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8 years+ present 

Head, Innovations Center, Center of Excellence, Cloud Engineering, Japan & Asia Pacific (JAPAC) R&D

April 2021 - Present Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sreedhara is the Head of Innovations centers, Center of Excellence, Cloud Engineering (OCI), Japan & Asia Pacific at Oracle R&D. The Innovations Center is the cross-functional cloud engineering domain team focused on identifying and exploiting the latest technical trends and then designing/ develop solutions - within Singapore, Japan, India, China, Korea, Australia & New Zealand. We enrichen and Inculcate the culture of innovation across our Centers of excellence, spanning JAPAC. The cloud engineering domain areas are Security, Data management, Infrastructure, Custom applications, packaged applications & Analytics (AI/ML).

 

 

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Started the Innovations Center(s) from Inception in India, Singapore & Australia. We work like a startup.

 

Cloud Technical Domain:

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• Data Science AI/ML, Generative AI

• Analytics

• Infrastructure - Performance, Cloud@Customer, VMWare, Manageability & DRCC

• Data Management - Relational, NoSQL, MySQL, Big Data & Data Integration

• Custom Applications - Hybrid Cloud, Cloud Native & Multi-Cloud

• Packaged Applications - PeopleSoft, JD Edwards & Siebel

• Security - Cloud Infra, Database, Application, IAM, Hybrid & Edge

 

We develop mission critical software for Oracle Cloud in Data Science - AI/ ML, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, IoT, BlockChain, Infra fabric, Cloud Availability - DR/HA, Observability/monitoring, CI/CD, Infra & security.

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Flagship MESHMerize.ai Oracle Cloud Accelerator platform (Asset, Data, Knowledge, AI, Regulatory & Compliance, Configurator & Orchestrator) Fabric includes Unstructured - PDF, Doc, CSV-Excel, Zip, PST, Text, Video, Image &  Structured data - ingestion & management , Gen AI, Search engine, Semantic Chat (RAG, RAG framework (LangChain, DSPy, OCI Gen AI), advanced RAG techniques like REACT, CoT - Chain of thoughts, Evaluation framework - RAGAS, Local LLM Support, Agentic based workflow & Vector DB), Knowledge Graphs with Ontology - chat enabled, Policy management with auditing, Analytics, AI-ChatBot, Integrations to any applications, AI workspace management & Multi-language support (International & Regional Indian languages) was designed & developed. This accelerator is multitude of industries and sectors (Automobiles, Government Specific domains, Transportation systems, Energy Firms, Banking Firms, Media platforms, Healthcare). There are several patent applications filed.

 

• Advisory Board Member for the Center for Digital Transformation | Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Hyderabad India | https:// www.imthyderabad.edu.in/faculty/center-lab https://www.imthyderabad.edu.in/images/faculty/pdf/Sreedhara- Narayanaswamy-Brief-Profile.pdf

 

• Appointed from Oracle as Nodal officer for National eGovernance Division (NeGD) Responsible AI for Youth 2022 - https://responsibleaiforyouth.negd.in/ home on Sept 2nd 2022

 

Head & Global Leader of Database Engineering (Enterprise, Cloud services & Autonomous) Oracle R&D

September 2019 - April 2021 (1 year 8 months) Bengaluru Area, India

 

 

Head & Global Leader of Database Engineering.

 

Led the Database Engineering, Content & release management activities globally ..

 

• Oracle database - Enterprise, Cloud Services & Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP)/Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW)

• Database Engineering systems

Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, High Availability, Real Application Clusters (RAC), RMAN, Data & Index, Transactions, Flashback & Oracle Big Data Appliance

• Database Security

• SPOC for Customer Engagement Program – CAB Database India

• Technical advisor to Autonomous Health Improvements

• Mentoring Oracle Women Leaders (OWL) India Development Center (IDC) members.

 

Chief Software Architect & Global Technology Leader (IC6) - India Development Center - R&D

April 2017 - September 2019 (2 years 6 months) Bengaluru Area, India

 

Chief Software Architect & Global Technology leader (IC6 - highest technical career ladder globally) for the India Development Center – R&D Oracle.

