About Author & Technical Reviewer
Bhagvan Kommadi is a seasoned IT leader with over 20 years of experience and is currently working as a Chief Information Officer. He ensures the IT performance to operate at high productivity and delivers high business value to the customers and employees. He establishes policies and the IT best practices in the company with the right IT Governance to meet Compliance requirements. He is responsible for ensuring data quality, integrity, and security standards in the IT infrastructure.
He has done Masters in Industrial Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1997) and Bachelors in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1993). He is an Individual member of Oracle JCP. He has published papers on IEEE, JIMR, Johr Online, and the Association of Data Scientists (ADaSci) on latest technologies. He is a TEDx Speaker and presented at EuroPython, Pycon, ClueCon Weekly, World RPA Conference, and Avios conferences. He has worked extensively in FinTech Space in various verticals such as Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance.
Bhagvan has worked for Fortune 500 companies including JPMC, Fidelity, Oracle, Siebel, Citi, American Express, ING, ENBD, Pacific Corp, and Kaiser Permanente. He has provided technology and business process reengineering consulting guidance and implemented various new-generation platforms for business enablement.
Bhagvan founded Quantica Computacao, the first quantum computing startup in India. He has positioned Quantica Computacao in the ‘Emerging Companies’ section of Quantum Computing quadrants. The company's focus is on developing quantum cryptographic tools which will be able to provide quantum-proof data security, which will help banking institutions protect their transactions.
He contributes to open-source projects, blogs, and the latest technology stacks such as Go, Python, Django, Node.js and Java, Mysql, Postgres, Mongo, and Cassandra. He has presented at IEEE, Avios, Astricon, Devcon, and PyCon on topics such as Adaptive Learning and AI Coder.
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ABOUT TECHNICAL REVIEWER
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Sudin Baraokar holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai. He is an innovator in emerging and deep technologies, with extensive experience as CIO, CTO, and IT Advisor at major organizations such as SBI, Barclays, IBM, and GE. Currently, he serves as IT Advisor to global organizations and academia and is the founder of a deep tech startup.
Sudin has expertise in over 70 technologies and platforms, including AI, cybersecurity, quantum computing, data science, IoT, blockchain, cloud computing, low code/no code development, digital transformation, and enterprise architecture. He established the Bankchain Alliance, a consortium of over 30 banks focused on emerging tech solutions.
At SBI, Sudin transformed the core banking systems to handle 24,000 transactions per second and 1.5 billion transactions per day, serving over 500 million customers and 700 million accounts. He also developed the SBI YONO smart mobile banking application, which has over 50 million users.
Currently, Sudin is developing AI-based digital transformation platforms for supply chain management (SCM), trade tech, fintech, regtech, and risk tech. He has trained over 1 million professionals, entrepreneurs, faculty, and students in deep tech and emerging technologies. He has conducted and delivered over 1,000 technology and digital transformation events. Additionally, he has mentored over 500 startups.
Sudin is a global keynote speaker on topics such as emerging tech, deep tech, innovations, and collaboration. In his free time, he enjoys golfing, singing, volunteering for charity, and researching future tech, economics, sports, and history.