I drive the Augmented Analytics initiative as part of the Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) offering. Gartner has stated that Augmented analytics is the next wave of disruption in the data and analytics market. Quote from the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms report: As disruptive as visual-based data discovery has been to traditional BI, a third wave of disruption has emerged in the form of augmented analytics, with machine learning (ML) generating insights on… Show more I drive the Augmented Analytics initiative as part of the Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) offering. Gartner has stated that Augmented analytics is the next wave of disruption in the data and analytics market. Quote from the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms report: As disruptive as visual-based data discovery has been to traditional BI, a third wave of disruption has emerged in the form of augmented analytics, with machine learning (ML) generating insights on increasingly vast amounts of data. Augmented analytics also includes natural language processing (NLP) as a way of querying data and of generating narratives to explain drivers and graphics.My team has delivered several innovative features under the Augmented Analytics umbrella. These include:- A Machine Learning platform that allows business analysts with minimal ML expertise to train models as well as consume models from other Oracle ML platforms such as Database ML and the OCI Data Science platform. - Several advanced analytics features that allow business analysts to leverage the OAC platform to derive insights out of complex, unstructured data. These include support for Text Tokenization, Graph analytics, Market Basket analysis, OCI Vision service to analyze images, Time Series forecasting, etc.- Turnkey Insights: Leverage ML and other statistical techniques to support: - Auto Insights: Proactively analyze datasets to identify the most relevant attributes of the dataset and suggest visual insights based on these attributes. - Explain: Get deep insights on specific measures or dimensions in a dataset. For instance, an analyst can explain the Sales measure to find Key Drivers that influence sales, Segments of the population that amplify or reduce sales, and Anomalies in the data. - Right-click Analytics: Allows an analyst to add rich insights such as Clusters, Outliers, Forecast, Trend Line, and a Reference Line to any visualization. Show less

Product Owner for the following components of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure:- Accounts and Provisioning: Subscription management system and a provisioning orchestrator for all Oracle cloud based services. This service supports functionality akin to AWS Organizations/Accounts.- Metering and Quota service: Collects resource consumption, aggregates it, and converts it into billable units across all services from over 22 data centers across the world. This service plays a central role in… Show more Product Owner for the following components of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure:- Accounts and Provisioning: Subscription management system and a provisioning orchestrator for all Oracle cloud based services. This service supports functionality akin to AWS Organizations/Accounts.- Metering and Quota service: Collects resource consumption, aggregates it, and converts it into billable units across all services from over 22 data centers across the world. This service plays a central role in supporting the subscription based metered billing model used across all Oracle Cloud services.- SaaS Control Plane: Instance lifecycle management, Instance inventory, and Entitlement & Usage tracking for all SaaS Services (such as CRM, HCM, ERP, Responsys, etc.).- Telemetry service that collects logs across all cloud service instance from all our data centers, parses them into structured records, indexes them, and makes them searchable. This service uses the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) to serve all the diagnostic needs of our Customers and Operations. - Messaging Service: Provides support for Queues and Topics as a Cloud based multi-tenant service. Show less