Designed & developed the next generation DR, Performance & scalability solutions for Identity Cloud Service - Oracle Public Cloud/Oracle Cloud Machine based on AI-ML-Deep Learning. Architect for Cloud Security & Identity BU - reference architecture for all cloud services (CASB, IDCS, KMS, New services). The first release of IDCS DR is in production deployment in Oracle Public Cloud. I am very excited to be part of Oracle R&D.

 

Additional responsibilities

 

Technical mentor for Oracle startup cloud accelerator, Governance Cloud Service, Key Management Service, OnPrem IDM, Product Architecture Team (PAT) & Oracle Women Leadership.

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Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India

1 year 6 months

Working group member for Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)

May 2023 - Present 

 

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Dear Expert,

On behalf of the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India, I am delighted to invite you to join us for the first Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Working Group

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1. GPAI brings together leading experts from science, industry, civil society, international organizations, and governments that share values to bridge the gap between theory and practice on Responsible AI by supporting cutting- edge research and applied activities on AI-related priorities.

2. In November 2022, India was appointed the incoming council chair of GPAI at the annual GPAI Summit. As the council chair, India will host the Annual GPAI Summit in December 2023, which will see participation from delegations from 28 GPAI member countries and the EU, Global AI Experts, multilateral organisations, and other relevant stakeholders.

3. As the Council Chair of GPAI, India, with the support of the GPAI Secretariat and the Centres of Excellence, is planning to host a series of working group convenings to raise global awareness around GPAI outputs and enhance knowledge sharing between GPAI working groups and member countries by providing experts a platform to present the working being done by them. In the months leading up to the GPAI annual summit in December 2023, these convenings aim to:

   • Raise global awareness around current and future GPAI work and outputs;

   • Increase collaboration and knowledge sharing between experts and the external ecosystem;

   • Present, Debate, and Discuss EWG’s outputs and future priorities;

   • Promote the adoption of GPAI work and enhance its relevance;

 

Abhishek Singh, IAS President & CEO

National e-Governance Division (NeGD)

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Government of India.

 

Working group member for Future Labs AI Compute capacity India AI

April 2023 - Present Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Vision: For realizing the vison of "Make AI in India & Make AI work for India", streamlined access to compute Infrastructure is critical. Leading AI compute

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infrastructure will act as the kinetic enabler for the startup and innovation ecosystem, helping organizations develop commercially viable AI applications.

 

Objectives for the multi-stakeholder group (workgroup): The model of the compute (services) should address the following considerations:

 

Identify and prioritize use cases that can be addressed using the compute Infrastructure

Mechanisms to ensure adoption by relevant stakeholders such as start-ups, research labs, academic institutions, etc

Establish metrics & evaluation frameworks to measure the impact of the compute infrastructure on start-ups & innovation

Utilizing compute for scaling up and commercialization of AI solutions

 

 

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National eGovernance Division (NeGD) India

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Nodal officer for National eGovernance Division (NeGD) Responsible AI for Youth 2022 India

September 2022 - Present Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Appointed from Oracle as Nodal officer for National eGovernance Division (NeGD) Responsible AI for Youth 2022 - https://responsibleaiforyouth.negd.in/ home

 

https://www.meity.gov.in/content/national-e-governance-division

 

 

Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Hyderabad India Advisory Board Member - Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Hyderabad India

October 2021 - Present (3 years) Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Nominated from Oracle as an Advisory Board Member for the Center for Digital Transformation | Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Hyderabad India | https://www.imthyderabad.edu.in/faculty/center-lab https://www.imthyderabad.edu.in/images/faculty/pdf/Sreedhara- Narayanaswamy-Brief-Profile.pdf

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OpenText

Country Head & General Manager, Customer Experience Management (CEM) Software – R&D OpenText India

April 2016 - March 2017 (1 year) Bangalore & Hyderabad

Global WW Product Owner (R&D Engineering, Product Management, Program Management, Support, Services & Sales) :

