Shankar Kalyana
Distinguished Engineer & CTO | Global Business Services, IBM India
Shankar Kalyana is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Global Business Services in India. In his current role, Shankar leads the strategic and new solutions domains like Smarter Cities for India/South Asia. He advises and guides IBM’s clients on the effective use of Technology to address complex business challenges, and driving the internal organizational technology capability to enable IBM deliver to the Client needs effectively. Shankar drives the Solutioning capabilities as the Solution Design leader for India. He is equally responsible for driving the Technical Eminence programs in IBM India and enabling IBM’s professionals to pursue a fruitful technical career path.Shankar’s 27-year experience in IT, the last 11 in IBM, spans all phases of the software lifecycle and multiple customers in various roles. He has architected, designed, developed, and implemented both custom and packaged software solutions, across various environments and platforms. In his role as a technical advisor, he has counseled and assisted Senior Client Executives with IT strategy and Enterprise Architecture.Shankar holds a Master degree in Information Science from The Pennsylvania State University.