IBM Developer Day

Girish Dhanakshirur

Girish Dhanakshirur is the WW CTO for Mobile Portfolio in the IBM Cloud division. He works closely with WW client CxOs on large-scale architecture and deployments. As a technical advisor, Girish partners with many CxOs to chart their Digital Transformation journey. He's an IBM Master Inventor, member of IBM Academy of Technology and holds an MS in CS and an MBA, from Florida Atlantic University, USA.

Dinesh Shetty

Dinesh Shetty is an Executive IT Specialist and Lab Technical Leader @ India Software Lab’s Digital Technology Lab. Dinesh is known as a trusted advisor for IBM customers, has over 19 years of experience in the Enterprise Integration and has led several client implementations for his customers. He is a worldwide SME for IBM technologies like IBM DataPower and IBM API Connect. Additionally, Dinesh has been an active evangelist of the API Economy in the industry and is a passionate speaker in this area for many years

Ajay Chebbi
Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Cloud –Mobile developer experience

Ajay is a passionate developer who likes to bring products to life to address customer pain points. Currently he is the Lead Architect for Mobile developer experience for IBM Cloud. He is a much sought after expert in Mobile and cloud technologies in the customer and developer community. Ajay is a seasoned Engineer and has lead several product teams to deliver products in the area of Cloud, Mobile and Security. He has been instrumental in architecting the next gen SaaS on IBM Cloud that Mobile developers need to build secure mobile apps.
Ajay is very passionate about bringing joy to developers who use the products he builds!

Vijay Sukthankar

Vijay Sukthankar is currently Lead Cloud Architect focusing on IaaS, Containers and driving Microservices adoption across all the GSIs in India Software Lab. Vijay's experience over two decades covering Software Engineering & Development and Application & IT Infrastructure Services has got him unique opportunities such as the FOAK ( First of A Kind ) projects with Leading Private Bank in India. As a Cloud Advocate, Vijay has enabled many client facing IBM Teams to leverage and effectively position IBM Cloud Portfolio with various customers and also helped clients in Telecom sector in geo with the initial technical assessments and support in their Cloud journey. Vijay is an IBM Master Inventor with 14 patents issued to him. He has spoken at various International conferences like Cloud Connect, ACM, CloudCamp, IEEE Conference on Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems.

Vanitha Jayasuriya

Vanitha Jayasuriya has 20+ years of experience focusing on emerging technology based solution that creates value for customer. She leads Wipro’s Cloud Native and Platform services Theme in Cloud Apps Ecosystem. In her current role she advices customers and help them embrace Cloud Native journey using Containerization, DEVOPS, API, Microservices and Serverless based Architecture. She mentors and nurtures Cloud Native Architect community. She promotes Diversity and Inclusion

Rajan Raman

Rajan Raman is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) in the IBM Digital Commerce Platform team. He works as an Architect in the IBM marketplace and is responsible for the subscription and subscriber management systems. Rajan has around 20 years of industry experience out of which more than 10 years is in the Cloud eco-system building born in the cloud SaaS applications using IaaS/PaaS. Rajan also has 3 patents to his name and is a former member of IBM Academy of technology.

Sreekanth Iyer

Sreekanth Iyer is an Cloud Security Architect with IBM Cloud Developer Services team. He works on developing IBM’s Cloud Security Technical Strategy and Foundation Security Services. He is an Open Group Certified Distinguished Architect and the Chair of the Bangalore Chapter of the Association of Enterprise Architects. He has led several client solutions across multiple industries and technologies. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and the Chair for IBM Technical Experts Council India. He is an IBM Master Inventor with over 35 patents rated file.

Carmel Schindelhaim

Carmel Schindelhaim is a Product Manager working on tools that developers can use to secure their cloud apps and resources in IBM Cloud. Carmel drives product roadmap and strategy, feature definition, and go to market. Previously Carmel worked on tools for mobile app development.

Gal Shachor

Gal Shachor is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for Security Services in IBM Cloud. In this role, he is drive technical architecture and technical strategy across security services in IBM Cloud. Prior to this assignment, Gal lead the MobileFirst Platform and services where he initiated and led projects in the areas of mobile and cloud.