 

Output Management product portfolio (CCM) – On-premise, Hybrid Cloud

• Output Server

• Output Distributor

• Web Delivery

• Output Manager for SAP

• Output Manager for Oracle Applications

• Output Manager for OpenView

• International Printing

• Web Console: Job Manager Archive, e-Discovery/Compliance Solutions

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Global WW – Incubation & Innovation R&D Product Engineering of (On- premise, Hybrid Cloud)

 

• Unified 3D Management Printing (U3DMP) – Inception to Design to Product Engineering

• Software Defined Printing (SDP) – Conceptualization of New industry specification – inception to Design to Product Engineering

 

Coordinating the R&D Engineering, Support & Services activities in India Bangalore

• Exstream - Customer Communication Management (CCM)

• TeamSite (WCM)

• Optimost

• MediaBin

• LiquidOffice Hyderabad

• Media Management

• Customer Communication Management (CCM)

• Web Experience Management (WEM)

• Content Hub

• CEM Analytics

 

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3 years 10 months

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Dell

Executive Director & Site Leader, Dell Software Group R&D India

June 2015 - March 2016 (10 months) Bangalore

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Led the Dell Software Group R&D India - Systems Management, Cloud Management, BigData, Information Management & Security Management Product Engineering & Operations.

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Executive Director & GM – ESG Networking Datacenter PD/PI Global (Santa Clara & Chennai) R&D

August 2014 - June 2015 (11 months)

Santa Clara & Chennai

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• Led the Networking R&D India includes Engineering, Architecture Team & Office of CTO,- http://businesswireindia.com/news/news-details/chennai-be- center-excellence-networking-dell/32040

 

• Member of Dell India Leadership Team & Technical Executive Management Team

 

• Led the Dell Networking OS development (FTOS) & platforms for all Data Center Networking switches such as S-Series managed switches (S4810, S4820T, S5000 & S6000), Z-Series cores switches (Z9000), (Z9500), E- Series Virtualized Chassis-based, C-Series chassis based switches & Blade Interconnects - MXL 10/40GbE switch. Revenue of 350 million USD.

 

Executive Director & GM - ESG Networking Software Group Global (Santa Clara & Chennai) R&D

July 2013 - July 2014 (1 year 1 month)

Chennai & Santa Clara

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• Seeded the Networking Software Architecture Team (SAT) & Software research labs in Chennai http://www.dqchannels.com/dell-iit-madras-partner- research-development-program/

 

 

• Created Social Media Customer Connect business portal (complete support infrastructure of WW Dell Networking)

 

• R&D works with Marketing/Sales to help in sales & in customer interactions

 

• All the customer interactions are posted internally which helps the R&D team to understand the customer challenges & come up with Innovative solutions

• CIO events are conducted every quarter

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• Revenue of Dell Networking India doubled in 2014 due to Customer connect & now this success is replicated in APAC, EMEA & America

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• Instrumental in developing the Competitive Analysis of Networking Products (Revenue of 740 million USD – Datacenter, Campus & Wireless products) to make better decisions:

  • Analysis of Product Portfolio & Business Strategy

 

• Open Networking

 

• Roadmap of current features

 

• Emerging technologies (SDN, NFV)

 

• Future technologies (help in acquiring IP or Company)

 

Executive Director & General Manager - Dell Networking R&D India

June 2012 - July 2013 (1 year 2 months)

Chennai Area, India

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• Hired 280 best talented team members in ESG Networking R&D India (includes Directors, Senior Managers/Managers, Senior Principal

Engineers, Principal Engineers, Software Engineers & Test Engineers) http:// www.cxotoday.com/story/dell-to-bolster-chennai-rd-with-200-more-employees- in-fy14/ and mentored several senior leaders successfully

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NetApp

Senior Engineering Director & Site Leader, ONTAP, NetApp R&D India

July 2010 - May 2012 (1 year 11 months) Bengaluru Area, India

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• As Senior Director & Technology leader I led the NetApp R&D OnTap Write anywhere file layout (WAFL) High availability, RAID & storage Efficiency organizations.

