DevOps Conference

Dhananjaya K is the Vice President of Service Delivery at MicroGenesis.  He leads a team of IT Specialists in mentoring and consulting to Corporate, Defence and PSU clients in the area of ALM, DevOps, Software and Systems Engineering.

He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry spanning a variety of assignments and roles involving the business and technical area's of the entire software and systems development life cycle.

Over the last 16 years, he has been helping clients in the use of best practices, processes and tools, architecting, designing and building of robust systems, building competency centres (setting up of COE's),  and applications using leading Solutions from IBM, HP, Atlassian and others. He is an IBM Certified IT Specialist and his areas of specialization are System and Software Engineering, ALM, DevOps, Architecting, Process Implementation, Configuration & Change Management and Software & System Testing.

Partial list of clientele where Dhananjay provided consulting services, ANZ, Pricol Medical Electronics, GE Healthcare, Delphi Automotive, Mercedese Benz, Mahindra and Mahindra, Visteon, Fidelity, Juniper Networks, Safran, L & T , Alcatel, Sasken, Tataelxsi, IBM India, IBM EGYPT, Robert Bosch, Infotech, Invensys, Etisalat, Wipro, DRDO labs and many more.

Dhananjay has conducted numerous trainings, workshops, seminars on Disciplined Agile Delivery, Rational Unified Process, Best practices for Systems and Software Engineering. He was speaker at IBM RSDC, ISACA Bangalore Chapter, India Software Testing conference and many more.

Jeganathan Swaminathan, in short Jegan, is an Author, Freelance Software Consultant, Corporate Trainer and Founder of TekTutor. He has 17 years of IT industry experience. He also works as Freelance SCRUM Coach for various product giants around the globe with CSM, CSPO, CSD and CSP Certifications from Scrum Alliance.

He is a polyglot software professional and his areas of interest include a wide range of C++, C#, Ruby and Java technologies. He is well known for JUnit, Mockito, PowerMock, GTest, GMock, CppUnit, Cucumber, SpecFlow, Qt, QML, POSIX – Pthreads, TDD, BDD, ATDD, Docker, Spring, Spring Boot, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) & DevOps.

Jegan is a regular speaker at SCRUM and other technical conferences.

Ashok Kumar Mysore heads the Business Excellence for APAC Multi-Industry and Government Business Unit and India Agile & DevOps COE at CGI. Prior roles involved Transformation Director and Global SDM work stream Leader at CGI.
He has 23+ years of wide experience in strategy development & leadership position in the areas of Consulting, Business and Service Excellence, Account management, Organization Integration & Change management, Transition & Transformation,  Continuous improvement through DevOps, Agile, Lean, Six sigma and Kaizen.

Ashok Mysore was recognized as the Most Influential Agile Management Professional and nominated for India Agile Awards 2015 in the category “Agile Leader of the Year 2015. Audited and moderated by KPMG.Accredited Coach and trained over 4500 members across globe.

He is anearly adopters of Devops and certified DevOps Professional, Scrum Master (CSM®) , Agile Service Manager (CASM®) , MSP & PRINCE2 Practitioner, ITIL® v3 Expert, ITIL v2 Service Manager and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He is renowned international speaker which has led to him being invited to present at numerous international conferences and he has published several management related articles. He presents and writes regularly on the subject of DevOps, Agile and Service Management and is an active member of professional bodies working at the forefront of the industry. 
He holds an MBA Degree in Information Technology. Leading Professional Service Firms and Design Thinking & Innovation from IIMA. Executive Sr.Leadership Coaching at IIMB. AMP and Transformational Leadership from ISB
His interests focus on the intersection of development, operations, design, and business.

Priyank Gupta is a polyglot solution architect with Sahaj Software Solutions with close to 14 years of experience. He has spent his formative years building complex systems that operate at scale. He has worked with enterprises and start-ups across the world alike to sketch their digital strategy across platforms in his consulting role. A strong proponent of agility in business with technology at center, Priyank has delivered solutions spanning across distributed systems, mobile and web platforms. He contributes and maintains several open source projects actively and speaks at conferences often across diverse subjects.

Priyank believes that ability to deliver business value and experience seamlessly and continuously is one of the key goals for a business and DevOps is foundational to that capability. In various roles, he has built and mentored teams to build continuous value and experience delivery channels for business using diverse technologies and paradigms.

Ranjith Tharayil is an accomplished innovator, software craftsman and an inspirational servant leader, with over a decade's experience in the software industry. He is currently the Head of Technology Consulting, SolutionsIQ and specializes in strategizing and planning DevOps transformation. He is a popular conference speaker and in 2016 he was appointed by Association for Computing Machinery as ACM distinguished speaker for a term of 3 years. He is also a founding member of one of the fastest growing agile technical community in India, the Agile Technical Group . Ranjith has been an integral part of the R & D departments in large scale product companies and has authored 8 patents and several publications across different domains he has touched.

Ravishankar N is one of the key contributors to a DevOps consulting offering in his organization. He provides advisory services in Agile solution development and DevOps transformation to as well as conducts DevOps and Agile assessments.

Ravishankar provides consulting services for IT organizations of global repute in improving their IT effectiveness leading to business benefits. He specializes in Agile Software Development methodology, DevOps consulting, Quality Process Improvement, Change Management and Program Management.

Sharath Kumar Battaje is a Technologist by profession but inquisitive by habit, lean thinker, person who challenges the status quo and had success by pushing the limits, of the way we think of architecture patterns, Development methodologies,use of tools in SDLC etc. A lucky technologist , to be present and adapt right technologies and changes at the right time, be it be, Virtualisation, DevOps movement, Cloud , Continuous delivery , Agile , SOA, Micro services etc. 

At times confused but composed to find solutions which are not hard to explain and elegant and simple to implement and manage. Be it be products or services, striving hard to question the status quo and understand to take ownership and accountability to showcase the best in class.

A curious enthusiast who finds hard to spend many days without joy of accomplishment of doing something good and new!!. Thus been part of seed teams of multiple startups and setups which allows you to be at the edge in all aspects!!.
 

Tathagat Varma is one of the highly sought-after public speaker, accomplished thought leader, agile transformation leader, published author and startup mentor. He has trained over 5000+ professionals, delivered 200+ public talks and conference papers, published 150+ blogs and articles, mentored over 100+ startups, and published a book ("Agile Product Development", 2015)A product leader and technologist with 25+ years experience, Tathagat has played significant technical and leadership roles , including VP for Strategic Process Innovations (24[7] Innovation Labs), Head of Business Operations / GM and Country Head (Yahoo!, NetScout, Network General), Director of Engineering / Group Head (McAfee, Huawei), Product Manager (Network General, Huawei, Philips), Software Architect / Tech Lead (Philips, Siemens), Computer Scientist (DRDO) and Process Coach / Agile Transformation Leader (Yahoo!, NetScout, Huawei and Philips).

Vijayalakshmi Venkataraman has recently joined Wipro Digital as Digital Delivery Head for ENU & Consumer markets. Prior to this, she was working with Ciber where she led the ADM Practice and Application Transformation Services Global Delivery for North America and Intl. markets including incubating Agile/DevOps, IoT, and Cognitive Services. Viji’s career journey of over 20+ years spans diverse roles encompassing, Global Delivery, Practice Head, Pre-Sales, Business Development, entrepreneurship, and startup practice formation.  Her core expertise is in building a culture of innovation, motivating and leading high-performing Delivery team. On the personal front, she loves nature, wildlife, yoga and playing Veena.

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.