Manish Bhide

Dr. Manish Bhide is the Chief Architect for Trusted AI capabilities in IBM AI Open Scale. He has been with IBM for more than 16 years and has worked across different parts of IBM such as IBM Research and IBM Software group. Manish has a passion for innovation and is credited with conceptualising several technological innovations which have made an impact on IBM’s products and offerings. Manish is a prolific inventor and has filed more than 50 patents and has published more than 25 research papers in IEEE/ACM conferences. He has a PhD in Computer Science from IIT Bombay.

Vishal Chahal

Vishal Chahal is the Chief Architect for Cognitive Solutions at System Integrators lab and Technical Lead for IBM Machine Learning Hub at IBM Software Labs in Bangalore. He specializes in Watson Cognitive Products, Advanced Analytics, Advanced Visualization, DataWarehouse and Data Integration technologies. He has architected Cognitive and Analytics solutions for multiple customers across Telco, Banking, Insurance, Aviation and Healthcare Industries. He has a rich background of product architecture and development experience on portfolio across Watson, SPSS, Cognos, DB2 and Websphere. Vishal is Level 3 certified IT specialist from The Open Group.

Amol Dhondse

Amol Dhondse is an IBM Senior Certified Solution Architect, Open Group Master Certified Architect, TOGAF Certified Senior IT Architect working with Digital Business Group. He is IBM Master Inventor and filed more than 40 patents in areas such as Cognitive, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT). Amol is also part of Architecture review board and patent review team. He has over 18 years of experience in the IT Industry and 11 years in Architecture profession. Amol is active among multiple IBM technical communities as a technical evangelist and thought leader and is member of IBM Academy of Technology & leading multiple initiatives. Amol is IBM Recognized Speaker and has presented white papers in Regional Technical exchanges, external forums and has been invited in various universities/colleges to conduct workshops on Cognitive, Machine Learning, IoT, Social, Mobile technologies. He has presented session on “Cognitive Collaboration” San Francisco as part of “Connect 2017”, presented on “Watson/IoT” at ICDMAI international conference in Malaysia, Keynote speaker at International Conference on Smart Systems (ICSS 2018) and invited speaker for IoT Summit-Pune 2015,2016 & 2017.He mentored students which won 3rd prize in Smart India Hackathon 2018, Singapore and team was felicitated by Hon. PM. Narendra Modi.

Rajesh Jeypaul

Rajesh K Jeyapaul has been a technical leader and a solution Architect for key transformational Developer Advocacy initiatives and also leading the study of distributed deep learning performance Engineering. In previous assignments, he has led development projects on JVM/OS, Cloud and led various enterprise migration assignment as well. He started his career with Indian Defense Research Organisation as Research Fellow. He has co-authored various redbooks on performance engineering, have few patents to his credit as well.

Sekhar Rangam - Bridgei2i

Sekhar is a technology enthusiastic with 12+ years of product design and development experience using Java/J2EE technologies, Python, Hadoop, Docker and AWS cloud services, having donned the roles of a developer, team lead and architect in start-ups, large multinational companies and service companies. He has predominantly worked in Media and Entertainment, Health care and Banking domains. Responsible for Architecture, Design and Development of BRIDGEpesona product Expertise technologies areas are Java/J2EE, EJB, Struts/Spring, Oracle/Mysql, R, Python, Hadoop, Docker, AWS Services, Microservices with Masters of Computer Applications qualification.

Prateek Roopra – MetaFact

Prateek is a full stack developer who works with private ventures and open source communities to build products that help accelerate the process of achieving United Nations SDGs. He has been a full stack developer at MetaFact and has worked at TradecraftCorp, Boston, US, SecureTraces NLP powered recruitment solutions application, Alpharetta GA. Prateek has contributed to OpenCollective – BackYourStack and was awarded young changemaker award in SDG based solutions at Asian Development Bank, at the age of 21. He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from University of Delhi.

