Indirajith ("Indira") Thangasamy was born in Melanedumbur, a remote place in the southern part of India, and now resides in the San Francisco bay area with his wife Ramya and kids, Kavin and Iniya. After graduating with a Master of Technology in computer science, Indira started as an embedded systems developer at Robert Bosch GmbH in the Schengen area in India. In the late 90's, he relocated to the USA. During this period, he developed security applications to augment the Wells Fargo bank's security infrastructure. This job introduced a lot of security technology that helped him to develop an interest in the security arena.

Inspired by the innovations of Sun Microsystems Inc., specifically RPC/NFS (not Java at that time), he wanted to work for Sun at some point in his career. He eventually started at Sun as a consultant to develop the tests for Solaris kernel libraries. Later, he worked as an employee for almost a decade in various capacities at Sun Microsystems Inc. Now, as part of the Oracle Corporation, Indira is serving as a Senior Manager in software development, managing the Fusion middleware access management quality engineering organization. His expertise and interests includes the quality engineering process, automation, LDAP, webservices, System Administration, networking, IAM, and Security. Indira has been associated with the OpenSSO product since its inception and is instrumental in delivering a high quality product to its customers.

If not working, he is playing with his kids besides growing grapes in his garden. Indira teaches the Tamil language to the kids at California Tamil Academy—a non-profit organization. Indira blogs about technologies and OpenSSO on his blogs http://blogs.sun.com/indira/ and http://indirat.wordpress.com.