Speaker Bio:  

Jay Pullur
Founder & CEO, Pramati Technologies
Jay Raghavendra Pullur is founder and CEO of Pramati Technologies Private Limited. He is both a technocrat and visionary, who has grown through the ladders at the very best of Indian IT industry from its early days, gathering the experience that would equip him in executing a global vision. During his stay of 10 years with Wipro, Jay had the opportunity to see the dynamics of growth and be part of successful business development and execution for several large US corporations such as GE, Hewlett Packard, Xerox and Sequent. Today, he spearheads a silent software product revolution in India in the form of Pramati Technologies. Jay is also a regular speaker at conferences on technology and IT trends, such as CA World 99, CSFB Technology Conference 2000 and invited presentation at Nasdaq in April 2002.
Sabyasachi Ghosh
Senior Application Engineer, Oracle
Sabyasachi is currently working for Oracle as Senior Application Engineer. He has worked on Oracle RDBMS ,Oracle Applications ERP Systems , Mobile Supply chain application , OA framework for Java. He has also worked on building Webservices around the existing ERP products using J2EE platform. He has also contributed to various open source products.
Ashish Sarin
Product Architect, ADP
Ashish Sarin has more than 12 years of experience architecting and developing enterprise applications and portals using Java EE and the Portlets API. He has authored many articles on portlets and rich internet applications using Spring, Liferay, DWR, DOJO, JSF, Spring Portlet MVC, and Spring Roo. He is the author of Portlets in Action (published by Manning Publications) and Spring Roo 1.1 Cookbook (published by Packt Publishing). At ADP, he is working on the Digitial Marketing products for the automobile industry.
Sastry Kumara Swamy Kuppa
Director Projects , Cognizant
Sastry has an experience of around 17.5 years in the IT Industry, spent time through a variety of large and small companies including CMC, Wipro and Cognizant. He has grown from the depths as a Junior Software Engineer to now Director - Projects in the Information, Media and Entertainment vertical. Sastry has performed every conceivable role in the software development life cycle from project planning to QA to deployment management across a string of projects and programs.
Karthik Banda
Specialist Master, Deloitte
Karthik Banda is a Technology Specialist with Deloitte Consulting India. He has more than a decade of experience in IT industry and played various roles as a Software Engineer, Manager,Technology Consultant and an Architect, with deep expertise in defining Systems Design and Architecture on Java platform.He has deep experience in creating application development frameworks and solution sets using Java. Karthik leads the Java Community of Practice at Deloitte delivery centers in India practice, responsible for building Java practice competencies. He has conducted multiple tech-talks predominantly around Architecture, Design and Software Engineering best practices. Karthik holds many professional certifications from several vendors including SUN and Oracle.
Dr. Prakash Goteti
Subject Mater Expert -Java Technologies, Mahindra Satyam
Prakash has an experience of around 15 years in research, teaching, training and development. He is currently working as subject matter expert-Java technologies at Technology Learning Services- Mahindra Satyam. He is the Co-author of Java programming language, along with Ken Arnold, Davis Holmes, Games Gosling, 3rd edition, Pearson Education.
Lalit Balchandani
Java & OS CoE-HiTech Solution Central, Tata Consultancy Services
Lalit have more than 13 years of experience in Software Development, Design and Architecture on J2EE based online applications. Since past 3-4 years his focus has been on Performance Optimzation and Engineering of J2EE based applications. In his current role with in TCS, he is the lead of Java & Open Source Center Of Excellence, where he is responsible for pre-sales solutioning, competency development, specialized offering development & positiong with TCS customers and delivery support.
Sunila Gollapudi
Technology Specialist, Broadridge
In a Technology career that now spans over a decade, Sunila’s expertise is in Designing and Architecting highly Scalable Enterprise Applications for Fortune 500 clients of the Financial Industry, using Java and related Technologies. An Open Source Enthusiast, she enjoys and excels in providing client-centric Solutions with Frameworks/Architectural Options cutting across Open source inventions. She also has a long standing record in solving Application Performance Issues and volunteers her time in various Java Forums.
Madhuri Mandava
IT Sr. Manager, Dell
Madhuri is working for Dell for the past 5 years. She has a Java experience which goes back to 1994 when she worked for Symantec Corp. on the first IDE for Java: Visual Café. Since then she have worked as a Java Developer for 5 years at a couple of DotCom’s and again as a Consulting Engineer for 6 years at Loudcloud, Inc (now Opsware acquired by HP) deploying various clients’ Java and other technology apps onto LoudCloud’s infrastructure to provide Managed Services.