About the Author

Sankaran Prithviraj, in his current role as independent technology strategist, provides thought leadership, advises CxOs on technology selection and use as strategic tool for business, and innovates new solutions using emerging technologies such as cloud computing, mobile computing, analytics, and enterprise architecture. He provides novel, technical solutions for verticals such as banking, government, telecom and media. In an illustrious career spanning over thirty years in the IT industry, he has not only worked on all the technologies as they emerged but also climbed the corporate ladder by serving several companies both in India as well as in the USA catering to the needs of a worldwide clientele for IT-enabled business solutions. He established and headed Center of Excellence for several technologies and served in the Chief Technology Officer’s office besides conducting research in industrial R&D labs. He ventured his own company and hived off portions of the business after several years of running it successfully.

Based on his experience in delivering solutions, Prithviraj has published several papers on cloud computing and enterprise architecture, and enterprise mobile computing in international forums such as The Open Group Architecture Forum (TOGAF) and Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference. He is a regular among the conference speakers in his subject area and a member in noted panel discussions. He has also served as a member in the standing committee of world body for architecture, TOGAF. An alumnus of IISc Bangalore and IIT Madras where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering respectively, his education covers four branches of engineering – metallurgy, aeronautics, production technology and computer science. He can be reached at [email protected].