Key Moments
May 2022: Change Transformation -- Initiaitive Owner for Bureaucracy Busters 2022 at VMware -- Setting a new norm of how WE work. Seeded idea of Bureaucracy Buster (BB) for all-VMware with CEO Raghu.
Lead cross-company-wide rollout of the program, cutting red tape and busting Top BB items while partnering with six Business Groups (15K+ employees) and the office of CEO, and Chief Strategy Officer Paul F.
Surfaced over 163 BB Items, while focussing on busting the Top 20, set an example of how we can work together cross-functionally to build better solutions.
It was truly a defining moment for me at VMware working with fantastic people (~10% of org) in VMware who stepped up to solve challenging problems and transform the company - imagine this: no mandate, just a shared goal to make things more efficient, reduce friction, and cut red tape and in just 19 working days!
March 2020: Chest X-Ray Checker for Covid Pneumonia: Chest radiography (Chest X-Ray) is typically the first-line imaging modality used for patients with suspected COVID-19. We, at Medtatva, have built an easy to use tool which can run on any smart phone to detect COVID pneumonias instantly. See video (below) for a 2 minute introduction to the nature of problem, and how medtatva is helping the community to fight COVID19 using AI. The AI model has been trained by expert doctors using >100,000 images and has > 85% accuracy. Just take a photo of the Chest X-Ray from the reading/viewing board with your smartphone, and get instant results.
Feb - March 2020: Launched COVID19 Symptom Checker. See https://lnkd.in/fMNWfQT Our contribution to humanity to help with screening of COVID19 symptoms -- from medtatva team, building tools for early detection of diseases. We use guidelines from the CDC & WHO.
Sept 2019 - Feb 2020: Founded Medtatva -- startup focussed on tools to detect diseases early. Launched Web App to detect osteoporosis instantly for healthcare providers using simple spine X-rays. Get detected for Osteoporosis early with Medtatva AI-based tools..
June 2018. Founder of bubblenet®, a start-up focussed on making phone consultations billable using digital Rx.
Launched on Aug 19'2017, https://leep2successorg.wordpress.com/ This was my second website dev project since I left Google in Nov 2016 -- hands-on w.r.t responsive website development. . I couldn't have done this without the help and partnership of Ramkumar Sangameshwar. We threw ourselves into the deep end, looked at very many frameworks, and finally selected something that was going to be easy to use to solve the problem -- to capture the essence of LEEP book - a life transforming programme for young minds. It was a fun ride.
Aug 19 2017: Conducted workshop for high school students @ international school on negative impacts of internet and social media.
2016: Removing spinning disk from all Google data centers: The diskless project (>½ Billion$) involved managing the conversion of ALL of the cells from non-diskless to diskless fleetwide --- an extremely complex project involving and impacting teams all across Google. The project was running late on its critical milestone to rollout diskless to a production cluster. I was instrumental in getting the project back on track from a death-spiral mode.
Image Source: Google network of regions
Feb 2017: Launched chinmayaeducationcell.org : Steered org towards cloud-based administration to simplify many offline process and increase productivity, and learning management solutions for 6000+ teachers.
2014: At Google Developer Days: The Unending Quest to become better - Never settle for the best: I delivered this presentation at Bangalore, India. Focus was on engineering at Google, the mindset we use to approach development, and why learning organisations are key. I discussed 5 key learnings to help developers accelerate productivity and avoid "stagnation".
2012: I was 1 of 14 Googlers selected worldwide to participate in the 2012 GoogleReach leadership immersion pgm in India. During the program, a video I created using my nexus phone while understanding microfinacing industry: the difference small loans can make to eradicate poverty.
2002: Launched the middleware architecture series -- an online event spanning 10 weeks to help IT architects and developers get the most out of their application servers. (Winner of the Marketing, Alliances & Channels Innovation Award FY2003 – most successful Oracle campaign in the world - captivated over 3000+ Architects, repeat visitors of 43.4%, and 98.1% were first time visitors).
1995-2000: Founded non-profit Mountain View / Silicon Valley Java Users Group. I served as its president for 5 years. In its days it was the premier Java User Group in USA with a membership of 1000+. We met every 4th Wednesday of the month -- it was "the" place for Java developers to share and learn, an incubation of sorts. MTVJUG attracted top talent to speak at its JUG.
1996: I always wanted to write for Dr.Dobbs. My article on Server-Side Javascript got published. It was a "yes" moment for me as the web was branching out from static to dynamic page and database backed websites.
1995: Launched the first Web-based Software Environment into public domain. Developed system that made metrics collection an implicit part of software process, and analysis dynamically. The tool tracks issues in software development process, provides informal communication between users, roles, todo lists. The goal is improvement through measurement.
I presented my findings “Software Project Management and Measurement on the World-Wide-Web (WWW),” IEEE Fifth Workshop on Enabling Technologies, Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE’96) at Stanford University. The tool won praise from NASA (Used as a prototype for NASA’s issue tracking and management process on the Earth Observing System Data & Information System & Space Station projects). Over 20+ alpha customers including CERN, Lawrence Livermoore Lab, CNet etc. Released to public domain.