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Ramesh has 16 years of Systems engineering and R&D management experience in technology intensive product development organizations including Sonic Software (Technical Director- India Dev Center), Pramati Technologies (VP, Engineering) and Informix (Principal Engineer). Ramesh has full life-cycle experience setting up and managing product development organizations and motivating high-caliber engineering teams. He has strong insight into Systems software, Middleware-technology, Database internals, Internet Architectures and frameworks. Ramesh has led engineering efforts building software infrastructure products at Pramati and Sonic Software. After a brif engagement with Sonic/Progress, Ramesh is now VP-Middleware Technologies at Pramati, driving the product direction and setting up a new Technology Consulting business around Middleware Systems.

Ramesh has worked with several organizations in India and in US including IBM, Lever, Compaq, TCS, Informix and Integra.

Ramesh is an accomplished Technologist and evangelist regularly speaking at workshops and seminars. He is active in Tech fora, JCP and SPEC organizations. Member of several Standards Expert groups including J2EE 1.4 and is a founding member of ebXMLIndia.org and hyd-eclipse.org. Ramesh is actively engaged with academia and researchers and is an Adjunct Faculty at IIIT-H teaching two courses on Middleware systems.

Ashwin Palaparthi has more than 10 years of experience in the IT domain. Started career as a trainer and then worked/consulted for several companies as a technologist. Spent 5 years in AppLabs, as a Project Lead, Manager, Principal Architect and then as an AVP. Expertise areas include Software Architecture, Software Security and Software Testing. Founded ValueMinds in 2006 with the vision to build a valuable knowledge-centric IT company. Currently does consulting/training in several companies in the Hyderabad region and is also building a knowledge-portal on Software Testing by the name testersdesk.com

Has given several tech talks in International Conferences (like ICSTEST, 2004 in London). Published several articles on Test Harnesses etc. Passionate about Test Engineering, an emerging area.

Information Architecture & Rich Internet Application

Venky Chennapragada heads the Software Architecture Practice at Keane India. During his 21 year professional career Venky has grown from a Software Engineer to a Solution Architect, Data Architect, EAI architect and spearheaded many successful implementations in various domains. He led many sales proposal campaigns in the US State Government Markets.

He began his career as a Scientist at Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore Center and was behind architecting and building successful mission critical Solar panel Deployment Mechanisms for the first indigenously built Indian National Communication Satellite (INSAT).

Venky while working at MCI, USA was one of the Solution Architects in architecting a automated Vehicle Emission System. This system tests more than 70% of vehicles in USA. This system handles millions of transactions per hour and was responsible for cutting harmful emissions into atmosphere and was responsible for reducing fraud.

Venky as a Data warehouse architect was responsible for building one of the largest data warehouses for the vehicle emission system handling terabytes of data. These DW reports were mandated by EPA in USA for awarding Transport Dollars to states.

Venky was responsible as a EAI architect in building a HUB-SPOKE architecture for many fortune 100 companies using state of art Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). Using the middle ware tools like WEB Methods the Enterprise’s ERP systems: PeopleSoft, SAP and ORACLE were integrated into AT Systems.

Venky has MS (CAD) and MS (Computer Science) degrees from Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA. He contributes regularly to Keane internal magazine and talks to press on architecture services trends and capabilities at various forums like NASSCOM, and educational institutions like IIITs.