Satyaakam Goswami

Current

• Consultant at OLPC
• Consultant at NIPFP
• Associate at NRCFOSS

• FOSS Consultant at satyaakam.net

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Past

• Member of Consulting Staff at Cadence Design System
• Project Manager at Redhat
• Senior Research Engineer at International Institute of Information Technology

• CTO at Archean Infotech

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Satyaakam Goswami’s Summary

Played different roles in IT for last 15 years with diverse and enriching experiences in R&D, Project Management, People management, Business Development & System administration.

My profile in these years also covers international assignments in managing cross-functional and cross-geographical assignments.

Presently working as a Foss Consultant before this , i worked with Cadence Design Systems, Inc. as member of Consulting Staff, managing the Linux Development Environment , Prior to joining Cadence I worked with Red Hat as Project Manager where in I managed Solutions to Govt Organizations in Open Source Solutions .

Satyaakam Goswami’s Specialties:

FOSS ( Free and Open Source Software) in Infrastructure and Business Applications.

Satyaakam Goswami’s Experience

• Consultant

  OLPC

  (Privately Held; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

• Consultant

  NIPFP

  (Financial Services industry)

  July 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Linux development Environment, OSS infrastructure Strategy for mayin.org

• Associate

  NRCFOSS

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 2009 — Present (5 months)

• FOSS Consultant

  satyaakam.net

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 2009 — Present (10 months)

  Foss ( Free and Open Source Software ) ecosystem has many different meanings to everyone Govt , Companies ,People,Students . One thing is clear they want to move towards it but have Bootstrapping issues or stuck somewhere in an assignment , my Job involves coming with Strategies and Solutions for FOSS adoption and Delivery of Services or Products .

• Member of Consulting Staff

  Cadence Design System

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 2005 — February 2009 (3 years 6 months)

  Worked for the group Platform Services who are responsible for the Platform matrix of Cadence Products.
  Manage the Production of Linux Image for Developers.
  HW/OS Environment Services to Cadence community.
  Cross functional Technology evaluation of GCC 4.1.1 ( Compiler) Adoption across Cadence.
  Evaluation of Xen as a Virtualization Technology for the Enterprise.
  Technology Evaluation of debuggers.
  Rolled out a Helpdesk system using RT (http://bestpractical.com/rt/)
  Proof of concept for Network Managemt using Nagios later this Solution was accepted (http://www.nagios.org).
  Test plan for Automated test Management system of Cadence Operating System.
  Interacting with Vendors like Redhat (redhat.com ) and Novell (Novell.com) .
  Technical paper on reducing costs through Xen as Virtualization Technology.

• Project Manager

  Redhat

  (Public Company; RHT; Computer Software industry)

  December 2004 — September 2005 (10 months)

  Consult Govt organization in there implementation of Open Source Software solutions.
  Consulted Supreme Court to get them onto LAMP Stack ( Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP).
  Suggesting strategy for National Open Source Innovation center.
  Developing framework for evaluation of Biometric devices.
  Developing generic pam module for authenticating with finger print reader.

• Senior Research Engineer

  International Institute of Information Technology

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 2002 — September 2003 (1 year 1 month)

  Being a mentor to the students in the free and open software project.
  Initiate, guide, promote and manage student development groups in development of Open Software.
  Identify new software install, run, test and prepare evaluation reports and promote the use of these Free/Open Software in the Campus.
  Embedded Linux and Real-time Linux research for the upcoming projects on pervasive computing.
  Consulting various private and govt organizations for their Open Source Strategy.

• CTO

  Archean Infotech

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 1999 — September 2002 (2 years 10 months)

  Providing end to end solutions using free and open source software's.
  Developing course material for the courses offered.
  Evangelizing GNU/Linux.

Additional Information

Satyaakam Goswami’s Interests:

Lawn Tennis

Satyaakam Goswami’s Groups:

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