Speakers - Web Application Conference 2011, Bangalore

Speaker Bio:

Srinivas Bhagavatula

Program Architect , Mind Tree

He is a Bachelor of Technology in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. 13+ years.He is a expert of Architecting complex applications in an enterprise landscape, Wide variety of systems – client-server, web, service-oriented, Core strength in Microsoft technology stack, knowledge of other stacks as well Assessment & Review of IT landscape Framework Definition and realization Achieved Microsoft Certified Architect accreditation

Ashutosh Kumar

Principal Interaction Designer, Yahoo

A seasoned practitioner of “user experience” with 10+ years of consulting experience for clients Fortune 500. He holds an M.Des. From IIT, Mumbai after being trained as an architect. He is an expert in managing end-to-end user experience for large enterprise applications in domains such as corporate banking, finance, international trade, medical and web advertising exchanges. His key strength lies in managing global multi-disciplinary teams across business, design and UI technology to identify UX gaps, analyze UI challenges, and design seamless user experience for enterprise applications. While keeping “user centered approach” in core, he also focuses on empirical research based UX patterns with equal sensitivity to visual design and product technology to provide complete solution across "concept to implementation" phases.

Sudhir Rao

Brand Practice Manager - Rational, IBM

Sudhir Rao is a Practice Manager in India Lab Services for Rational at IBM. He focusses on services offerings and delivery of IBM Rational&rsquot;s key offerings in Systems Engineering, Embedded Software Development and Cloud Services. He has practical experience on both business, process and technology facets associated to Systems Engineering, Embedded Software Development, Cloud Computing, Lean Business Process Management, IT Project Portfolio Management, Requirements Definition & Management, Web Application Performance Testing and Software Change and Configuration management. He has 13 years of experience and has served in STMicroelectronics, Serena Software and IBM in capacities ranging from tools group leader to pre-sales and solution architect. He holds a post graduation in information technology and management.

Narayan Raman

CEO, Tyto Software

Narayan Raman is the founder, CEO of Tyto Software Pvt. Ltd., a Bengaluru based software products company specializing is software automation products. Narayan is the author of Sahi, an award winning open source web test automation tool. He has over 10 years of experience in the industry and holds a B. Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay. Tyto Software, started in 2008, helps organizations simplify and achieve success in their test automation process. Tyto is now a small, successfully growing company.

Dipankar Sinha

Infrastructure Head - /Project Manager, Hungama.com

A result oriented leader with 11+ years of rich and insightful experience in IT industry. Taking excellent care of growing infrastructure and services along with clients/partners. Dipankar introduced different methodologies and technologies which improved service availability and improved performance of the old and new infrastructure and services. He is actively participating in application architecture design and security design and implementation for all new products with business team and technology team . He started NOC in Hungama successfully and now its handling and monitoring servers and network infrastructure and application deployment 24x7. As a representative of Hungama, he ideal/co-ordinate with different telecom companies, client, govt. agencies and provide them support and solutions. He created Architecture (Application/CMS/network/Security) and played Architect’s role very successfully. Introduced flawless Live Streaming in Hungama (Mobile/Web/Devices). Bollywood chat and other live events are using it successfully. Introduced and implemented open source streaming solutions which are working with IVR systems successfully and strengthening company image.

Shwetank Dixit

Web Evangelist, Opera Software

Shwetank Dixit works a Web Evangelist for Opera Software. He is also part of the W3C Mobile Web for Social Development Group, and the WaSP-ILG. He is co-steering Operas Open the Web Site Compatibility project, which involves working with the biggest web properties in the world and ensuring compatibility with them and advising better coding methodologies. He is also involved in evangelism of open web standards, and represents Opera Software in various events, seminars and conferences. His main interests and expertise include present and upcoming web standards, best practices for accessible design and mobile development, as well as the social impact of mobile technology. His interviews and articles have been published in various leading newspapers and technology magazines, discussing his thoughts on technology and how it might affect business and society, especially with respect to developing and fast growing economies.

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.

Gaurav Bhatia

Web Evangelist, Intuit

Gaurav Bhatia is Group Development Manager for txtWeb. txtWeb was founded with the vision and mission of delivering Internet content to billions of users, requiring no more than a simple feature phone. Gaurav is responsible all product development and innovations for txtWeb. Gaurav’s deep passion lies in building innovative technology products and leading world-class teams. He has been in the software industry for over 14 years and has worked at technology startups are well as large software companies in engineering management roles. He&rsquot;s equally at home in the San Francisco Bay Area as he is in Bangalore. Gaurav started his career at Oracle in Redwood Shores, CA where he spent 10 years in various product development leadership roles including founding and managing the Oracle Access Management product team in the Oracle Fusion Middleware division. Gaurav holds an MS from Stanford and BS from the University of Maryland at College Park, both in Computer Science and has been granted 5 US patents. Gaurav is married to Rashmi and has two boys. He is an avid runner and currently training for his 5th Airtel Delhi Half Marathon.

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.

Amit Aggarwal

Co Founder and CTO, VIA

Amit has more than 10 years of experience in architecting, designing and developing scalable platform or Via, one of the largest travel company in India. As a founding member he has grown the platform to support more than 50,000 transactions today (approx. a transaction every 2 sec). Amit has a background from the automotive industry having worked in Ford and Daimler Chrysler. He has worked as the head of Metrics and Data analytics for their retail website. He is keen about data analytics and metric space and has extensive knowledge of front end technologies. Amit is a Computer Science Graduate from IIT, Roorkee, where he topped his class and has been awarded the President of India Gold Medal for versatility and overall excellence.