Speaker Details

Ramani Routray is a senior researcher and manager of Cloud Systems Analytics group at IBM Research with over 17 years of technical experience. In his role, Ramani continues to invent, design and transform next generation data center solutions ranging from cutting-edge underpinning cloud technology, such as Software Defined Storage, Container, IBM Cloud Managed Services (CMS) API economy, Hybrid Cloud Design, to innovative cloud management platforms using advanced big data analytics technologies, such as Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL, and scalable machine learning platforms. The essence of these solutions lies in the unique integration of data science with domain-specific applications on large scale cloud system analytics paradigm.

Ramani has made significant impact by architecting and implementing key components of the IBM Spectrum Control, IBM Cloud platform (CMS) and IBM Services Delivery framework. He leads technical teams, works with architects, strategists across brand (Systems, Software and Services) within IBM and with Strategic Outsourcing clients. Ramani has been awarded one IBM Corporate Award, CEO's Best-of-IBM Award, five Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards , two Research Division Awards, multiple publication awards. He has published over 30 papers in key conferences, IBM Master Inventor - submitted 64 patent applications out of which 28 have been granted by USPTO. Ramani collaborates with universities, standards (DMTF/SNIA/..), OpenStack and works on IBM task forces.