OSI Days 2011

Alessandro is a software agilist in DNSEE, an italian firm based in Rome. His work mainly deals with the design of software architectures with RAD frameworks mixed with agile practices like test-first development, user-stories, pair-programming and so More...

Aman is Senior System Architect in Linux Solution Team in Huawei, India. He has more than 13 years of experience in Unix (mostly Linux) and Storage. He has expertise in Linux Kernel (File System and Storage Subsystem), Storage Protocols, Storage Virtualization More...

Anirudh holds a degree in MCA and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a BS 7799 Lead Auditor, with nearly eight years’ experience in the field of information security. He has conducted security audits for clients in companies from More...

He is Technical Leader in Linux solutions team, Huawei, India, with more than 6 years of experience in Embedded Systems and Linux. He has expertise in Linux S Optimization, Kernel, Drivers, Board support and RTOS.

Archit graduated from NSIT Delhi in 2009, he has been working on Linux display subsystem drivers for OMAP since then. He enjoys contributing to kernel mailing lists, read tech blogs and play arcade games.

Arne Blankerts solves IT problems long before many companies realize that they even exist. IT security is his passion, which he attends with almost magical intuition creating solutions that clearly bear his hallmark. Companies around the world rely on More...

Aseem "@" Jakhar is a security researcher at Payatu Labs, a startup in infosec trainings and consulting, with extensive experience in system programming, security research and consulting. He has worked on various security products and tools. He has been More...

Ashish Pandey Technical Lead,Linux Domain with Huawei,India.Close to 5 year of experience in Linux and Filesystems, Specially experience in development of distributed file system ,drivers and Linux Debug and Diagnostic tools.

Ashokan works as a Senior Platform Engineer at Dell R&D Center, Bangalore. Having 7+ years of industry experience in software design and development. His area of expertise includes Linux Kernel, File System and Storage Protocols.

Ashutosh is a software engineer working at EnterpriseDB. He has more than 6 years of experience in DBMS development, with special expertise in distributed RDBMS. He is one of the core member of Postgres-XC development team. His other interests include More...

Asif brings with him over 8 years of experience in Open Source Software development, Solution Architecture and Project management domains. Specialisation in architecture of large scale Drupal Applications with complex integrations and experience in Open More...

Vamsi leads the architecture team of clustering solutions. has more than 13+ years work experience in the area of middle ware and database domain. Working with the Huawei database team from its inception. Has been part of the team of three generation More...

Facinated by PHP since several years Bastian Feder supports the PHP documentation team by translating the SQLite manual into german. As a regluar speaker at several international and national conferences and freelancing author and trainer he concentrates More...

Dr. Schooley is a Research Fellow and Faculty member at the Kay Center for eHealth Research, School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University. His experience spans both academia and industry and has focused on designing and More...

Bish is with the Yahoo security group, where he leads the security efforts done out of their R&D center in Bangalore. Day in and out, he works with the engineers to develop secure and defensible apps. Of the remaining time, he focuses on strategic research More...

Chakrapani is an opensource evangelist, Drupal specialist,thinking masterhead and the solutions guru with around 3.5 years of experience in webosphere. He is a computer science graduate from IIIT Hyderabad, currently working as a solution stitcher at More...

Chetan is a software engineer working at EnterpriseDB. He has 9 years of experience in DBMS development. His other interests include query optimization, performance tuning and cloud computing.

Debarshi is currently engaged in VMware cloud initiatives and is from middleware application background. He is passionate about different cloud technologies and deploying applications to the cloud. In his previous role he has worked in IBM RFID (Radio More...

Divyanshu Verma presently works as Engineer Manager with Dell R&D Center, Bangalore, where he is responsible for the development of Enterprise Linux Servers on Dell Hardware. Prior to that he has worked as senior Linux developer with Broadcom India Research More...

Dominik Jungowski is a developer and ScrumMaster for the price comparison at CHIP Xonio Online GmbH (http://www.chip.de). He blogs privately at http://www.phpdevblog.net, is a certified Scrum Master (CSM) and studies psychology part-time at Fernuni Hagen.

