Bio: 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 development, starting from Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai in early 90’s to MNCs in India and overseas (USA, Australia, and Singapore) such as Lucent, Motorola, Force Computers, Yokogawa etc. Rama’s open source interaction has started in 2001 when his SW team in Force Computers / Motorola was responsible for Linux Support Package (LSP) and Driver development for new blades and their bring up. In addition to product, program and people management, Rama has experience in setting up engineering / product development teams in India, supporting global cross functional teams such as Hardware Design, Manufacturing, Procurement, Marketing etc. and building relationships with partners and vendors.
Rama is currently the Director for Firmware Group of Enterprise Systems Management at Dell India R&D and handles Out of Band (OOB) Management products of Dell Enterprise Servers.
Rama holds M.Sc (TECH) from NIT, Warangal and Executive MBA from IIM-B.
