Dr. Samiran Chattopadhyay

Professor, Department of IT
Jadavpur University

Academic Expert

Dr. Samiran Chattopadhyay is a professor in the Department of Information Technology, Jadavpur University. He has served as the Head of Department for more than twelve years, and as Joint Director of the School of Mobile Computing and Communication since its inception. A graduate, postgraduate and gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, he received his Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University. He has got two decades of work experience in the capacity of 'Technical Consultant' in reputed industries such as Computer Associates, Interra Systems - India, Agilent, Motorola. He has led the development of an open-source C++ infrastructure and tool set for reconfigurable computing, released under the GNU GPL 3.0 license. He has visited several universities in the United Kingdom as a visiting professor. He has been working on algorithms for security, bioinformatics, distributed and mobile computing, and middleware. He has authored, edited several books and book chapters. Professor Chattopadhyay acted as a programme chair, organising chair and IPC member of over 20 international conferences. He has published more than 120 papers in reputed journals and international peer-reviewed conferences.

Raghubir Bose

Head DevOps, BFSI Technology Advisory Group

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

Industry Expert

Raghubir Bose currently heads the DevOps Group for BFSI Technology Advisory. He is also in-charge of the DevOps Lab for BFSI. He has more than 20 years of experience in the industry and is an alumnus of Jadavpur University. His educational background has a lot to do with DevOps, having passed out of the department of Production Engineering in 1997 he gradually moved from manufacturing to hardcore application development. He is an enterprise architect and a member of the Open Group of Architects. His experience spans from IT project delivery for several fortune 500 companies to setting up a CoE in a startup mode. He has led several CoEs in TCS which include Java CoE for TCS Kolkata, IBM Rational and Portal CoE for TCS Corporate Technology, Enterprise Architect for TCS Tools Group and more.

Raghubir was introduced to DevOps in 2013, and he formed a DevOps CoE in TCS. He has witnessed the evolution of DevOps as a subject area. He has co-authored a book on 'DevOps Assessment' which is in its 2nd edition. The book is well accepted by many thought leaders like Patrick Debois and John Willis.

Ramakrishnan Vedanarayanan

Solutions Architect, Delivery Manager

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

Industry Expert

Ramakrishnan Vedanarayanan is a Google Cloud Professional Architect, PSM I, IBM Certified DevOps Solution Advisor, SAFe Agilist, Advanced ISTQB Certified professional. He is working as Agile Coach/Solution Architect, specialising in DevOps. With more than 15 years of experience in DevOps, he helps customers in making the transition from traditional development practices to a modern set of culture, tools and processes that increase the release frequency and quality of software. He has expertise in Strategic Planning, Process Improvement, Needs Assessment, Test Management, Quality Assurance, Risk Mitigation, Cost & Benefit Analysis, Team Leadership and Consulting.

He is a hands-on and customer-focused team player with a record of achievement in implementing effective strategies, reducing costs, improving user experience, optimising efficiency, strengthening business alliances, and ensuring world-class customer service.

His areas of excellence include Needs Assessment, Test Automation and DevOps Consulting, Business Analysis, Process Improvement, Quality Assurance, Project Management, Risk Mitigation, Cost & Benefit Analysis, Strategic Planning, Requirements Gathering, Team Leadership and RFPs.