<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>People Overview on DevCarnival</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/</link><description>Recent content in People Overview on DevCarnival</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><atom:link href="http://devcarnival.com/people/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Aditya Sharma</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/adityasharma/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/adityasharma/</guid><description>I am a Senior Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience leading product development and distribution. Currently, I work at Wayfair designing and building scalable, high-performance solutions using modern Cloud technologies. Previously, I was a founding member of the core app suite team at HotWax Systems.
🔭 I’m currently working on open source projects and scalable cloud architectures. 🌱 I’m currently learning System Design and Cloud Native Technologies. 💬 Ask me about Javascript, React, Vue.</description></item><item><title>Anand Babu</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/anandbabur/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/anandbabur/</guid><description>Purpose-driven software generalist with 15+ years of experience, with expertise in both high-level application development and low-level real-time &amp;amp; embedded systems across various domains such as Telecom, Automotive, Textile, Defense, Aerospace, and Medical.
Proven track record in leading cross-functional teams, managing IT operations at scale, and driving digital transformation initiatives in international environments. Deep expertise in automotive software and IT strategy. Passionate about aligning IT with business goals, building high-performance teams, and ensuring secure, scalable infrastructure.</description></item><item><title>K Siva Prasad Reddy</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/ksivaprasadreddy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/ksivaprasadreddy/</guid><description>Siva is a Developer Advocate at JetBrains with over 19 years of experience building scalable, distributed enterprise systems. His career spans hands-on software development, architecture, and cloud-native system design across domains such as banking and e-commerce.
He has deep expertise in the Java ecosystem and modern backend development using monolithic, microservices, and event-driven architectures, with strong emphasis on code quality and scalability.
In his current role as a Developer Advocate, Siva focuses on empowering developers by simplifying complex concepts, creating educational content, and bridging the gap between engineering and developer communities.</description></item><item><title>Micheal Joshuva</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/michealjoshuva/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/michealjoshuva/</guid><description>Micheal Joshuva is the Founder &amp;amp; CEO of MICH JOSH CYBERSECURITY Pvt. Ltd. and the Founder of the AI-SEC Community Foundation, a rapidly growing nonprofit community dedicated to advancing AI security and cybersecurity awareness. With over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity, governance, risk, compliance, penetration testing, and AI security, he has worked with leading global organizations, including EY, Infosys, and Wipro, delivering security and compliance initiatives across diverse industries.</description></item><item><title>Sathish Kumar Thiyagarajan</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/sathish/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/sathish/</guid><description>Software architect specialized in building modern Cloud-native applications, practicing Open Source technologies both by consuming as well as contributing. I believe speaking about/listening to technology is the best way to learn and you can find me doing the same in meetups/conferences around Chennai, Bengaluru, and Singapore. An active member of the Bangalore Java user group, spoken at various international conferences. I enjoy producing quality software using Continuous Delivery, TDD, Design Systems, UX, and modern engineering practices.</description></item><item><title>Sree Sharmila T</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/sree-sharmila/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/sree-sharmila/</guid><description>Dr. Sharmila&amp;rsquo;s academic journey is marked by outstanding achievements. She earned her Ph.D. degree from Anna University, Chennai, specializing in the Faculty of Information and Communication Engineering, in July 2013. Her pursuit of knowledge includes a Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Annamalai University, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University.
With a profound passion for research, Dr. Sharmila has made significant contributions to the fields of computer vision, image processing, and machine learning techniques.</description></item><item><title>Thamaraikanni P</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/thamaraikanni/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/thamaraikanni/</guid><description>Purpose-driven Solution Architect with 20+ years of experience, with expertise spanning scalable application architecture and high-availability distributed systems across the fast-moving travel-tech domain, where reliability, performance, and scale are non-negotiable.
Proven track record in architecting resilient microservices, leading engineering teams from concept to production, and progressing from Tech Lead to Solution Architect at lastminute.com. Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and applied AI — currently driving the adoption of intelligent agents through Spring AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).</description></item><item><title>Udayani V</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/udayani/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/udayani/</guid><description>I am a software engineer focused on Spring Boot, developer tooling, and AI-powered application development. Over the years, I have had the opportunity to build and deploy cloud-native Spring Boot applications, developing a strong interest in developer productivity, OpenRewrite, and the broader Spring ecosystem. I have also been exploring Spring AI to understand practical ways of integrating AI capabilities into Spring applications.
