Blogger Profiles


Amol Gupta

Lead Consultant, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Limited

Amol has seven years of experience in the IT industry. He specializes in Package Application, consulting and implementing across multiple domains and geographies. Amol is currently focusing on project consulting in the MS Dynamics space and supports pre-sales and sales activities. He is also involved in parallel initiatives of collaborative knowledge management, effective estimation tools for package implementations, and evangelizing new Microsoft Dynamics-based solutions.

Amol has played a key role in incubating and establishing the MS Dynamics practice. He is closely associated with the development of new solution offerings as well as engagement models.

He will blog on the Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem, new pricing and estimation models, implementation methodologies and frameworks, and collaboration tools and trends in the package applications space.


Atul Gupta

Principal Architect, Infosys Limited

Atul is a Principal Architect with Infosys Labs, and has over 16 years of Industry experience. He has been a recipient of the Microsoft’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) award for many years. Atul’s expertise spans User Interface technologies and Immersive User Experiences.

Having worked with Microsoft technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight, he now focuses on touch, gesture and augmented reality experiences. In addition, Atul also has proficiency on products such as Microsoft Kinect, Microsoft Surface, Phone 7, etc.

He has authored papers for industry publications and websites, and some of which are available on Infosys’ Technology Showcase. Atul has also co-authored a book titled - ASP.NET 4 Social Networking.

Atul will blog on Microsoft Kinect, Microsoft Surface and Phone 7.


Azhar Amir

Senior Technology Architect, Infosys Limited

Azhar has over 12 years of experience in IT Industry. He is involved in several projects with leading IT services companies, and assists them with architecture, design and implementation. He has presented papers in various internal and external forums. Azhar has architected multiple Intranet and Internet portals. He is an active participant in Microsoft Technology forums.

Azhar will blog on Microsoft Technologies - SharePoint 2010, MOSS, .NET, Cloud Computing, Business Intelligence (BI), Search, Frameworks, and Design Patterns.


David Levihn

Microsoft Solutions and Alliance Manager, Infosys Limited

David is responsible for the Southern half of U.S. and Latin America, focusing on G1000 accounts. He also aligns to the retail, energy, utilities, and services business units within Infosys.


Dhananjay Kumar

Senior System Engineer, Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Limited

Dhananjay is a Senior System Engineer, at the Infosys Microsoft Technology Center. He has over three years of experience on various Microsoft Technologies such as Framework 4.0, Windows Phone 7 Development, WCF, Azure, REST, O Data, Silverlight, etc.

For his active contribution in professional Microsoft online communities and developer forums, Dhananjay has been Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional since 2010.

Dhananjay will blog on Microsoft Technologies, Cloud Computing and Phone Development.


Dayanand Gaikwad

Lead Consultant, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Limited

Dayanand has over nine years of IT experience. He currently works as a consultant specializing in process analysis, design and ERP implementation.

He has worked on Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Microsoft Dynamics ERP packages for over seven years, also playing diverse consulting roles across varied projects. He has front-ended with clients in the capacity of a process analyst and solution provider. He has also been part of various life-cycle stages of project acquisition and execution.

Dayanand will blog on process analysis and design, with focus on their alignment to systems.


Deborah O’Keefe

Regional Microsoft Alliance Manager, Infosys Limited

Deborah is responsible for four Microsoft Districts: Heartland, Midwest, North Central and Northwest.


Divya Sharma

Technology Analyst, Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Limited

Divya has more than three years of IT experience. She has worked on various Microsoft Technologies like ASP.net, Windows applications, Web services and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). She has developed solutions in legacy modernization, SOA and in cloud computing. She has been in key resource person in Legacy Integration Framework enhancement and was involved in cloud computing-based case study (AReIS) development for Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) 2008.

Divya will blog on cloud computing and Microsoft Technologies


Dinesh Mohan

Industry Principal, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Limited

Dinesh has over 15 years of industry experience. He specializes in designing and deploying business applications including ERP, CRM and HIS. He is currently working on new models for rapid implementation of business applications through pre-configured end-to-end business processes on horizontal ERP and CRM frameworks. Dinesh is responsible for creating micro-vertical business solutions on the Microsoft Dynamics platform.

He has worked with manufacturing, e-commerce, utilities, hi-tech, healthcare, banking, and financial services companies.

Dinesh will blog on Microsoft Dynamics, ERP, CRM, Hub and Spoke, Global Roll-outs.


Heeren Pandya

Technology Lead, Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Limited

Heeren has over seven years of IT experience and has worked on various Microsoft technologies including SharePoint 2010, MOSS, ASP.NET, WCF, and Web Technologies. He has designed and developed solutions in SharePoint, Web, Migration, and Collaboration. Heeren has been a key resource in design and development of modules in Infosys Collaboration Product.

