DevOps Conference

Balaji Kalyansundaram is a passionate leader of Software Engineering - development and operations. Balaji was a hands-on developer for 11 years and then leading platform and development teams for the last 5 years. Balaji started his career in Australia, working on eCommerce, Government Services, Travel, and BFSI industries, for 13 years. Since moving back to India, Balaji is working at AstraZeneca's IT centre. Balaji was introduced to Agile 11 years back, and it has become a part of his life. Balaji believes DevOps is an extension of the Agile practices and building trust between Development and Operations team by Automation. Balaji is an advocate of collaboration and enjoys contributing back to the IT community through Meetups (DevOps, Agile) and Conferences.

C. Venkata Subramanyam comes with 26 years of experience in IT with diversified functions and associated with companies like Zenith, Redington, Serena and Infragistics. Venkata a Vivid Speaker with a pragmatic approach highlighting the practical aspects of business delivery with a combination of technology and psychology aspects. He is Analytic & business strategist with a successful track record in driving multimillion revenue generation initiatives.. Founded InfoSeption in 2013 with the goal of attaining the name as Perfect IT Enabler & Solution provider in UI UX & DevOps Space.

Kapil Apshankar is a Silicon Valley technologist and technology innovator. He has spent a significant portion of his highly successful career in the Silicon Valley, California, the hotbed of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Kapil has worked with Fortune 500 companies for over fifteen years. He has coached and mentored CxO and IT leadership teams implement Enterprise DevOps to gain organizational agility, engineering transformation and business impact.

Kapil is a prolific author and a much sought after speaker at business and technology conferences in United States and India. He is a best selling author of "Done! The Art of Managing Priorities".

Ramkumar 'Ram' Ramachandran is the Director & CIO of technology startup Internettechies. Ram is Quality & Technology Evangelist who has been in the IT field for more than two decades. He is an IIM-C SMP Alumni and a qualified CISA, CSQA and PMP. He has provided Software Delivery Assurance services globally in more than 10 countries viz US, UK, France, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Bahrain, Kuwait, Philippines etc.  He is also a SAFe Agilist and has handled software delivery for various domains and technologies. He has worked with various organizations viz. KPMG, HCL, Polaris and Renault Nissan before taking up the current entrepreneurial role. He is also a prolific writer and has various posts, blogs and articles to his credit in LinkedIn and international magazines on varied IT subjects.   Ram is also the past President of Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) Chennai and its current Core Committee Member. He plays a very active role in interacting with Academy to keep the Faculty / Students updated on current trends in the IT field. He has done sessions for VIT, SRM, NIT and more. Ram loves books and travel, when not pursuing more serious activities.

Srimathi has more than 8 years of experience in building web/mobile applications and systems integration using agile methodologies, enabling development teams for improving business operations, focusing primarily on solving compelling business problems. Currently she is working as a solution Consultant at Sahaj Software Solutions. Prior to joining Sahaj, Srimathi has worked for technology behemoths like Oracle and Dell as well as mid-sized consulting firms. She is adept in Extreme Programming (XP) practices like pair programming, test-driven development and continuous integration. 

Suresh GP, M-Tech is currently the Founder & Managing Director at TaUB Solutions He has close to 17 Years of IT experience with 8 years at Hewlett Packard (HP). He has wealth of experience in different facets of IT Service Management, Business Relationship Management, IT Governance, Project & Program Management and ISO Standards. Over the years, he has performed diversified roles that included ITSM Consultant/Solution Architect/ Program Manager/Business Consultant and Architecture & Standards Governance Manager. With ideal blend of experience in Infrastructure Management domain and Managed Services, he continues to be a trusted advisor for Clients Worldwide. To complement his extensive experience, he has earned wide range of certifications that include ITIL V3 Expert, CGEIT, PMP, BRMP, CASM, DevOps He is a regular blogger and speaker in National & International Forums like itSMF Australia, SITS, ITSMUK, itSMFNZ, itSMF USA He also serves as Regional Leader for Business Relationship Management Institute (BRMI) and was awarded the itSMF Contributor of the award by itSMF Singapore.

With 20+ years of global professional IT and business experience, Syed Hassan has specialized in enhancing business results using IT and next generation technologies like Cloud, Analytics and DevOps as enablers. He has led IT teams focusing on IT Strategy formulation and execution, Application Services, Infrastructure Services, large SAP implementations, Cloud migration, Analytics, Supply Chain and Finance transformation programs across multiple continents. 

Hassan possesses a strong business/functional/domain experience gained by heading businesses/P&L, successfully leading Supply Chain operational teams and setting up of Supply Chain centers of excellence and Finance Shared Services centers.  He has a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Masters in Computer Applications, Executive MBA from Indian Institute of Management, PMP and ITIL Certifications.  His areas of expertise are IT Strategy, Business Transformation and remodeling, Program Management, IT Service Management and building IT systems/process reengineering and management in a multi-cultural multi-regional environment. Supply Chain is another key area of strength and expertise.

Vivek Ganesan is the author of the book Blameless Continuous Integration and a secret ‘superhero’. He lives in Hyderabad and spends his leisure time envisioning and writing about technology and agile software development. Vivek is an agile practitioner. He is a Certified Agile Coach, SAFe Agilist, Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), a learner and a public speaker too. He spoke at Agile India 2015, Discuss Agile Conferences, XP Conference, Business Agility Roadshow 2017, BizDevOps Master Webinar Series etc.