Speaker Bio:  

Rajesh Ramachandran
General Manager and Head of India Product Center, eBay
Rajesh currently heads eBay India Center, a strategic global innovation arm of eBay. He brings 20 years of Software Product R&D experience of building world-class global product organizations delivering innovative, award winning, and successful enterprise software products. He worked on diverse areas and technologies including eCommerce, Cloud Computing, Middleware, Enterprise Architecture,, Data Integration, Enterprise 2.0, Business Intelligence, System Management, Networking and Robotics. Earlier to eBay, Rajesh was driving Middleware product organizations at Oracle. He held key roles in Siemens AG and Future software in the past. Rajesh holds Masters in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, an MBA from IIM, Bangalore and Bachelors in Electronics engineering from A.C.tech
Anurag Gupta
Senior Architect, Yahoo
Anurag Gupta 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 received B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur, MS in Computer Science from University of Rhode Island and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with performance analysis of multi-processor and distributed systems and he solved a problem that had stumped researchers for over a decade. For this he obtained best Ph.D. award from Georgia Tech. 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&rsquot;s highest honor - thrice. He led performance and scalability for all of Amazon.com during its early years when Amazon&rsquot;s revenues grew from $300 million to $3 billion in three years. He built and managed the infrastructure engineering team at Facebook that worked on memcache, scribe, thrift, photo infrastructure, operations software, and build and release tools as the number of users grew from a few tens of millions users to hundreds of millions users. He joined Yahoo in Bangalore as senior architect for search advertising platform that served over 600 million users - a multi-billion dollar business that was sold to Microsoft. He is currently senior architect for Yahoo Answers (over 200 million users) and Yahoo Groups (over 100 million users). He has published extensively in refereed conferences, journals and delivered several talks in industry and academia.
Pravin Sonsale
Vice President, Accenture
Pravin has rich work experience in the IT Industry. He has the ability to interact effectively with stakeholders to analyze requirements and formulate innovative processes for improved productivity and cost savings. He has successfully handled large teams and fully conversant with various open source tools and Agile methodologies. His strengths are ability to learn new technologies and contribute in technical / application architecture design as well as participate in implementation of it. He has got good hands-on experience in design and implementation of solutions in different areas ranging from Web enabling of Legacy Systems, Software product design, applications development, improvements through automation and Database design. He has a good domain knowledge of Retail Banking, Investment Banking, Corporate Actions, Reconcilation, Loan and Mortgages, Customer Relationship Management, Vehicle remarketing and Manufacturing.
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.
Raja Shankar Kolluru
Director, Sapient
Raja has more than 20 years of experience in Software development. He has played a gamut of roles in this long stint ranging from a software developer to an architect to various management roles. He has headed delivery organizations, horizontal groups and taken care of product development. This varied exposure has enabled him to understand a gamut of technologies which form the underpinnings of most of today&rsquot;s products and frameworks. He is currently Director,Technology in Sapient. In that capacity, he is helping various large scale enterprises to make the correct architectural decisions to enable today&rsquot;s large ecommerce systems. He sees Ecommerce as the next major opportunity for today&rsquot;s engineers
Raja Bavani
Technical Director, MindTree
Raja Bavani is Technical Director of MindTree’s Product Engineering Services (PES) group and plays the role of Product Engineering Evangelist and Agile Coach. He has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has published papers at international conferences on topics related to Code Quality, Distributed Agile, Customer Value Management and Software Estimation. His areas of interests include Global Delivery Model, Agile Software Development, Requirement Engineering, Software Architecture, Software Reuse, Customer Value Management, Knowledge Management, and IT Outsourcing. He is a member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society. He regularly interfaces with educational institutions to offer guest lectures and writes for technical conferences. His Product Engineering blog is available at http://www.mindtree.com/blogs/category/software-product-engineering. His articles and white papers on Agile Software Development are available at: http://mindtree.com/category/tags/agile.
