Dec 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 5 mos

• Connecting research and technology from the IIITH labs to industry and the innovation ecosystem. Facilitate beyond the IIIT incubator and the deep-tech accelerator. Exploring new models to productise research. Thru technology transfer outreach, custom commissioned innovation projects, co-innovation, connecting the extended innovation/startup ecosystem, domain COEs (resident vertical expertise to explore usecases for deeptech), research park and more. And assist innovation initiatives in governments, corporate innovation hubs and social innovation.

Aug 2002 – Dec 2016 · 14 yrs 4 mos

• A voluntary position, with full faculty privileges teaching courses in Middleware technologies' space since 2002. Apart from courses take on graded projects each semester in the distributed computing space thru student internships at Progress. Also associated with the students and student startups at the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at IIIT-H. Member of the institute's Academic Counicl, and also on the Governing board of the Incubator.

Jan 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Connect industry professionals with academia and research in the computer science realm. Getting appreciation for emerging technology and research areas and creating excitement around research

Mar 2008 – Dec 2016 · 8 yrs 9 mos

• At, Progress Software India, (returning back from Pramati to Head the Product engineering and the Center in the revamped structure) responsible for leading product development at the India Development center, organized in a Centers of Excellence model with each center owning a suite of products in that competency. Ramesh is responsible for providing strategic guidance to all the product teams, scale the product operations, with specific focus on cross-product considerations for the SOA and Data integration products.

Jan 2007 – Present · 19 yrs 4 mos

• A volunteer organization building an early-srtage startup eco-system. Part of the core team and drive the Hyderabad end of the events including monthly Startup saturdays and the annual HeadStart startups' showcase. Also work with ITsAP and HydStartups to organize technology startup tech and networking events. Thru these activities, now also part of Hyderabad Angels.

Apr 2006 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Driving the Middleware Products and Middleware Technology services business.

Apr 2005 – Apr 2006 · 1 yr

• Technical Director, Progress Software (India Dev Center) & Head- Sonic ESB Tools group, Hyderabad, India
• Setup the initial offshore product team for Sonic Software (Progress Software's group company). Manage the Sonic ESB product development, evangelise on SOA & ESB, provide technical leadership for all Progress Software offshore teams in Hyderabad.

May 2000 – Mar 2005 · 4 yrs 10 mos

• Responsible for managing the Product Engineering of Pramati's J2EE infrastructure products. This includes managing the product lines, product releases, product architecture, systems and processes, technology fora interactions and standards/specifications and motivating the high-calibre engineering team.

May 2000 – Jun 2002 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Oct 1996 – May 2000 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Principal Engineer in the Performance Engineering group of Informix R&D. A pivotal group that worked on cross-functional performance engineering and tier-1 partner requirements from the DBMS. Working on scoping of requirements, architecture and high level design and prototyping. Extensive interaction with partners and all groups of Informix R&D. Specifically worked on SQL Optimizations, Communciation layer, Embedded-JVM and scoping the J2EE Server inside DBMS.

Jun 1994 – Oct 1996 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Multi-tier Systems and frameworks using OEC-Entera and proprietary middleware framework.

Aug 1991 – Feb 1994 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Worked on a DBMS Development project jointly taken up with Acto- Norway. Dsigned and developed several modules in the second prototype implementation of the DBMS.

Feb 1990 – Aug 1991 · 1 yr 6 mos · Coonoor, India