula
Head of India center - Best Shore Application Services, HP
Sumanth Tarigopula is the head of India center - Best Shore Application Services for HP. In this role, he is responsible for delivery for all accounts being serviced from India for Americas, EMEA and APJ regions. He brings over 19 years of experience in global delivery, product/portfolio management, solutioning, business development, system architecture and implementation, and has created a proven track record of success. Prior to this role, he was the Director for Solutioning within HP where his team was instrumental in driving growth in Americas, winning several large pursuits working closely with region and practice leaders. He also held other leadership positions including WW Practice Director responsible for Applications Modernization and SOA business within HP. He also led the creation of the cross-BU HPS Applications Portfolio including solution strategy, portfolio definition, offering engineering and sales & delivery.
Jitender Arora
Consulting Systems Engineer - Cloud , NetApp
Jitender Arora is a Cloud Architect at NetApp. He is responsible for building cloud solutions and reference architectures based on NetApp and other partner solutions. He has been at NetApp for 5 years and has over 10 years of technical experience in various domains of Pre-Sales, Service Delivery and Technical Partner Management. He has also been a part of Cloud Standards Development Initiative at SNIA. He has created and delivered several training programs for integrating and managing complex infrastructure components within a cloud environment.
Saurabh Chandra
Head of automation group (R&D unit), CA Tehnologies
Saurabh Chandra currently heads the automation group for CA Clarity R&D unit, for all flavors i.e Cloud, On Demand and Standalone installations of Enterprise application products. He holds 4 internationally acclaimed research papers, 2 patents and is also an author of a book published by Tata-McGraw Hill. His professional careers spans across multiple domains starting from development, Automation, Iaas and Product management. In his past he has worked with several fortune 500 MNCs including Oracle, DRDO and Birlasoft. Saurabh has been instrumental in setting up 6 successful engineering divisions until now, across organizations. Nonetheless, he is also in the advisory body of several product start ups - to name a few BrainTab and Solemn and is a guiding light to several upcoming entrepreneurs.He possesses a very good understanding for amalgamation of business and technology and build profit centers for the organization. He is a BITS graduate and holds executive MBA from IIM Lucknow.
Navin Sylvester A
Product Manager, K7 Computing
Navin started his career as an embedded system freelancer. His primary focus area has been in the realm of OSS. He has been an open source evangelist and delivered talks on open source conference and universities. He currently works as the product development manager in K7 Computing&rsquot;s cloud division. He is involved in creating cutting edge PaaS product Cyclozzo and other innovative cloud product
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.
ReddyRaja Annareddy
Director - Cloud Computing and SaaS, Imaginea
Raja has over all 18 years of hands-on software development experience with all the phases of software development life cycle starting from planning, analysis and design to testing, implementation and deployment. Extensive hands on experience in managing and delivering projects with small and huge budgets. The last five years he has been leading key engagements at (Imagenia) Pramati Product Development Services Division, as Director of Product Development Services. He has executed and successfully delivered several projects using various technologies. He has also been involved with projects from rfp, proposal to execution, delivery and implementation. He has led the offshore teams with team sizes up to 40 engineers. The primary job is delivery and execution along with responsible good design, scalability, performance and people management. Has delivered and execute projects both on-premise and SAAS model.
Asrita Chetan Avasarala
Azure CoE lead, Mahindra Satyam
Chetan is an expert in architecting solutions and providing architecture consultation. Currently, Chetan leads Microsoft Windows Azure COE at Mahindra Satyam. He has overall 16 years of experience in providing architecture and consultation services for customers in various verticals and Microsoft. He is also a Winner of “Best Technical Architect 2011” award for Technology, Media and Entertainment Group at Mahindra Satyam and Winner of the Satyam’s “Patent of the Year” award for year 2006. He has published white-paper on “Affordable, Interactive Crowd-sourcing Platform for Sustainable Agriculture”. He has been recognized for providing strategic direction on technology aspects to customers. Chetan is an IBM Certified Solution Advisor in Cloud Computing Architecture.