Rajkumar Anantharaman
Engineering Manager, Intel
Raj Anantharaman is an experienced Software Development Manager in Intel&rsquot;s Software and Services Group. Raj and his team are responsible for providing scale solutions through externally facing portals (Intel Software Partner Program) that ISV&rsquot;s can use to drive innovation on Intel architecture and also enable them to go to market with their Intel innovated solutions. In addition, Raj also manages the Business Intelligence portfolio for both scale solutions and Intel&rsquot;s AppUp - that ultimately help the business in strategic decision making. Raj has an overall 15 years of experience in the SW development industry. Raj has worked in multiple groups and in various positions across Intel - starting as a software developer, technical architect, project / program manager and as a people manager. Raj founded and established the Agile Software Development Center of Excellence in Bangalore in 2007 and has been pursuing expertise in Agile practices for the last 4 years. Raj and his team won the coveted Intel Software Quality Award in 2009 for the significant quality improvements they made due to Agile practices. Raj has also been evangelizing and supporting the adoption and maturity of Agile practices in various groups in Intel India. Raj is a certified PMP, has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Kerala and a Master&rsquot;s degree in Computer Science from University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Mahesh Somani
Distinguished Engineer, eBay
Mahesh Somani, is a Sr. MTS with over 15 years of experience in architecting and building performance, scalable and distributed systems. He has been with eBay for 5 years and his area of interest includes systems and performance engineering, concurrent programming, cloud computing and monitoring. Prior to joining eBay, Mahesh has worked at few startup and established companies in bay area. He has presented in various conferences including JavaOne and Impact. Mahesh holds a B. Tech. from IIT Bombay and Ph.D. from Univ. of Houston.
Pronam Chatterjee
Staff Systems Engineer , vFabric SME, VMware
Pronam is currently working with VMWare as Staff Systems Engineer where his primary focus is around building up a network SI/SOs. Pronam is also driving thought leadership in India for Spring and the entire vFabric Stack. Pronam has over 13 years of experience in technology, architecture and delivery management and is an MBA by qualification. Pronam has successfully delivered technology projects for clients in the areas of real time trading systems, risk management systems for the financial domain as well as ERP and portal applications in the HR domain. Prior to joining VMWare, Pronam was working as Director Architecture, at the HRS LOB of ACS, Xerox, where he was responsible for modernizing the legacy systems as well as conceptualizing and delivering the Product Roadmap. He has championed the cause of agile methodology and open source frameworks before they went mainstream and has been instrumental in their adoption in the organizations he has worked for.
Srini Kumar
VP, IT Strategy Advisor, Head of Delivery & Competency, Mahindra Satyam
Srini is a goal oriented IT executive with broad based experience in planning and implementing information solutions to address business needs. He has strong record of success in leading onshore/offshore teams and client services operations managing costs and risks. Srini has helped in Envisioning, Enabling, Empowering and Energizing Teams. Responsible for P&L cost centers & multi-million dollar budgets. Srini has been an IT Strategy advisor with 15 years of experience in Consulting, Enterprise Architecture & Delivery. He has developed Risk analysis and IT re-organization plan working with KPMG. Srini has restructured internal groups by specializations which decreased the expenditure by 20% YOY. He has been responsible for managing e-commerce websites which generated $20 Million/year revenues. Srini has worked as a centralized Support of e-Commerce solutions, help desk for Oracle US, EMEA and APAC regions. These solutions helped the Marketing and call center in increased revenues. He has managed group with revenue of 20 million plus with a team of 600 Associates responsible for Program delivery, Enterprise Architecture, Application development and BI&DW. Srini has his expertise in IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Global Delivery & Off-shoring, Technology Management, IT Governance and Portfolio Management.
Jobinesh Purushothaman
Principal Product Manager, Oracle
Jobinesh Purushothaman is an enterprise Java specialist over 12 years of experience in the industry. He works with Oracle as Principal Product Manager for Application Development Framework. He is involved in design and architectural decisions of various products using ADF and JavaEE technologies. Jobinesh also spends time on training and mentoring developers on ADF and Java technologies.
Anand Mahadevan
Senior Manager, Platform Engineering, eBay
Anand has over 19 years of software engineering expertise currently managing Platform Engineering at eBay. He has built large transactional systems at AT&T/Lucent and headed the architecture group at Satyam. He was one of the early adopters of Java and web technologies as early as 1995 and was instrumental in evangelizing it with in Lucent. Currently involved in solving scalable problems on services and logging with a lot of interest in mobility solutions. He is also the mobile platform group at eBay, a scalable platform catering to all mobile requirements. He has pioneered a lot of engineering solutions at Lucent in the mask data management area and improved design productivity by 2x.
