Delivers infrastructure and application software. Designed and developed advanced software systems for medical image processing, financial data warehouse, enterprise service bus and transactional object persistence. Currently involved in Cloud Infrastructure.Strives to create software that are reliable, maintainable and extensible. Believes that Quality emerges out of superior design followed by disciplined execution and never by chance. Loves the big picture. Loves the details. Always asking: How can we do better? Where can we innovate? How can we fuse knowledge from other domains? Embraces a systematic, process-driven, tool-enriched software development process. Strong believer of Test-driven Development, prefers Agile methods but understands its limitations as well. Led teams to execute successful development project with confidence and certainty without drama or panic. Leads from the front. Blessed by the seniors, peers and juniors across three continents. Their goodwill has elected me as a Chairman of Apache OpenJPA project. Their goodwill has seen me as a member of Expert Group Member of JPA and JDO specification for Java object persistence.Proud Memories: Growing a 20-member team in Bangalore to build a great Medical Image Processing Platform for Siemens at the dawn of offshore software development era. Initiating an offshore software development center for Dresdner Bank in Bangalore. Building an indigenous Automatic Speech Recognition System using Neural Network on VAX/VMS cluster during doctoral research in late 1990's.Specialties: a) Machine Learning, Statistical Pattern Recognition & Data Analysisb) Relational & Object Databases & Object-Relational (O-R) Mappingc) Enterprise Application Integrationd) Queueing Theory, Hidden Markov Model, Neural Network, Vector Quantization