Heeren will blog on Microsoft Technologies and Collaboration.


Hemanand Masilamani

Senior Technical Architect - Systems Integration (SI), Infosys Limited

Hemanand creates and executes end-user productivity solutions for leading organizations. He has executed strategic engagements for companies in technology optimization, platform modernization, collaboration and end-user computing solutions.

Hemanand has more than 12 years of IT experience. He drives the strategy and solutions for technology optimization, end-user computing and collaboration.


Jitendra Pal Thethi

Principal Architect – Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Limited

Jitendra is a Principal Architect with the Microsoft Technology Center based in Bellevue. He handles the presales activities on the Infosys-Microsoft joint IT transformational program Catalytic IT. He is also leading the efforts on Cloud Computing and defining solutions and services which provide business value and a competitive edge to our customer by adopting this platform.


Kashyap Chimanlal Santoki

System Engineer, SETLabs, Infosys Limited

Kashyap has worked on performance testing, capacity planning projects and has developed an internal tool. In addition, he has worked in setting up an open-source private cloud. He has more than two years of IT experience. Currently, he is a member of the J2EE Center for Excellence (CoE) team.

Kashyap will blog on cloud computing.


Kiran Kumar Ballari

SharePoint Architect, System Integration - MOSS, Infosys Limited

Kiran has over eight years of experience in the IT industry. He has extensive experience in Application Architecture, Reengineering and implementation of Collaborative Environment. He has handled large projects in the fields of Enterprise Application Transformation, Design and Implementation of Collaboration and Unified Communication Technologies, Messaging and Application Architecture Design, Product Development, Messaging and Application Migration, Performance Tuning, and Capacity Planning.

Kiran has managed platform implementation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) Server 2007 for a leading product safety compliance firm in the U.S. He has architected a MOSS Migration Framework, integrating application factory-based approach, at lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Kiran has developed processes, methodologies and approaches for transforming on premise environments such as Exchange, MOSS 2007 to MS Cloud offering BPOS, and designed accelerators to integrate MOSS with IPX/ PBX Telephony, OCS 2007, and Exchange 2007 to provide Unified Communication and Collaboration for information workers.

He is currently handling a project that involves design, implementation and migration to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, for a mining group in Australia.

Kiran will blog on Cloud Computing, Microsoft Technologies, SharePoint Technologies, Application and Mail Migrations, Lotus Notes Transformation, and Unified Communication and Collaboration.


Manoj Jajoo

Senior Technical Architect, Enterprise Solutions - Microsoft Dynamics, Infosys Limited

Manoj has 13 years of IT experience across Web development, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), portal and Business Intelligence (BI). He is a certified The Open Group Architecture Framework-(TOGAF) 8 practitioner. He has extensive experience in the creation of frameworks, solutions and add-ons in Microsoft Technology. Currently, he heads the offshore team involved in the global rollout (25 countries) of Microsoft Dynamics CRM for a manufacturing company.

Manoj is a technical consultant in architecture and building solutions for other projects. He is working on initiatives of technology collaboration, competency development on Microsoft Dynamics products and technologies, and evangelizing new Microsoft Dynamics’ products (Microsoft Dynamics AX, NAV, GP and CRM) adoption.

He will blog on Enterprise Architecture, Web security, Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem, Web 2.0, cloud computing and BI.


Mani Tripathi

Technology Architect, Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Labs, Infosys Limited

Mani has 11 years of experience in the IT industry. She has worked for Microsoft Technology projects across multiple business domains. Her skills are in architecture definition, design, development and testing.

Currently as a Technology Architect with Immersive Technologies Labs, she focuses on Microsoft Technologies such as Windows 8, Phone 7, WPF, Silverlight, etc.

Mani will blog on Immersive Technologies.


Nagaraj Desai

Product Technical Architect, Product Incubation and Engineering, Infosys Limited

Nagaraj Desai has 11 years of experience in the IT industry. He has architected and built a product – ActiveDesk – and anchored a Center of Excellence (COE) on contact center desktop technologies. Nagaraj has specialization in architecting, designing and developing systems on various Microsoft technologies and products, including SharePoint 2010, Customer Care Framework, and .NET 3.5. Currently, he is leading a product team, focused on leveraging social media for customer service.

Nagaraj will blog on SharePoint technologies, social media and customer service.


Nageswar Cherukupalli

Platform Solutions Consultant, Infosys Limited

Nageswar creates and executes end-user productivity solutions for leading organizations. He has executed several strategic engagements for companies in technology optimization, platform modernization, collaboration and end-user computing solutions.

Nageswar has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry and is a senior engagement manager of Systems Integration. He helps drive the strategy and go-to-market activities for technology optimization, end-user computing and collaboration solutions.