In my previous roles, I worked on Spring IDE support for VS Code and Eclipse, helping improve developer productivity when working with Spring Boot applications in IDEs.</description></item><item><title>Hari Nikesh</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/hari-nikesh/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/hari-nikesh/</guid><description>Highly Skilled Software Developer with a Passion for Programming. Innovative, adaptable, and driven, I am a highly skilled software developer who is capable of developing software from scratch. With a deep love for programming and a knack for quickly learning and adapting to new environments, I bring a wealth of expertise and a passion for technological advancement to every project I undertake. I hold a degree in Computer Science or a related field, which has provided me with a strong foundation in software engineering principles, algorithms, and data structures.</description></item><item><title>Manickalai Rajan</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/manickalai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/manickalai/</guid><description>I specialize in building and scaling product engineering teams that deliver AI-powered fintech platforms. With over a decade of hands-on experience across organizations such as IBM, ICICI, TATA AIG, and TATA-AIA, I have successfully led cross-functional engineering teams through complex initiatives — ranging from cloud-native payment systems and SaaS platforms to AI-driven solutions in Forex, remittance, lending, insurance, and digital commerce
What I bring to the table: → Product Engineering Leadership — I architect, coach, and grow high-performing teams across UI, Backend, QA, DevOps, and Data Engineering.</description></item><item><title>Ravindran P</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/ravindran/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/ravindran/</guid><description>A quick learner with credible analytical and problem solving skills. Handled live projects in in Ruby, Python, Java, Ember.js, React and D3. Founding team of a AI/ML driven startup company that focuses on automated purchasing in supermarket chains with an aim to optimize inventory (2016-2017).</description></item><item><title>Rohan J</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/rohan/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/rohan/</guid><description>Backend Engineer and DevOps practitioner at SAP Ariba with 3+ years building production systems. Design and maintain RESTful APIs handling 11,000+ req/hr across 4 global regions (US, EU, KSA, India), manage CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps for 2 concurrent projects, and built the team&amp;rsquo;s observability platform from scratch using ELK Stack — actively used in production for incident triage and SLA tracking.
Also responsible for end-to-end performance testing across the product using Gatling, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure automation.</description></item><item><title>Samir Kamerkar</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/samir/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/samir/</guid><description>Leading the strategy for Java, .NET, and other key Cloud Runtimes on Ubuntu, by moving developer tool chains up the value chain, at Canonical. My team is improving the distro support, security and developer experience for these language runtimes, to make Ubuntu the Cloud DevSecOps platform of choice, for developers and devops teams worldwide.
Led the transformation of IBM&amp;rsquo;s SDKs for Java Technology to IBM Semeru Runtimes. Led the business of a global (Japan, India, UK, US and Canada) organization of 150+, delivering differentiation in cloud runtime technologies for hybrid cloud platform, through open source.</description></item><item><title>Saravana Kumar Vithyananthan</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/saro/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/saro/</guid><description>A quick learner with credible analytical and problem solving skills. Handled live projects in in Ruby, Python, Java, Ember.js, React and D3. Founding team of a AI/ML driven startup company that focuses on automated purchasing in supermarket chains with an aim to optimize inventory (2016-2017).</description></item><item><title>Thiru Murugan</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/thiru/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/thiru/</guid><description>Self motivated person having immense passion to provide high quality software. Trained in functional programming using Core Java 8. Actively solves programming puzzles.</description></item><item><title>Arun Prakash</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/arun/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/arun/</guid><description>Arun Prakash M is the Founder &amp;amp; CEO of GUVI (Grab Your Vernacular Imprint), an EdTech initiative incubated at IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad. With over 18 years of technology leadership and engineering experience, Arun is a passionate advocate for democratizing developer education in vernacular languages.
