Speaker Bio:  

Philip Antoniades
Senior Director MySQL Sales Consulting WorldWide, Oracle
Philip started with MySQL AB in 2003 & is currently Senior Director of the Worldwide MySQL Presales Consulting team & Business Development Managers at Oracle. Prior to working for MySQL he founded an Open Source consultancy in New York City, and lead a Web Development team in Chicago. He holds a degree in Sociology from Columbia University. Philip has over 15 years experience working in IT as a developer, DBA, and in various team and project management roles.
Chandra Balani
MySQL Database Country Sales Sr. Manager, Oracle
Chandra heads the MySQL Enterprise business for India at Oracle. He started the MySQL business in India for Oracle after the SUN acquisition which includes hiring of partners and distributors for MySQL. He has been working with Oracle from more than 5 years in different roles including Sales, partner management and business development for Oracle’s technology and application products. Chandra is an Engineer with MBA in marketing having overall 15 years of experience in the IT industry.
Joel Divekar
GM - Information Systems, People Interactive
Joel is an Open Source enthusiast with 21+ years of Management & Technical experience spread across varied domains like IT, Server Management, Mobile App, Security, LBS, mVAS, Web, Logistics & Manufacturing.
Ajay Mahajan
Lead Architect, Wipro
Ajay is having 15 years of IT experience in Application Design & Development 8 years in Architecting Middle/Back office processing systems in Investment Banks. His expertise lies into Solution and Enterprise Architecture for Investment Banking Java, JEE, HTML, Spring, Hibernate Messaging & Rules Engine – EMS, MQ, Drools Databases – Sybase, Oracle, Graph Performance Tuning & Optimizations especially for Straight through processing Capacity Planning, HA/DR Strategies Legacy Modernization Blueprints.
Aseem Jakhar
Chief Researcher, Payatu Technologies
Aseem has extensive experience in system programming, security research & consulting and managing security software development projects.He has worked on various security software including IBM ISS Proventia UTM appliance, messaging/security appliance, anti-spam engine, anti-virus software, Transparent HTTPS proxy with captive portal, bayesian spam filter to name a few. He is an active speaker at security and open source conferences; some of the conferences he has spoken at include Defcon, Hack.lu, Blackhat, Xcon, Cyber security summit, Cocon, OSI Days, Clubhack, Gnunify. His research includes Linux remote thread injection, automated web application detection & dynamic web filter. He is the author of open source Linux thread injection kit - Jugaad which demonstrates a stealthy malware infection technique. He is well known in the hacking & security community as the founder of null -The open security community, registered not-for-profit organization.
Nikhil Sontakke
Senior Architect & Founding Member, StormDB
Nikhil has more than 12 years of experience in the IT Industry. He has good exposure to & understanding of most components of the product stack: from the kernel layer right up to the web application layer. He has in-depth exposure to open source technologies like PostgreSQL & Drupal. Along with this he has a very good understanding of the Open Source eco-system in terms of community interactions, remote location based product development etc. Prior to StormDB he was associated with companies like EnterpriseDB & Symantec.
Kedar Bhise
Senior Architect, Zensar Technologies
Kedar is responsible for Intellectual Property development across all of Zensar and also engages in Enterprise Architecture consulting assignments with customers. He has over 18 Years of experience in the IT industry. At Zensar, Kedar has handled various roles such as Head of Java & Open Source CoE, Head of Mobility Practice. Kedar has spoken previously at the Silicon India Mobile Developer Conference in Pune.
Sadashiv Madhukar Kulthe
Staff Specialist Product Developer, BMC Software
Sadashiv is having more than a decade of IT experience. His responsibilities at BMC Software includes configuration management and automation for builds. His experience lies in development of Storage Products, Application development, Live Linux Web & Production Server Administration & System Administration, Linux System & Applications Configuration, tasks automation, log analysis, Troubleshooting. He is having good knowledge of Linux, Shell Scripting and Perl. Prior to BMC Software he was associated with the companies like IBM Software Labs, VMWare and many more.