Nidhi Tiwari

Senior Technical Architect, SETLabs, Infosys Limited

Nidhi works in the field of Performance Engineering and focuses on performance modeling. Her research interest topics include adoption of cloud computing and cloud databases. She has authored papers for international conferences and has filed for a patent.

Nidhi will blog on cloud computing.


Pankaj Kant

Lead Consultant, Microsoft, Infosys Limited

Pankaj has over 11 years of IT experience. He is an MS Dynamics AX Techno functional consultant with specialization in business process management and re-engineering, application integrations and deployments involving MS Dynamics AX framework, and security and compliance management.

Pankaj has successfully delivered end-to-end ERP implementations, upgrades and integration projects for well-known global majors in Retail, Heavy Equipment Dealership, Automobiles Component Manufacturing, Life sciences, and Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) segments.

He will blog on MS Dynamics, emerging trends in industries, Axapta connectivity and performance optimization/ agile methodology of ERP, security compliance, Microsoft Dynamics AX AIF framework and tools for integration/ collaboration, business intelligence, and new business features of AX2009.


Phaneendra Babu Subnivis

Technology Architect, Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Limited

Phaneendra has over 11 years of IT experience. He specializes in data model design/ review, ETL architecture design, performance and tuning applications, and SQL Azure. His current focus areas include handling large databases on SQL Server, SQL Azure, and SQL Server 2008 R2.

He has been involved in various data model review/ performance tuning assessments and has authored an article on performance and tuning.

Phaneendra will blog on SQL Server, VLDB, SQL Azure, MSBI, and MS-Parallel Data Warehouse.


Raghavendra Ramdas

Lead Consultant, Microsoft, Infosys Limited

Raghavendra Ramdas has over nine years of experience in the IT industry. He specializes in enterprise consulting and implementation. He has successfully managed global Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management (CRM) implementations, including two of Infosys’ largest MSCRM programs.

Raghavendra will blog on CRM in banking and manufacturing industries, Microsoft Dynamics solution design and implementation of best practices, and trends in Social CRM.


Rahul Bandopadhyaya

Technology Lead, Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Limited

Rahul primarily works with Azure, Microsoft’s cloud offering. His responsibilities include creating different tools, frameworks and services to address issues in cloud computing. In addition, he seeks to enhance and speed up cloud-based implementation and migration.


Rajesh Gupta

Microsoft Practice, Infosys Limited

Rajesh in his current role is responsible for managing Microsoft Practice across the globe. Prior to this, Rajesh managed Systems Integration business for retail, manufacturing, energy, utilities & services business units at Infosys besides being Global Head of Marketing & Alliances for his unit. He drives strategic client and partner relationships worldwide.

Rajesh has more than 20 years of experience in business development, strategy formulation, planning, program & vendor management and IT operations. He is an active member of partner advisory boards of product alliance partners and steering committees with strategic clients.


Rushikesh Ubgade

Global Practice Lead, SharePoint, Infosys Limited

Rushikesh has 14 years of IT experience and has architected many Intranet and Internet portals on Content Management products and technologies.

He will blog on Microsoft Technologies - SharePoint 2010, MOSS, .NET, Cloud Computing, Business Intelligence (BI), Search, Frameworks, and Design Patterns.


Sachin Bery

Principal Consultant, EAIS-MBS, EAIS, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Limited

Sachin has 10 years of total experience with close to 8 years in the IT industry. He has diverse experience spanning core engineering consulting, product marketing and package-enabled IT services across product lines such as Oracle, PeopleSoft and Microsoft Dynamics. In the IT space, Sachin has executed delivery, sales and marketing roles and has been instrumental in incubating Microsoft Dynamics Practice at Infosys.

Sachin is currently working on project consulting, pre-sales, sales support, vertical strategy formulation, and new market offerings. He is also involved in initiatives surrounding knowledge management, effective estimation tools for package implementations, competency development and evangelizing Microsoft Dynamics Products/ Technologies and product adoption.

He will blog on enterprise architecture, non-linear pricing models, Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem, supply chain management, mid-markets, and new model/ service offerings in the package applications space.


Sachin Prakash Sancheti

Technology Architect, Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Limited

Sachin has more than 10 years of IT experience. He has worked on a wide range of Microsoft products such as MOSS, Exchange Server and ISA. He has architected and executed two major MOSS-based projects related to Internet collaboration and Web content management. He has also executed large-scale projects on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

Sachin will blog on cloud computing.


Sagar Saboo

Project Manager, Systems Integration, Infosys Limited

Sagar is a Project Manager with over 10 years of IT experience.

He managed the portal of a large bank, based in the Middle East, taking care of Web Content Management (WCM) and e-banking.

Sagar will blog on Microsoft Technologies – Search, .NET and MOSS 2007.