Kalaiselvan P
Head – Cloud Engineering and Enterprise Architecture, MindTeck
Selvan has 16 years of IT related experience in building software solutions, architecting and application integration. A senior leader with core expertise in product development & delivery with organization development responsibilities, Kalaiselvan is experienced in product development, product strategy and technology road-map. He has led multiple cross distributed product teams to deliver through rapid iterations (Agile), build prototypes to conceptualize the idea to market the product (product life cycle). Kalaiselvan owns internal product strategy and development, Architecture services; Cloud based IT services in Smart Energy (OpenADR) and is responsible for Cloud Strategy, Product Re-Engineering and Migration to Cloud, enabling SaaS solution development & offering cloud services in AWS, Azure, Google AppEngine at Mindteck. Selvan has worked with companies such as Sabre and IBM before coming onboard Mindteck .He has completed his M.S in Software Systems from Bits Pilani and possesses a Certificate of Global Business Leadership (CGBL) from Harvard.
Mahesh Gidwani
Sr. Technical Architect, Dell
Mahesh Gidwani has over twelve years of experience in the IT industry including over five years of experience in Enterprise and Service Oriented Architecture. He is currently a member of Enterprise Architecture and Integration CoE at Dell Service. His focus areas are enterprise architecture and cloud integration and he currently works towards building capabilities and solutions in cloud technologies.
Rajesh Venkatesan
Senior Architect, HCL Technologies
Rajesh is a Senior Architect with HCL and has been extensively working on Java/J2EE technologies for over a decade. He has been involved in building highly scalable,distributed architectures for leading ISV customers of HCL around the Globe and has been involved extensively in technology development for Cloud computing / SaaS space for the past many years. His passion is Software Architecture of Enterprise-class applications and his special interests include Multi-tenant architecture, architecture for scalability and UI frameworks. He has rich experience in Product Development and has architected HCLs Multi-tenant SaaS Delivery Platform.
Hemalatha Bhaskar
Lead Application Architect, IBM
Hema is an IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer and Rational Certified Application Architect. She has 13 years of experience in application software development with over 7 years in designing enterprise solutions based on the J2EE standards. She has repeated hands-on experience in developing Component based architectures for Computer Services, Retail, and Business Analytic solutions.
Shekhar Gulati
Senior Java Consultant, Xebia India
Shekhar Gulati has 6 years of enterprise Java experience. He did his engineering in 2005. He is a Sun Certified Java Professional (SCJP) and Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD). He has worked on product development projects with experience in both Agile and Waterfall based methodologies. He has good knowledge in server side JEE technologies. Shekhar is currently working as a Senior Java Consultant at Xebia India and in past has been associated with companies like GlobalLogic technologies.He has extensive experience in using technologies such as Spring, Spring-WS, Spring Roo, Hibernate, Maven, Struts2, JSP, Servlet and XML technologies.His interests include working on enterprise Java technologies and learning new things which may be applied to develop and architect solutions of the real world. His current interests are Spring, NoSQL databases, RAD frameworks like Spring Roo, Cloud Computing (mainly PAAS services like google app engine, CloudFoundry,OpenShift), Hadoop.Shekhar has ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people. He is a target oriented team player with strong work ethics, proactive, committed and self motivated.
Nandakumar Ramakrishnan
Member of technical staff , eBay
Nandakumar Ramakrishnan, is a doctorate in Information Technology from Prescott University with around 10+ years of software experience and is currently working at eBay, playing on various areas such as Tools Development, Security Engineering, Testing Automation framework Design, Security Assessment and PCI-DSS Compliance, and Cloud computing. Nanda also played as Technical Reviewer for Step-In SUMMIT 2008 and 2009 on Testing and Security Conferences respectively and as presenter at ISQT 2008 on security.
Deepak Balasubramanyam
Member of technical staff , eBay
Deepak Balasubramanyam is a Member of technical staff at ebay.com. His work at eBay revolves around SOA Governance; SOA Frameworks; Service – Resource architecture bridge layers; SOA Performance etc. Frameworks written by Deepak are used within and outside eBay, scaling to billions of calls a day. He has over 6 years of experience in the industry and is an Oracle certified architect. Deepak has a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics from SSN college of engineering.