Dr Farida Khan is VP-Learning and Research, at InOpen Technoliges. She received her PhD degree in Psychology from IIT Bombay, M.A and B.A. (Hons) from University of Mumbai. She has been awarded Gold medal by University of Mumbai. Her areas of expertise More...

K. Y Srinivasan is a Principal Architect in the Windows Server and Cloud Division at Microsoft, where he has been leading the effort to enhance the support for Linux on Hyper-V. K. Y comes to Microsoft from Novell where he was a Distinguished Engineer, More...

Gaurav Mishra is currently working with OSSCube LLC as the Lead UI Designer. And taking care of the UI development, clients & his design team. He has worked with national & international clients. And has also won some design awards along with his More...

He is also a Vice President of the Apache XML Project Management Committee and Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Sourcesense. Gianugo has a deep understanding of open source technologies and platforms, and brings a wealth of experience and More...

Gil Yehuda is the Director of Open Source and Open Standards at Yahoo! Inc. where he manages the policies, processes, and relationships with organizations, foundations, and projects in the Open Source and Open Standards area. Prior to joining Yahoo!, More...

Gireesha is working as Engineering Team lead with Dell R&D Centre, Bengaluru, in Linux Engineering Team. Having 9+ years of industry experience in Software Design, Development and Maintenance. Experience in Software Industry developing Enterprise Software, More...

Gokul is a Web 2.0 enthusiast. He has two years experience as a Java Developer with a MNC for two years. He has moved to Drupal realising its vast scope. He has handled various Drupal projects of varying scales in last one year. He literally plays More...

Harikrishnan R, Senior Platform Engineer, Dell, India R&D Center. Hari is working in F/W development team and have expertise in embedded Linux development

Harish, a Web Developer Evangelist, helps companies and enterprises realize business value in adopting the latest Microsoft Next Web Technologies and helping them address their real world challenges over the web. Harish Ranganathan has been a Technology More...

Harsh Chouraria is a Customer Operations Engineer at Cloudera. Prior to Cloudera, Harsh worked at Ericsson on scaling up their telecom-data analytics product called AnalyticSuite. Harsh holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Anna University More...

Working as Senior Firmware engineer in Dell R & D Bangalore Centre, Harsha has 10+ years of experience in Embedded Space with extensive experience on different Socs of ARM Based. He has worked on different domain consumer electronics, server, storage, More...

Hugo Hamon is a PHP and Symfony fan who works with PHP since 2003. After five years of professional PHP web development in web agencies for famous french customers, he now works as a consultant and trainings manager for SensioLabs. On his free time, Hugo More...

Irfan is System Architect, Linux Domain in Huawei, Bengaluru. He has over 9 years of experience in Embedded Systems and Linux. He has experience in multicore/hardware optimization of Linux systems for specific hardware systems working with customers like More...

Janakiram MSV is the Web Services Evangelist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in India. He helps developers, IT professionals, customers and partners understand the value and use the service offerings of AWS cloud platform. His responsibilities include enabling More...

A Journalist, book author, web developer, and entrepreneur, Levitt is a seasoned generalist. He currently resides in Austin, Texas. Interests include digital publishing, web services, APIs, developer frameworks, anything simple and powerful, and anything More...

Juozas Kaziukenas is an experienced and talented young professional, working with all kind of web projects as founder and CEO of Web Species Ltd - starting from small to medium websites and ending with enterprise business tools. His hands-on practice More...

Jyothi Bacche heads the open source practice at MindTree - a group that provides solutions solely on open source based software to their customers. She has 19 years of experience in the software industry and comes with a wide range of technology expertise. More...

“For Indian continental and NRI Social Media and Social Commerce initiatives, I highly recommend OMLogic. Kapil and his team are far and away the most cutting edge group with the best handle on making social media a success for this highly targeted More...

