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Panel Profiles:
Sudhir Patnaik
Vice President, Engineering and Site Leader
Gibraltar India Development Center
Sudhir has 25+ years of experience in software engineering and since march 2019, working as VP Engineering and Site Lead at Gibraltar India Development Centre(A Prudential Financial Insurance Inc. USA Company). Prior to Gibraltar India, he was the VP of Platform Engineering and Operations and Head – IDC Site Strategy and Operations, at Intuit India Product Development Centre, for 12+ years. Sudhir held engineering leadership roles at Accelrys Inc. – Bangalore R&D Centre of Excellence (now Dassault) and Misys Healthcare India Development Centre. He holds Master degree in Electronics and Communication from NIT, Rourkela and active in academia partnerships. Sudhir is a member of Industry Advisory Board at IIIT, Bangalore and member of the Board of Studies for Computer Science at VIT, Andhra Pradesh. He is also member of IEEE, CSI, ACM and ISTE and fellow at Institution of Engineers (India). Sudhir was the past president of STeP-IN from 2012-14 and has presented in conferences such as QAI, SEI and STeP-IN and has published articles on software testing in CIOL, Stickyminds etc. He is actively involved in many technology and leadership forums in India. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Computer Science (Machine Learning) from M.S.Ramaiah University of Applied Science, Bangalore since April,2018.
Brijesh Deb
Senior Test Consultant - High Tech
Sogeti, Netherlands
Brijesh Deb has over 2 decades years of experience of leading, managing and coaching teams on Software Testing and embracing the Agile mindset. He is a Bachelor of Engineering – Electronics and Communication and a Master of Business Administration in Operations.
Being a hands on software tester has also helped him stay close to technology and understand the intricacies. He has been involved in testing of applications from lightweight mobile apps to the large scale industrial IoT solutions. He works with some of the top most high tech companies providing everyday solutions in the Automotive, Avionics, Semiconductor, Space, Agriculture and Energy sectors to name a few.
Brijesh is an Agile Transformation Agent with the objective of helping organizations in achieving customer excellence with a focus on delivering maximum value to customers, stakeholders and teams. Emphasis on cultural change driven by collaboration at all levels to adapt the agile mindset and change.
He lives in the Netherlands with his wife and 2 years old son. In his free time, he loves singing rhymes with his son. He’s a wordsmith and loves to write on social media especially LinkedIn. He has a passion for anthropology and loves to study human behavior and aspires to be a TV show host.
Smitha Mave
Director, Engineering
Athenahealth
Smitha Mave is currently Director, Engineering with athenahealth, Bangalore building next generation cloud-based healthcare systems. As an engineering leader, balancing delivery excellence with technical craftsmanship has been her focus area.
She has over 19 years of industry experience in software development and management in various companies ranging from startups to medium and large sized companies – Tivo, EMC, RSA, McAfee to name a few. She has been part of product development teams as a developer and engineering leader in multiple domains including Security, Storage, Virtualization, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Platform, API and Application Development for Entertainment and Media and Healthcare.
Smitha is passionate about building high performance teams and driving innovation. She has multiple patent disclosures, publications and granted patents. She is a keen learner, interested in technology and people development.
Smitha has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and an executive MBA from IIMB. She is a regular speaker in technical forums. She has also been part of the leadership team of Grace Hopper Conference, the largest technology conference for women.