Through GUVI, he has empowered millions of learners and established deep ties between academic institutions and high-growth technology companies. Within DevCarnival&amp;rsquo;s Academia initiative, Arun helps drive industry-relevant pedagogy, collaborative coding programs, and developer empowerment for academia across India.</description></item><item><title>Mutheeshwaran S</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/mutheeshwaran/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/mutheeshwaran/</guid><description>Mutheeshwaran has more than a decade of experience in IT. He has worked in multiple global engagements of SAP implementation. In his current role, he takes care of AI adoption and AI initiatives for Infosys Microsoft Practice. He also leads TechCohere Chennai Chapter which is a flagship initiative for Infosys CTO office to evangelize tech community building within Infosys.</description></item><item><title>Dinesh</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/dinesh/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/dinesh/</guid><description>Dinesh is an educator and practitioner with Zoho Schools of Learning, a pioneering vocational education initiative by Zoho Corporation that focuses on hands-on software development, experiential learning, and practical problem-solving.
He champions alternative, skill-first educational pathways that empower students and faculty to build real-world software products, bridging conventional academic curriculums with rigorous software engineering standards.</description></item><item><title>Abdul Salam Mohamed Kani</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/abdul-salam/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/abdul-salam/</guid><description>Abdul Salam Mohamed Kani is an engineering director with more than 20 years in financial services technology. He has led engineering across banking and enterprise finance platforms, focused on high-volume data processing, distributed systems, and resilience at scale. His work spans the platform foundations that let large organisations deliver mission-critical software continuously and safely. He now leads efforts at the intersection of enterprise platforms and applied AI, building agentic systems and multi-agent workflows that reshape how software is designed, delivered, and governed — with a particular focus on introducing autonomy into regulated environments without sacrificing reliability or accountability.</description></item><item><title>Dr. T. R. Reshmi</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/reshmi-tr/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/reshmi-tr/</guid><description>Dr T R Reshmi is serving as a Scientist ‘F’ in Cryptology and Computing Research Group of Society for Electronic Transactions and Security (SETS), under office of principal scientific adviser to GoI.
With a rich professional background spanning 14 years, Reshmi has accumulated diverse experience in industry, academia, and R&amp;amp;D organizations. Her research interests encompass Blockchain, Malware Analysis, IoT, IPv6 co-existence in Next Generation Networks, AI for Cybersecurity, and more.</description></item><item><title>Geethayazhini K</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/geethayazhini/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/geethayazhini/</guid><description>Geethayazhini is a technology and AI Architect at Infosys with over 12 years of experience in software engineering, enterprise application development, and AI. She began her career as a Java developer and progressed into leadership roles, delivering solutions across the insurance, steel, and aviation domains for global clients, including on-site consulting in France.
Over recent years, she has specialized in Generative AI, designing and implementing RAG pipelines, agentic AI solutions, and LLM-based applications.</description></item><item><title>Jennifer Aruldhas</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/jennifer-aruldhas/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/jennifer-aruldhas/</guid><description>Jennifer is a seasoned senior project manager and scrum master with over 20 years of expertise in delivering complex, high-impact initiatives. She is recognized for her ability to tailor project approaches to address diverse business challenges effectively.</description></item><item><title>Madhanraj Jeyapragasam</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/madhanraj/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/madhanraj/</guid><description>Madhanraj is a seasoned IT strategist and enterprise architect with a passion for cloud transformation, AI-driven operating models, infrastructure modernization, and large-scale IT strategy. Known for bridging technology innovation with business impact.</description></item><item><title>Manjunathan Raman</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/manjunathan/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/manjunathan/</guid><description>Manjunathan Raman is an experienced technology professional with more than 22 years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, big data, search, and enterprise technology solutions. He currently works with Lowe’s India, where he contributes to solving complex business and data challenges through scalable engineering, analytics, and emerging technologies.</description></item><item><title>Mohammed Rafee Tarafdar</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/mohammed-rafee-tarafdar/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/mohammed-rafee-tarafdar/</guid><description>Mohammed Rafee Tarafdar is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Infosys, where he leads the company&amp;rsquo;s technology vision, innovation strategy, emerging technology initiatives, and platform engineering efforts. He is responsible for helping global enterprises navigate large-scale digital, cloud, and AI transformations while building future-ready technology capabilities within Infosys.
At Infosys, Rafee founded and scaled the Strategic Technology Group, a global organization of technology leaders, architects, and power programmers focused on delivering complex engineering, cloud, digital, and AI programs for some of the world&amp;rsquo;s largest enterprises.</description></item><item><title>Muthukumaran Navaneethakrishnan</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/muthukumaran/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/muthukumaran/</guid><description>I solve engineering problems using software.
For the past 25 years I’ve worked on systems that needed fixing, scaling, or redesigning — from legacy platforms to modern cloud architectures.
