Ramesh L
Hyderabad
Presently, Center Head (& Vice President- Products), Progress Software's Hyderabad labs, responsible for leading the product development at the Hyderabad Development center. Started the first Progress Hyderabad team of 20 engineers building a new product from scratch in 2004. Returned in 2008 as Center Head. Responsible for restructuring the center into Centers of Excellence model with each center owning a tech horizontal and engaged on multiple products in that area. With specific focus on cross-product capabilities and Common Technology for the SOA/RPM and Data integration products. Since 2008 Grew operations from 70 to nearly 400. Built a formidable product engineering group that now owns half of engineering in the company.
An accomplished Technologist, has over 20 years product engineering and R&D leadership experience. Regularly speaks at tech workshops and seminars in India. Recently co-authored a book on ‘SOA approach to Integration’, published by Packt Publishers- (wrote the chapters on SOA, POA and ESB). Also Adjunct Faculty at IIIT-Hyderabad, teaching courses on middleware technologies and distributed systems.
Chair of ACM Hyderabad Chapter since Jan 2012. Active in industry organizations (Regional council member at Nasscom & Managing committee member at ITsAP & TiE) driving product & startup events/workshops. Part of the National program team for Nasscom Products conclave and ITsAP Hyderabad Software products showcase.