Keshava is currently working as Senior Software Engineer in Texas Instruments India Pvt Limited, Bangalore. He obtained a B E degree in Computer science and Engineering in 2001 from Bangalore University, India, and M-Tech degree in Computer Science and More...

Liuyang is Technical lead with Huawei Technologies, Shenzhen, China. Has close to 3 years of experience in working with Linux kernel. Masters degree in computer science from one of china's top universities (zhegiang university), had strong contributions More...

B.Tech IIT Kharagpur 2006 batch, having more than 5 years of industry experience as a Java developer. Have worked on various Enterprise Application Integration projects, Data center Management projects. Currently working in cloud computing domain in VMware  More...

Megha is working as a MySQL Technical Consultant at Oracle India. She looks after the complete India region and have multiple hands on experience with MySQL.She is MySQL certified.

Mishi Choudhary is the Executive Director of Software Freedom Law Center (sflc.in) based in New Delhi. sflc.in is a legal services organization which brings together legal and technical expertise in Free and Open Source Software usage, development and More...

With an Engineering degree in Computer Science and a PGDM degree in Management, he has been a contributor to opensource software for more than 6.5 years now. Currently he is an independent consultant working mostly with Novell/SUSE for the LibreOffice More...

Naren is a researcher with Microsoft Research India.

Naveen Nimmu has 20 years of track record with startups , as well as established organizations in networking , storage , security and processor technologies. He is most recently working for Broadcom as Sr. Manager responsible for platform infrastructure More...

Pavan Yara is a senior technical consultant at Eucalyptus Systems Inc, the leader in enterprise cloud computing and private cloud open source software. At Eucalyptus Systems, his responsibilities include developing the technological know-how and strategies More...

I am working as development engineer in Open Manage team with Dell R&D centre, Bangalore and contributing to CSQL open source main memory database management system in my free time. I am the founder and project admin for CSQL project and one of the major More...

Prabhakar is the Director for Continuing Product Development team for VMware in Bangalore. He has been with VMware in this role from 2005 and instrumental in the initial R&D development of VMware in India, building Sustaining and Escalation support organization.Prior More...

Prasant Kumar, Solution Engineer with Zend Technologies has more than 5 years experience working on various facets of web application development. He is a PHP5 Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) and holds Master’s Degree in Computer Applications from the More...

Prashant Patil is currently working as a technical manager in the Mobile Technology Solutions Group at MindTree. He has 7.5 years of experience in the design and implementation of enterprise web and mobile-web applications, using various Java & Web technologies.

Praveen is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Asthra (www.asthra.net) – a Technology Consulting company that he founded in 2004. He has over eleven years of experience in delivering solutions on Microsoft platforms. A graduate from REC, Surathkal, More...

Prasanna is head of the Carrier Grade Platform architecture team focused on complete next generation platform for ICT domain. Working in the telecom middleware and platforms domain for more than 13 years, with expertise in Voice Protocols, Protocol stacks, More...

RahulKrishna Gupta heads the pre-sales team for Novell India. He has more than 10 years of experience in the IT industry. He has expertise in Linux, Open Source and Data Center Technologies. In his current role, he is responsible for providing technical More...

Raj has been a part of the IT Industry for more than 9 years and works as a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft. He has worked on a wide range of Microsoft products & technologies ranging from VC++, MFC and Win32 programming to the latest developments on More...

Rama has over 18 years of industry experience in the field of embedded systems software development for Enterprise Servers, Telecom / Datacom, Industrial Controls and Data Acquisition systems. Rama has rich experience in dealing with embedded product More...

A technologist with varied experience spanning 15 years. Currently Principal Architect of the Gov. of India UID project - the world's largest identity database. Experience includes leading an architecture services group, IP creation and selling, architecture More...

Rohit Kumar Rai, Sales Director India, South East Asia & Australia at EnterpriseDB.Rai runs sales for EDB in India, SAARC, ASEAN & ANZ. He is responsible for driving success for one of the most important workloads in the Infra space (which is Database), More...

