Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas is an Architect and Evangelist getting his hands dirty with emerging technology directions and trends. His general focus area is in distributed systems, with a specialization in cloud computing, mobility including Location-based Services and security. He has spoken on a variety of technical topics at conferences around the world and taught graduate classes in the evening. He also served in the organizing committee for several industry-wide technical conferences. Rags brings with him about 20 years of hands-on software development and about 10 years of architecture and technology evangelism experience. He worked for Digital Equipment Corporation, Sun Microsystems and Intuit. He has worked on several technology areas, including internals of VMS, Unix and NT. He has evangelized and influenced the architecture of a number of technology areas including the early releases of JavaFX, Java, Java EE, Java and XML, Java ME, AJAX and Web 2.0, Java Security and so on. Rags holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Center of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He enjoys running, hiking and eating, especially spicy food.