The Oracle Cloud hosts several SaaS offerings (such as Oracle CRM, HCM, ERP, WebCenter Connect, etc), PaaS offerings (Weblogic, Database, Web Container), and Common Infrastructure services (Messaging, Email Notification, Caching, Storage, Authorization, etc). I manage a team that is responsible for the following aspects of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure:-- Provisioning Infrastructure: Declarative and extensible model for service-agnostic provisioning of cloud based services. •… Show more The Oracle Cloud hosts several SaaS offerings (such as Oracle CRM, HCM, ERP, WebCenter Connect, etc), PaaS offerings (Weblogic, Database, Web Container), and Common Infrastructure services (Messaging, Email Notification, Caching, Storage, Authorization, etc). I manage a team that is responsible for the following aspects of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure:-- Provisioning Infrastructure: Declarative and extensible model for service-agnostic provisioning of cloud based services. • An XML-schema based blueprint allows cloud based services to declaratively specify the physical footprint requirements and the execution flow for various provisioning lifecycle operations. The blueprint encompasses (a) Business Processing aspects such as Service Offerings, Custom Attributes, Service Associations, Customer Notification Templates, Pricing information, Utility/Overage Billing Information, etc and (b) Physical Provisioning aspects such as Multi-Tenant POD definitions (VMs, Storage Volumes, Network configuration, VM configuration scripts, etc), Tenant placement plug-ins, Per-Tenant footprint creation plug-ins, Monitoring configuration, Identity Management footprint configuration, URL Routing configuration, etc. • A request processing framework and an orchestration engine that realizes the blueprint in a fully automated fashion. • A POD Manager component built on top of an IaaS platform that lays down a virtualized service footprint (VMs, Storage, VLANs, etc), orchestrates per-VM and across-VM configuration, and tracks allocated physical assets in the data center. -- Common Infrastructure Services • Messaging Service: Provides support for Queuing and Publish/Subscribe notions in a cloud based service for applications running within or outside the Oracle Cloud. • Access Control Service: A cloud based service that allows consuming applications to define custom resource namespaces, secure them, and enforce AuthR/AuthZ based on the OAuth protocol. Show less

Cloud Infrastructure Automation:Oracle’s onDemand system is a public cloud infrastructure that will host several SaaS applications such as Oracle CRM, HCM, WebCenter Connect, etc as well as PaaS products such as Weblogic, Database, etc. The product built by my team automates various aspects of the cloud infrastructure. It consists of a general purpose business process orchestration engine that automates various aspects including tenant provisioning, physical hardware provisioning… Show more Cloud Infrastructure Automation:Oracle’s onDemand system is a public cloud infrastructure that will host several SaaS applications such as Oracle CRM, HCM, WebCenter Connect, etc as well as PaaS products such as Weblogic, Database, etc. The product built by my team automates various aspects of the cloud infrastructure. It consists of a general purpose business process orchestration engine that automates various aspects including tenant provisioning, physical hardware provisioning, deployment of software VM template assemblies, service-specific capacity planning, back-office integration for invoicing, Identity Management provisioning, metered billing, resource governors, elastic scaling, etc. Show less

I manage a team that works on a few aspects of the Oracle Beehive Collaboration Server product. Over the past year or so, my team has been working on adding Expertise Management and Social Computing features to the Beehive product.The Expertise Management server crawls artifacts (such as Email messages, Documents, Wiki pages, Blogs, etc) authored by users, converts the binary content in various formats (such as word, pdf, etc) to text as needed, performs linguistic analysis of the… Show more I manage a team that works on a few aspects of the Oracle Beehive Collaboration Server product. Over the past year or so, my team has been working on adding Expertise Management and Social Computing features to the Beehive product.The Expertise Management server crawls artifacts (such as Email messages, Documents, Wiki pages, Blogs, etc) authored by users, converts the binary content in various formats (such as word, pdf, etc) to text as needed, performs linguistic analysis of the content to extract noun phrases, and builds a profile of the user that captures the user's interests and expertise with a confidence attached to each phrase. Users can subsequently search for experts in specific areas and the server acts as a broker to route these search requests in a single-blind fashion to matched user profiles i.e. the matched user's identity is not revealed to the searcher unless the user accepts the request. This unique brokering model ensures privacy while allowing deployments to tap into the knowledge dispersed across the organization.The Social Computing framework we added to Beehive includes support for social networks: explicit (mutual connections as well as non-mutual following), implicit (such as the reporting structure), and derived networks (relationships derived by analyzing artifacts such as email messages, calendar meetings, etc). The framework leverages social networks to provide activity feeds, social bookmarking, popular content (most active, most bookmarked, etc from your connections), recommended content & people (combine my activity with my network's activity to recommend content and people), etc Show less