 

• Re-architected the Storage Efficiency

 

• Designed & developed Storage Event management system which analyzes millions of events in a day & proactively fixes the support issues (using Hadoop Map reduce). This has been implemented WW NetApp Global Support

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• Formed Storage Architecture Group across all different vertical of OnTap in India. Designed & developed Storage management solutions which were hosted on cloud as SaaS offerings

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13 years 11 months

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Ca Technologies

Chief Architect & Vice President, India Technology Center R&D

September 2008 - July 2010 (1 year 11 months) Hyderabad Area, India

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In this role, I led the complete Ca India Technology center of 1200 members & China Development center for all the business units & product lines for all Product Architecture. I managed all the Ca products & was involved in the acquisition of cloud companies like 3Tera. I Led Technical talent development

- senior engineers/architects to work on the open source platform. I was involved in design/development of Web service protocols (WSRA - WS- Transfer, WS-SOAPAssertions, WS-Metadata Exchange, WS-Fragment, WS- Eventing, WS-Event Descriptions & WS-Enumeration)

 

Vice President & Business Unit Executive SM R&D April 2007 - September 2008 (1 year 6 months) Hyderabad Area, India

• Under the leadership of John Swainson (Ca, CEO), I was given opportunity to lead the Business Service Optimization & Service Management as the Vice President & Business Unit Executive with 450+ team members. I led the development of Enterprise IT Management - Network management/Data Center management product lines of Ca

 

– Unicenter & conceptualize new products such as Configuration Management Database (CMDB).

 

• As technology VP for this organization, I was involved in talent development/ retention, strategic product planning, managing products, and budget planning for all the development, QA, product management, architecture & Sustenance teams. I worked across boundaries with US/Europe teams & built solid confidence level with PLM/CEO to invest more in India

 

Director, Business Unit Head BSO R&D June 2004 - April 2007 (2 years 11 months) Hyderabad Area, India

 

• Started the Ca India development center in 2004. I was instrumental in hiring the best talent of 500+ team members involved in development, QA & Sustenance Engineering of Ca products.

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Involved in all design & development of All Fusion product lines such as Advantage Gen, Advantage Plex, Advantage Joe

 

Architect, Development Tools R&D January 2000 - June 2004 (4 years 6 months) Plano, Texas, USA

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Lead Architect for Advantage Joe EJB deployment to various J2EE compliant Application servers such as JBoss, Webshpere, Weblogic, JRun, iPlanet , Tomcat.

 

Senior Technologist, Development tools R&D September 1996 - January 2000 (3 years 5 months) Plano, Texas, USA

 

Lead Senior Technologist for Advantage Gen & instrumental in designing/ developing the Component Based Development (CBD).

 

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Texas Instruments

Team Lead, CASE Tool IEF R&D

August 1993 - September 1996 (3 years 2 months) Bengaluru Area, India

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Team Lead – Worked in Design Automation Division & Information Engineering Facility (CASE TOOL – IEF). Led the IEF CASETOOL porting to all Unix platforms (Sequent, Digital AIX, HPUX, Digital & NCR). Texas Instruments Software Division was acquired by Sterling Software & Sterling Software was acquired by Computer Associates (Ca Technologies)

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Wipro Info Tech

Senior Software Engineer

April 1992 - August 1993 (1 year 5 months) Bengaluru Area, India

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Worked in Wipro Info Tech, India - Network Systems Division (NSD) as Customer Support Executive. Responsible of debugging, root-cause & fixing the Sustenance Engineering issues of Sun Compilers.

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L&T Infotech

Software Engineer

September 1991 - April 1992 (8 months) Mumbai Area, India

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Campus recruit - worked in L&T Mumbai as Graduate Engineer Trainee on ES9000 platform. Designed & developed the first memory resident IBM keyboard mapping application.

 

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