Festival Speakers

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&D organizations. Her research interests encompass Blockchain, Malware Analysis, IoT, IPv6 co-existence in Next Generation Networks, AI for Cybersecurity, and more.

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. He actively shares practical insights through his blog (https://sivalabs.in) and YouTube channel (https://youtube.com/sivalabs).

Siva is the author of Beginning Spring Boot (Apress), PrimeFaces Beginners Guide (PacktPub), and Java Persistence with MyBatis 3. He has spoken at international and local conferences, sharing insights on cloud-native architectures, modern Java development, and developer productivity.

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.

Arun Prakash M is the Founder & 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’s Academia initiative, Arun helps drive industry-relevant pedagogy, collaborative coding programs, and developer empowerment for academia across India.

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. She actively contributes to technology communities through mentoring, innovation programs, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

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.

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.

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.

Micheal Joshuva is the Founder & 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.

He is passionate about building secure AI ecosystems and fostering collaboration between industry leaders, researchers, and students. Through the AI-SEC Community, he organizes conferences, monthly meetups, hackathons, and technical workshops that bring together cybersecurity professionals, AI practitioners, and enterprise decision-makers. Micheal actively advises organizations on AI security, application security, VAPT, and security compliance while championing open-source initiatives and community-driven innovation. His mission is to bridge the gap between AI innovation and cybersecurity, helping organizations adopt emerging technologies securely while nurturing the next generation of cybersecurity talent.

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.

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. I also use Clojure, C#, and Python depending on the problem.

I contributed to the Spring AI ecosystem and I’m the author of “Spring AI for Your Organization”, a practical guide to building AI-enabled applications using the Spring framework.

Outside of day-to-day work, I spend a lot of time building tools, experimenting with new systems, and exploring areas like AI tooling, developer platforms, distributed systems, and automation.

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.

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.

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’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.

Senior Engineering Leader with 25 plus years experience of leading complex enterprise software development, across the full life cycle, in Enterprise Content Management, Language Runtimes and Open Source.

Results driven, people oriented leader for over 14 years, with demonstrated ability to build new teams from ground up as well as to manage top caliber senior engineers, architects and senior managers, with large distributed teams across the globe (India, UK, US, China, Canada, Japan) as a 3rd line manager.

Certified Scrum Master with successful track record of leading and coaching teams in Agile Development and through transition from traditional Waterfall Development.

Hands-on engineer with proven problem solving ability and deep skills in a wide spectrum of technologies (Web 2.0, RESTful Web Services, J2EE, C++).

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.

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.

Currently, I contribute to commercial products within the Tanzu portfolio at Broadcom, focusing on building scalable, distributed enterprise systems. I also work on OpenRewrite migration recipes that help teams modernize their applications and upgrade Spring Boot projects to newer versions more smoothly.

Venkatesh Jambulingam is a Senior Manager in Cybersecurity & 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 & 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.

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.