Saju Sankarankutty

Head - Microsoft Cloud Computing Practice, Infosys Limited

Saju is a principal technical architect with the systems integration group. He manages the Microsoft cloud computing (Azure and BPOS) and Windows 7 portfolio for the Microsoft practice. He drives strategic partner relationships with Microsoft for core infrastructure and leads efforts on cloud computing. He also defines solutions and services that provide business value and a competitive edge.

Saju has more than 13 years of consulting experience. He has executed several strategic engagements in technology optimization, platform modernization, collaboration and end-user computing.


Samir Rajput

Application Architect, Systems Integration, Infosys Limited

Samir is an Application Architect with 10 years of IT experience. He has been assisting leading IT Service companies in architecture, design and implementation.

He has architected Enterprise Content Management (ECM) using SharePoint MOSS 2007 for some well-known U.S. firms.

Samir will blog on Microsoft Technologies such as MOSS, .NET, Cloud Computing, Business Intelligence (BI), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Real Time TCP/ IP Socket Application, Search, Frameworks, and Design Patterns.


Shashi Bhattaram

Senior Technical Architect, Infosys Limited

Shashi has over 11 years of experience, architecting enterprise solutions in portals, content management and collaboration space. He has led SharePoint Intranet Engagement for two large organizations with an employee base of more than 250,000 people.

Shashi will blog on Enterprise Search, SharePoint, Social Networking, and Mobile Applications.


Sidharth Ghag

Senior Technical Architect, Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Limited

With over eight years of industry experience, Sidharth currently leads solutions in Microsoft Technologies in the area of Cloud Computing, SOA and service-enabling mainframe systems. He has been instrumental in helping Infosys clients with the service orientation of their legacy mainframe systems. He has also authored a paper on service-enabling mainframe systems.


Suchi Paharia

Technology Lead, Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Limited

Suchi has more than five years of IT experience. She has worked on various Microsoft technologies like ASP.net, Windows applications, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). She has developed solutions in ASP.net, SOA and thin clients. She has been a key resource person in .Net Framework 4.0 team and is involved in developing applications using Visual Studio (VS) 2010.

Suchi has worked in designing .net project in VS2005. She has completed a Proof-of-Concept in VS 2010 implementing the new features of .Net 4.0. She will blog on .Net 4.0.


Sudhanshu Hate

Senior Architect, Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Limited

With 11 years of experience, Sudhanshu is currently focusing on Windows Communication and Workflow Foundation technologies from the .Net 3.5 and 4.0 stack. Previously, Sudhanshu has led solution architecture and development teams on Legacy Modernization and Business Intelligence and was also instrumental in taking Infosys’ Catalytic IT solutions to customers in EMEA.


K. Suyog Hebbar

Technology Architect, Infosys Limited

Suyog is involved in architecting and implementing Platforms and Frameworks for Content Management, Intranet, and Internet portals. He has 12 years of IT experience, and has lead many award winning Intranet and Internet portals.

His blog will be on Microsoft Technologies - SharePoint, Business Intelligence (BI), Search, Frameworks, and Design Patterns.


Vikas Dewangan

Senior Technical Manager, Microsoft Technology Center – Infosys Labs, Infosys Limited

Vikas has over 13 + years of experience in the IT industry. He specializes in conceptualizing new IT solutions, analyzing technology trends and defining new product strategies. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Vikas has filed several patents and has published a paper in IEEE. His current focus area is Immersive Technologies and in particular augmented reality and natural user interfaces.


Virendra Vyas

SharePoint Architect, Infosys Limited

Virendra has 10 years of experience in Legacy Modernization, SOA and Cloud Computing. He has recently designed a Business Collaboration Workspace solution using SharePoint 2007 and IBM Security Management Suite for a major U.S. oil company. His has expertise in consultancy and building IT solutions to overcome business challenges.

Virendra will blog on Cloud Computing, Microsoft Technologies and SharePoint Technologies.


Virendra Wadekar

Senior Technology Architect, Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Limited

With over 11 years of experience, Virendra has worked on various projects ranging from SQL server 2000 to SQL 2008 as Database Technologies. Microsoft Business Intelligence (MSBI) platform is his area of specialization. Virendra has architected and executed BI projects using Microsoft Technologies. He has also worked on various projects for data modeling and performance tuning.

Virendra will blog on MSBI, VLDB, MS-Parallel Data Warehouse, Master Data Management, and SQL Server.


Vivek Hari

Consultant, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Limited

Vivek is the operations anchor of Microsoft Dynamics. He is responsible for business continuity, planning and assurance, and resource management. He has more than nine years of experience. He has extensive experience across consulting, project management and operations. Currently, he is anchoring the operations function for Microsoft Dynamics providing operational support to more than 15 projects globally.

Vivek has a keen interest in business-enabling functions. He will blog on human resource-related viewpoints and operations-related perspectives.


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