INFOSEPTION - Key Persons
Abhishek Kant is an industry veteran with over 14 years of experience in various roles in IT industry. Currently, he leads the Telerik India team as the Country Manager. He started his career in offshore services delivery with Satyam Computers. From 2004 - 2011, he served at Microsoft in various technical and business positions. He is certified as a Scrum Master & Microsoft Certified Application Developer.
Abhishek is passionate about solving real world problems with technology. He is currently helping organizations adopt the new SMAC technologies and realize productivity gains. He tweets at @abhishekkant
Anil Prasad has over 23 years of experience; he has worked across multiple business domains such as telecom, media & entertainment, and BFS. Prior to the current role as Technology Head with Tata Consultancy Services, he served as Enterprise architect for a leading Communication and Data Services provider in India, Product Head for TCS' BaNCS Service Integrator and Architecture, Chief Architect for leading DTH service Provider in India.
Prior to joining TCS he was into entrepreneurship and academics and also served as a CTO for a telecom VAS provider.
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- Director, IT, VMware
- the IT Senior Director
Chandra is the IT Senior Director responsible for Enterprise Applications Shared Services at VMware . In this role, he manages a global team of 300+ people that are responsible for UI/UX Development, Enterprise Applications Integrations Development, Performance Engineering, QA and Application Support. Chandra joined VMware, Palo Alto in 2008 and relocated to start the IT Applications group in Bangalore 5 years ago. He has played a number of leadership roles within IT Applications group and has a strong track record of delivering key customer facing applications.
Prior to joining VMware, Chandra worked at Cisco Systems and The Gallup Organization and has over 16 years of IT industry experience. He holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington, Seattle and an MBA from San Jose State University, San Jose.
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- Co - Founder of Modulus
- Director of Business Operations, Modulus, a Progress Company
Charlie Key is Co-founder of Modulus, a premier Node.js hosting solution recently acquired by Progress Software. He has spent several years working in the software industry, where he has created over a dozen production websites and applications for many of the world's largest brands.
Throughout his career Charlie has founded 3 companies (2 have been acquired), built dozens of software products and enterprise web applications, and led a business unit at public company. Charlie's passion for entrepreneurship, startups, and building businesses has helped him become an industry thought leader in the devops space. He has spoken at events such as Fluent, NodePDX, Node Summit, and HTML5DevConf.
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- Solution Consultant & Architect, TCS
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- Engineer
- Principal Engineer, Progress Software Development
Dr Ganesh Iyer, (Engineer, Technology Evangelist, Researcher, Professor, Blogger, Photographer and Dancer) is currently working with Progress Software Development as a Principal Engineer. He is also a Visiting Faculty at IIIT, Hyderabad and an Adjunct Professor at BVRIT, Narsapur, India in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He has received his PhD degree from National University of Singapore in 2012. He has several international publications including book chapters, journals and conferences.
He has presented several number of talks, workshops on Progress products and technologies at various venues including Progress Exchange and many other technology events. He is an active practitioner in software quality analysis and has presented numerous talks on same topic in USA as well as in India. He has also published several research articles and book chapters on software testing and the most recently he contributed a book chapter on Cloud Testing for the upcoming "Encyclopedia on Cloud Computing.
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- Director, Usability Research Lab and Chairman & Co - Founder, Grinbath Technologies LLC
- Is Director of the Usability Research Lab
Dr. Brian Still is Director of the Usability Research Lab (Texas Tech University), and also the Chairman & Co-Founder of Grinbath Technologies. His more than two decades of work in the academy and industry allow him to lend a unique perspective to discussions on DevOps. Dr. Still holds multiple hardware and software patents as well as software license copyrights. He has published extensively on technology subjects including user experience and open source software. He brings a researcher's, a developer's, and an executives' approach to DevOps.
Eddy Pauwels (ITIL Master, Lean IT trainer, CSM, CSPO) is an experienced IT professional and excellent speaker. Eddy has a masters degree in computer science from the University of Brussels. During the past 25 years he specialized in Application and Service Lifecycle Management. As an accredited APMG trainer he regularly lectured on Lean IT and ITIL. Eddy is a respected coach within organizations to implement Agile, Lean IT and performance based service management principles. Currently he is VP at Clarive Software.
