Srivathsa NS is a Senior Engineering Director in the Solution Innovation group, reporting to the CTO. He is globally responsible for Intellectual Property including Patents from Technology and Business perspective. Earlier, he was responsible for providing engineering leadership to development of products related to Network Security, Cloud and Biometrics. He has been the development leader in India for the award winning Stealth product suite. He has more than 25 years of development experience in Operating Systems, High Performance Computing, Open Source, Systems Management, Servers, Storage and Security with several leading product companies. He also leads the Unisys India level initiative called Grey Cells. Prior to joining Unisys, Srivathsa led engineering teams responsible for Dell’s Systems Management as well as Enterprise Linux on Dell Servers. He was also part of HPC groups in Dell and Sun Microsystems. He started his career at Indian Institute of Science, in their Supercomputer Research Centre.
Srivathsa has a Masters Degree in Computer Applications and a MS in Software Systems. He did a Senior Management Program from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC). He actively participates in the technology community, through keynote talks, panel discussions and as a guest speaker. He has been one of the advisors for the conference – Open Source India, formerly known as Linux Asia for many years. He is also a member of the NASSCOM Innovation Track, which is a NASSCOM GCC initiative.