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Sherif Kottapurath, CEO Sherif Kottapurath, CEO

iCalibrator was founded by Mr. Sherif Kottapurath in early 2007. He was formerly the CTO of the India Engineering Center of Sun Microsystems and has more than 25 years of IT industry experience. He is the CEO of iCalibrator.

 

His experience in the IT industry encompasses various technologies. He started his career in Wipro Infotech's Operating Systems group. Starting with OSes like DBOS, WDOS, he moved onto porting of Xenix to Wipro's 286 based platforms. He was also involved in porting SVR3 and SVR4 Unix onto Wipro's Motorola and Intel based platforms. He worked with the SVR4 consortium to MP enable SVR4 Unix on i486 at Intel. He was also a key member of the i860 porting team at Intel.

 

He also interfaced with Intel to get parts of the SVID test suites developed in India. He was also instrumental in establishing Wipro Global R&D's first office in USA. When Sherif left Wipro, he was heading both the software and hardware teams working on Intel server platforms at Wipro.

In 1992, Mr. Kottapurath joined Sun Microsystems in California to single handedly port Solaris Intel to multi processor machines. He defined the architecture to be used for abstracting the hardware dependent portions for easy porting. While at Sun in USA, he worked on various performance related projects involving world record setting TPC-C benchmarks using Oracle, TPC-D benchmarks with Informix and Web server benchmarks with Sun web server. He also worked on the NUMA project for some time, before returning to India in 2000. He moved to India as CTO for the India Engineering Center, Sun Microsystems, Bangalore. In this role, he was involved in collaborative research activities with IITs, and international standards efforts in the web proxy arena. He also worked on Solaris related projects and as an architect for the Sun Java Application Server.

During the 25 years he has been in the IT industry, Sherif has been a mentor to dozens of IT professionals who are currently holding high positions in large IT organizations and has been involved in conducting many training programmes.
Pramod Saini, CTO Pramod Saini, CTO
Pramod Saini, former CTO of Momentum Technologies and with more than 19 years of IT experience joined iCalibrator as partner and is currently the CTO of iCalibrator.

Pramod was also a co-founder of Momentum Technologies, a leading software services organization in Noida. After an acquisition of his business by the French IT leader, Sopra Group, Pramod decided to work towards enhancing the IT skills of software professionals world wide. He is now the CTO at iCalibrator, which focuses on this objective.
Before co-founding Momentum, Pramod worked at Wipro's Global R&D. He was involved in the development of the first Unix based multi-processor system in India. Pramod has extensive experience in a variety of technologies including Operating Systems, device drivers, Java, and Microsoft Technologies. Pramod is very passionate about the use of Linux and other Open Source technologies in the IT sector. He also nurtures a dream of creating a large pool of very smart IT engineers.

Pramod holds a Bachelors Degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering and a Masters Degree in Computer Science, both from IIT, Chennai.
Aruna Saini, Director Aruna Saini, Director

Aruna Saini, with more than 15 years of IT experience is a Director of iCalibrator.

Aruna was a senior technical architect at Momentum Technologies, a leading software services organization in Noida. Aruna specializes in various software technology areas including design and architecture, and software engineering and processes. Aruna has worked extensively in areas related to Operating Systems, device drivers, firmware, systems applications, Java, and Microsoft Technologies.

 

At iCalibrator, Aruna is involved in the creation of various course materials as well as the various technical tools used in the training and certification infrastructure.

Aruna holds a Bachelors Degree in Electronics from College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, and an M.E. in System Science and Automation from IISc, Bangalore.