Roopesh Keeppattu Works as a System Architect in the Linux Group of Huawei (Bangalore, India). Got over 10 years of experience in Linux, in the areas of file systems, compilers, device drivers, distro management, maintenance support and parallel computing. More...

An alumnus of IIM Calcutta, Rupesh Shah, is a very creative and assiduous individual. His passion lies in leveraging Open Source based content and technology for Education. Rupesh always wanted to impart knowledge and share his experience with others More...

Ryusuke is OSS Specialist with 10+ years of experience of systems design using MySQL and open source solutions. He joined MySQL Japan, and is now working as MySQL Sales Consulting Manager of APAC at Oracle.

Nirmala leads the architecture team for the CG Middleware System Services, has more than 9+ years working experience in Huawei. Has worked for Huawei’s CG Middleware solution right from its inception. Has been a member of the second generation CG middleware More...

Leader of Architecture Team for Linux Domain, Huawei, India. He has more than 11 years of experience in Embedded Systems and Linux. He is an experienced speaker and has presented papers in LinuxCon events in Japan and Canada in 2011 and at various events More...

Sebastian Bergmann defines the standard in quality assurance for PHP projects. As a seasoned consultant and an experienced trainer with an excellent theoretical background, he is a sought-after expert in companies of all sizes.

Sreekandh has been in the space of Free/Open Softwares for the last 10 years. In his day to day life he plays various hats as "Open Source Advisor", "Cloud Architect", "Technical Architect", "Technology Enabler", "Belief Officer", "Buidling Custom Linux More...

Stefan Priebsch unites expert knowledge with extraordinary sense when to use which tool. His specialties are object-oriented development and software architecture. As an internationally acclaimed author and speaker he thrills auditoriums and likes to More...

Sue S. Feldman, RN, MEd, PhD is the Assistant Director of the Kay Center for E-Health Research at Claremont Graduate University (www. kaycenter.org). She has clinical, practical, and analytical expertise in health information systems analysis, design, More...

Sumit has a total of 9 years' experience, out of which eight years he has spent working in the embedded space. He started working for TI in the GGE (Modem) world, moving through different roles--Engineer to Tech Lead to Technical Project Lead in domains More...

Tobias has a degree in computer science and works for more than 10 years in professional web projects on basis of PHP. As an open source enthusiast, he contributes to various community projects. Tobias is a co-founder of Qafoo GmbH, which provides services More...

Varad Gupta is the Chief Technology Officer of Keen & Able Computers, an Open Source System Integration, Solutions and Consultancy company, and a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner. Varad has over 15 years of experience as a system architect, where his More...

Varadarajan V is the Chief Architect in "Open Source & Emerging Technologies Practice" at Mindtree. With overall experience of 20 years in IT Industry, in his current role as chief architect, he focuses on Architecting Solutions based on Open Source Technologies More...

Vartika Agarwal is a Senior Manager in Yahoo!'s Linux team. A strong believer in open source and its benefits, she has been a leading force in the company's move to Linux. After relocating from the US to India in 2010, Vartika is helping build the APAC More...

Venkat Mangudi is an Open Source evangelist based out of Bangalore, India. He is passionate about Open Source and speaks/writes about Open Source whenever possible. He writes for BenefIT, Businessgyan and other publications that help the small and medium More...

Vikas is currently working at Texas Instruments taking care of communities and projects around PandaBoard in India and pan-Asia. He is core member of PandaBoard.org community. He is Passionate about open hardware and software concepts and technologies. More...

He works as Principal Technical Consultant at ThoughtWorks, Bangalore. He has close to 13 years of experience in industry of which he has spent most of his time using Agile methods and developing domain intensive systems at ThoughtWorks. He is experienced More...

Zeev Suraski was a lead contributor to PHP starting in 1997, when he and Andi Gutmans developed the foundation for PHP 3. That new version was a turning point for the language, which today powers over 20 million websites including Facebook and Yahoo! More...