Most of my work involves understanding how systems behave in production, simplifying architectures that have become too complex, and improving how teams build and ship software.
This includes:
Refactoring large codebases Improving performance and system reliability Designing scalable architectures Reducing delivery friction through automation and CI/CD Integrating new capabilities like AI into existing platforms I primarily work in the Java ecosystem (mostly Spring), along with JavaScript and Go.</description></item><item><title>Perumal Natarajan Krishnamoorthy</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/perumal-krishnamoorthy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/perumal-krishnamoorthy/</guid><description>Seasoned automation and AI consultant with overall IT experience of 20 years. Enabling IT delivery teams in transforming their services with AI first approach in both IT Operations and SDLC space.</description></item><item><title>Prof. Kamakoti Veezhinathan</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/kamakoti/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/kamakoti/</guid><description>Prof. Kamakoti Veezhinathan is the Director of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), one of India&amp;rsquo;s leading institutions for higher education, research, and innovation. An alumnus of IIT Madras, he earned both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the institute and joined its faculty in 2001. He assumed office as Director of IIT Madras in January 2022.
A distinguished researcher and academic leader, Prof. Kamakoti&amp;rsquo;s areas of expertise include Computer Architecture, Information Security, Secure Systems Engineering, VLSI Design, and High-Performance Computing.</description></item><item><title>Rajendran Dandapani</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/rajendran/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/rajendran/</guid><description>Rajendran Dandapani is a Director at Zoho Corporation and one of the company&amp;rsquo;s founding members, having been part of Zoho&amp;rsquo;s journey since 1997. Over the years, he has played a key role in conceiving, building, and scaling software products that serve millions of users worldwide. His experience spans product development, technology leadership, innovation, and organizational growth.
In addition to his role at Zoho, Rajendran serves as the President of Zoho Schools of Learning, Zoho&amp;rsquo;s pioneering initiative in alternative education.</description></item><item><title>S Periyakaruppan</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/s-periyakaruppan/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/s-periyakaruppan/</guid><description>S Periyakaruppan is an Enterprise Security Architect and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) with extensive leadership experience in designing resilient cyber defense architectures, enterprise cryptography, and risk governance frameworks.
He specializes in emerging security paradigms, including Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), cryptographic agility, zero trust architectures, and enterprise threat modeling. At DevCarnival, he leads the discourse on preparing enterprise infrastructure for the quantum computing era and achieving organizational Q-Day readiness.</description></item><item><title>Shaama M</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/shaama/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/shaama/</guid><description>I’m a passionate full-stack engineer who enjoys building scalable, high-performance applications and solving complex engineering problems. I work comfortably across backend services, modern web frontends, cloud-native systems, and DevOps workflows—taking ideas from concept to production and deployment.
My core experience lies in designing microservices, building performant APIs, crafting clean, responsive user interfaces, and deploying systems reliably using CI/CD, containers, and cloud platforms. I enjoy understanding systems end-to-end: how code behaves in production, how services communicate, how deployments are automated, and how architectural choices impact scale, reliability, and intelligence - especially when integrating AI-driven capabilities.</description></item><item><title>Venkatesh Jambulingam</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/venkatesh-jambulingam/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/venkatesh-jambulingam/</guid><description>Venkatesh Jambulingam is a Senior Manager in Cybersecurity &amp;amp; cloud security practice leader at EY Global Delivery Services with over 21 years of industry experience across enterprise cybersecurity, application security, cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP), and enterprise architecture.
He specializes in designing robust zero trust strategy and implementation, blockchain &amp;amp; digital asset security, DevSecOps pipelines, and modern multi-cloud architectures. He is also the founder of Cybervattam (சைபர் வட்டம்), a pioneering initiative dedicated to democratizing cybersecurity education in native Indian languages.</description></item><item><title>Yamuna Kannaian</title><link>http://devcarnival.com/people/yamuna-kannaian/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://devcarnival.com/people/yamuna-kannaian/</guid><description>Yamuna is an accomplished technology leader with extensive experience driving digital transformation, enterprise architecture and innovation at scale. With a strong record of delivering business value through emerging technologies, she specializes in leveraging AI, cloud computing, data platforms and modern engineering practices to build future-ready solutions that accelerate organizational growth and operational excellence.</description></item></channel></rss>