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- Associate Director - DevOps, Happiestminds
Karthiga Sadasivan leads DevOps Practice in Happiest Minds. She has 15 years of rich experience in IT with expertise in DevOps, Engineering Services, Configuration and Release Management. Karthi is a solution finder, devOps practitioner and devOps enabler. She holds a Master's degree in Business Administration with Bachelor's degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering.
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- Global Head - Engineering Operations, Process & Tools
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- Managing Director of Valtech India
Ms. Sujatha Balakrishnan, Managing Director of Valtech India is a hands on leader with 33 years of experience in managing and growing strategic business units with niche focus on Digital and Technology services. She is an avid Agile practitioner currently driving a strategic initiative of transforming Valtech India as a high value provider of digital offerings. She manages Valtech India with P&L ownership of unit with 500 consultants and delivers value to best brands across the world.
She has expertise on developing customized solutions and providing delightful experience to end consumers of key brands in Retail, Travel, Banking & Financial Services and Manufacturing domains. She delivers value to customers through digital focused solutions and platforms - eCommerce, Content, Mobile and Analytics, Social Media and more and emphasizes on adaptations of Agile methodologies and help client to achieve their true business.
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- Associate Vice President, Infosys
Naresh is Reuse and Tools Head @ Infosys and program manages the Open Source program @ Infosys. In his stint at Infosys, Naresh has worked in different roles in Software Delivery, Consulting & Quality. Assurance functions that have provided him opportunities to work with several client teams and help some of them in key transformation programs. Naresh has experience in Software Development, Quality System Design, Process definition, Implementation and Consulting, Training, Audits and Assessments. He possesses a sound understanding of various quality models and frameworks like CMM, CMMI, ISO, Six Sigma, and MBNQA. Naresh has won accolades from various quarters in Infosys for his innovative and practical solutions and team management. Naresh participates on several product council discussions with partners like Microsoft, IBM etc. Naresh is a member of the Board of Technical Advisors for IBM SW Labs, India and an IBM Champion 2012, 2013, 2014
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- Head - Mobility & Digital Advisory Services, Cognizant
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- Lead - Cloud Services, TCS
Sumedh Waikar has over 19 years of experience. In his stint at TCS, Sumedh has worked in different roles in Software Delivery and Consulting. Sumedh has extensive experience in Software Development, Package implementations, product management, Consulting. In his previous role, he has also managed Cloud SaaS business. Sumedh is also ToGAF certified architect. In his current role, Sumedh works with global customers to undertake road map definition, solution architecture and deployment strategy development along with technology consulting for Cloud technologies.
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- Director
- Director - Alliance Partner Enablement, Microsoft
Tejasvi Kumar is a Director within the Developer Experience (DX) Team at Microsoft focusing on the Architect Engagement with the Global Alliance Partners. During his career spanning close to 10 years at Microsoft, he has held varied roles that included being a Technology Strategist and a Product Manager. He is passionate about software tools & processes and has contributed articles to IT magazines, speaks at events globally and has been a spokesperson on Television on the trends in software development lifecycle. He holds an MS in IT.
Venkata believes that it is the customer paves the way for us to grow. Hence, we all should support the customer to grow as the growth is always mutual.
It's not just Venkata, but all are part of the management and equally responsible for success or failure.
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- Principal Consultant, PM Power Consulting
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- CEO & Principal Architect, Olin Data
- CEO of OlinData
Apart from being the CEO of OlinData, Walter dons multiple hats of a Principle Architect, Puppet Trainer and speaker at leading tech events globally. He is also a strong proponent of open source products and solutions.
Walter has implemented Puppet in over a dozen environments from really large to really small. Walter has trained Puppet trainings in two continents in over 10 different countries, giving him a good cross-cultural understanding of business conditions. Companies such as SalesForce, Disney, Intel, Cisco and various universities have all been trained by him.