Beehive, the next generation of Oracle's enterprise collaboration technologies, provides a unified collaboration application and platform comprised of a comprehensive set of integrated, Java-based services running in a J2EE container. Oracle Beehive unifies asynchronous collaboration services such as e-mail, calendar, discussion forums and document management systems with synchronous collaboration services like IM, web conferencing and chat within the context of a team workspace.I… Show more Beehive, the next generation of Oracle's enterprise collaboration technologies, provides a unified collaboration application and platform comprised of a comprehensive set of integrated, Java-based services running in a J2EE container. Oracle Beehive unifies asynchronous collaboration services such as e-mail, calendar, discussion forums and document management systems with synchronous collaboration services like IM, web conferencing and chat within the context of a team workspace.I manage a team with responsibility for the Content Management service, a common Message Bus that is the backbone for all synchronous services (such as IM, Web Conferencing), the Presence service, the user-facing Platform SDK, the Web Services SDK, the Expertise Management service, and parts of a common services layer called Artifact Management. The Artifact Management layer provides functionality like categorization, tagging, locking, versioning, associations, custom attributes, etc across artifact types such as messages, documents, meetings, etc.I was also part of some committees responsible for defining the architecture of several parts of Beehive across the product line. Show less

Oracle Workspaces is a component of Collaboration Suite providing a virtual environment for teams to collaborate on documents, messages, discussions, meetings, etc in a consistent manner within the context of a team space. The product was built as a J2EE application on a persistent database store employing many aspects of J2EE such as JMS, JTA, EJBs and popular J2EE design patterns. It was first shipped as part of OCS 10g and is being used in production by many customers.I led the team… Show more Oracle Workspaces is a component of Collaboration Suite providing a virtual environment for teams to collaborate on documents, messages, discussions, meetings, etc in a consistent manner within the context of a team space. The product was built as a J2EE application on a persistent database store employing many aspects of J2EE such as JMS, JTA, EJBs and popular J2EE design patterns. It was first shipped as part of OCS 10g and is being used in production by many customers.I led the team which was responsible for the design and development of the Oracle Workspaces product. Show less

Oracle Database Workspace Manager (Long Transaction Management): Workspace Manager extends the traditional database short transaction model to encompass Long Duration Transactions. A branched versioning framework for relational data forms the basis for the system that relaxes the isolation of a short transaction while maintaining the rest of the ACID properties. It provides support for collaborative transactions on relational data, what-if analyses, historical versioning, and other benefits… Show more Oracle Database Workspace Manager (Long Transaction Management): Workspace Manager extends the traditional database short transaction model to encompass Long Duration Transactions. A branched versioning framework for relational data forms the basis for the system that relaxes the isolation of a short transaction while maintaining the rest of the ACID properties. It provides support for collaborative transactions on relational data, what-if analyses, historical versioning, and other benefits via a hierarchical long transaction model. The product was first shipped as part of Oracle 9i and is being actively used in production by multiple partners and customers. I was part of a two person team that initiated the project and successfully designed and implemented the product from ground up. The product was used in production by several customers and as the team grew with the product, I assumed the role of Technical Lead. Show less

Oracle Time Series Data Cartridge: This product extends the database server to provide native support for time series data with associated functionality such as custom calendars, analytical functions such as moving averages, rollups, etc. The product was first shipped as part of Oracle 8i and has been used in production by multiple customers.I was part of a five person team and was responsible for designing and implemented Calendaring – a critical component of the product which forms… Show more Oracle Time Series Data Cartridge: This product extends the database server to provide native support for time series data with associated functionality such as custom calendars, analytical functions such as moving averages, rollups, etc. The product was first shipped as part of Oracle 8i and has been used in production by multiple customers.I was part of a five person team and was responsible for designing and implemented Calendaring – a critical component of the product which forms the basis for all date and time manipulation operations in the Time Series cartridge. Show less

Oracle C++ Call Interface (OCCI): I was part of a three person team that designed and developed an initial prototype for an object-oriented interface in C++ to complement the procedural C-language based Oracle Call Interface. The C++ interface provided complete programmatic interactivity with the database using SQL as the underlying language.