Pavitra Maras leads the development and delivery of System Management products for Power Servers as part of Cognitive Systems at IBM. She has led the team working across the development of the Hardware Management Console, Ansible on Power Platform, and DevOps with extensive experience in Embedded Systems, Firmware development, and Validation. Pavitra has been responsible for Program, Release, and People Management including function deliveries, across several IBM Power releases.Pavitra has around 17 years of Industry experience with 15+ years at IBM Systems. Earlier in her career with IBM, she was writing Firmware microcode for Flexible Service processor for components that comprised of event handling, Surveillance, Virtual serial operations, File I/O Handling, Persistent hardware repository. Before IBM, Pavitra was working for Texas Instruments toolset development and validation from Wipro Technologies. Pavitra has PG Dip in Embedded systems from C-DAC with Bachelors of Engineering from Bangalore Institute of Technology.Based in Bangalore, Pavitra is a go-getter, an enthusiast with strong leadership skills who enjoys coaching and mentoring people at IBM.