Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas

Current

• Technology Evangelist at Intuit

Past

• Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems
• Principal Software Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation
• Software Consultant at University of Louisiana at Lafayette

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Education

• University of Louisiana at Lafayette

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Industry

Computer Software

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas’s Summary

20+ years in software development
8+ years as a technology visionary and public speaker
10+ years in Java and C/C++ Programming
6+ years in mobility programming

Building, energizing and engaging developer communities towards adoption of new technologies

Experience in evangelizing new technology areas to developers and early adopters including areas such
as mobility and security.

Presented keynotes and technical topics like security
and mobility at numerous international conferences
including AjaxWorld, RSA, JavaPolis, JavaZone, JFokus, 3GSM

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas’s Specialties:

Public Speaking, Product Management, Developer relations, technical management, Java, Web 2.0, Ajax, Security, Mobility

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas’s Experience

• Technology Evangelist

  Intuit

  (Public Company; INTU; Computer Software industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  Architect and Evangelize small business software solutions providers towards the Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering and build an ecosystem of developers.

• Technology Evangelist

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1998 — January 2009 (11 years )

  As a Chief Technology Officer of the Technology Evangelism group, evangelized early versions of the technologies including very early versions of Java SE, Java EE (or J2EE), Java ME (or J2ME), Java and XML, web services, Java Security, JavaFX, etc. and responsible for developer evangelism of Java and related developers. Built a strong ecosystem of developers and delivered numerous presentations at conferences worldwide.

• Principal Software Engineer

  Digital Equipment Corporation

  (Public Company; DEC; Computer Hardware industry)

  1991 — 1998 (7 years )

  Multimedia Engineering for Alpha NT and Unix Workstations and TP WorkCenter for VAX/VMS

• Software Consultant

  University of Louisiana at Lafayette

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  January 1990 — May 1991 (1 year 5 months)

  Software consultancy within the University

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas’s Education

• University of Louisiana at Lafayette

  MS , Computer Science , 1990 — 1991

Additional Information

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas’s Groups:

•    Sun Alumni
•    Executive Suite
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    RSA Conference
•    Python Community
•    DEC Alumni
•    Web 2.0
•    Google Group
•    Salesforce.com
•    Identity Management Specialists Group
•    Technology Marketing Community
•    Database Experts
•    New England Tech Professionals Network
•    Mac Users
•    Interop - The Leading Business Technology Event
•    Game Developers
•    Mobilists (Innovators in mobile industry - 3900+ members)
•    Cloud Computing
•    Orange County Java Enterprise Development User Group
•    Intuit QuickBase Network
•    The Indus Entrepreneur
•    iPhone Developers - www.iPhoneintouch.com
•    FOSS Professionals
•    SaaSBlogs - Software as a Service Group
•    Android Developer Group (2,000+ and growing!)
•    JBoss Seam User Group
•    Adobe Flex
•    Identity Management Group
•    Google APPS users
•    NDC - Norwegian Developers Conference
•    Grafton Executive Search Recruiting and Career Network
•    JAVA Developer Network
•    CloudCamp - Unconventional Cloud Computing
•    Open ESB Community
•    Cloud Storage
•    MySQL Conference & Expo
•    W3C Members
•    REST Architects
•    Redhat JBOSS enterprise middleware users group
•    The Corporate Blogging Think Tank
•    Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)
•    Cloud Networking
•    Silicon Valley Web Java User Group
•    OOPSLA 2009
•    JavaOne Conference
•    Cloud Security Alliance
•    Cloud Jobs

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas’s Honors:

JavaOne 2008 Rock Star interview at:

http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/2008/articles/rockstar_ragssrinivas.jsp

JavaOne Wall of Fame at

http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/
rockstar_wall_of_fame.jsp

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