Krishna Chaitanya Balaga

Krishna Chaitanya is a Watson and Cloud Engineer at IBM. He is a part of Digital Business Group: determined to smoothen the journey for Developers and their startups with IBMs visionary tech. In the past, he worked mainly with the start-up community. He undertook the roles of an IOT consultant, Computer Vision expert, Cloud Advocate, IOT trainer, Design Automation rookie and quite a few freelance consultancy roles as well, developing a good amount of street cred while doing so. Currently hes working on creating novel PoCs demonstrating the cognitive capabilities of IBM Watson and its ability to transform the way businesses operate forever.

Praveen Jayachandran

Praveen Jayachandran is a senior technical staff member, master inventor and manager of the Blockchain Platforms team at IBM Research, India. His work spans different aspects of blockchain technology, including developing an enterprise-grade blockchain platform, and reimagining industry use cases in a blockchain world. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.Tech-M.Tech dual degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He was selected as a Best of IBM awardee in 2017. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, is an ACM Eminent Speaker and a senior member of IEEE. He has won a couple of best paper awards and has served in the program committees of numerous international conferences and journals.

Varun Ojha

Varun Ojha is a senior software architect and works out of the IBM India Software Lab in bangalore. He has extensive experience developing middleware integration products such as Websphere Cast Iron, Websphere adapters and cloud native integration offerings such as cloud integration and connect and compose on IBM’s cloud platform, Bluemix. He is the Blockchain SME within the lab and has helped global system integrators design and develop numerous Blockchain based solutions across a variety of domains. He is currently lead architect for Tradelens platform being developed on IBM Blockchain platform.

Balaji Viswanathan

Balaji is a Blockchain Architect with IBM Software Labs working on the IBM TradeLens solution. He has been with IBM for past 15 years, most of which was with IBM Research Lab - India. He holds a Masters from Pennsylvania State University and his interests are in solving problems in distributed systems and systems management.

Cateina Technologies
Rajish Rajan

Rajish Rajan is a professional with 19+ years of rich expertise of working with Government (Indian Navy), MNCs and Startups. He has been instrumental in conceptualizing and designing products and solutions across multiple domains. Majority of the experience comes from the Banking & Financial sectors where he has headed various technology practices which includes Hybrid Integration, Payments Systems, and Blockchain. Blockchain being the latest passion, he has rolled out solutions in Supply Chain Financing / Donation Tracking / Insurance Document Exchange.

Cateina Technologies
Sanachit Mehra

Sanachit Mehra is a Blockchain Evangelist with over 6+ years of experience in the industry. He is currently the CEO of Cateina Technologies and advisor to two international startups based in Europe & the United States of America. Sanachit is a distributed computing enthusiast, having worked on the next generation technologies. He has conceptualized and designed Blockchain based solutions on Supply Chain Financing / Donation Tracking / Insurance Document Exchange. He has been invited as a speaker on Blockchain technologies at various national and international forums and has had the privilege to be on panel discussions with senior dignitaries of the industry.

Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy

Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy is a Researcher in the Blockchain and Collaboration Networks group at the IBM Research India lab in Bangalore. His research interests are in cryptography and security, focusing on the challenges in computing over private data in untrusted environments. At IBM, he studies these aspects from the perspective of blockchains. Dhinakaran recently completed his PhD from the University of Waterloo advised by Sergey Gorbunov and David Jao, where he was part of the Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CrySP) group and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC).

Pankaj Dayama

Pankaj Dayama is a Senior Researcher and Manager at IBM Research. He is currently leading Blockchain Solutions group at IBM Research with Privacy Preserving Network Collaboration as one of the key focus area. His group also works directly with IBM clients to build innovative blockchain solutions.

Mangesh Patankar

Mangesh Patankar is working with IBM as Developer Advocate - IBM Cloud. He has more than 18 years of IT experience. He is currently working in the areas of IBM Cloud, Watson, Data Platform and Private Cloud. He works with ISVs, partners & startups developer community enabling them to adopt IBM Cloud technologies. He hosts meetups & conducts workshops with Technical Developer Communities in West Region. He represents IBM in various forums/events as the speaker on IBM Cloud and Watson Platform.