Oracle Propel 2020

David Cross: David is the Senior Vice President for the Oracle SaaS Cloud Security engineering and operations organization. Previously, David was the public Cloud Security Engineering Director in the Google Security and Privacy organization and his preceding 18 years were spent with Microsoft in numerous security cloud, product and engineering leadership roles. David holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems as well as an MBA with a Management Information Systems concentration and is a longtime advocate of security application and technology stemming back to his US military service.

Glenn Beeswanger: Glenn Beeswanger is responsible for SaaS Engineering at Oracle, accountable for the Operations of our SaaS services globally. This function includes SaaS Security, Compliance, the Oracle Service Centers, Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE), Service Operations, Operations Field Support, and SaaS@Customer.

Glenn’s career traverses Development and Operations, but always in Services, for the past 24 years. He joined Oracle in 2018 coming to us from Salesforce, where he led Infrastructure Programs, including their move to Public Cloud.

At Yahoo, he ran development teams for Search and Media. While at Microsoft, Glenn led Operations for their services, including launching the first Azure Service Center. Before Microsoft, he was Vice President of Operations for eBay & PayPal, and Excite@Home. Glenn started his career in development at IBM Canada.

Glenn’s areas of expertise include leadership, DevSecOps, large scale services, running operations centers and support centers, managing remote operations, process engineering, negotiation, and vendor management as well as trying new startups.

Originally from Toronto Canada, Glenn moved to the Bay Area in 1999, has three children (8, 21, and 23), and now resides in Willow Glen, CA. His wife, Tara leads HR for an autonomous driving startup in the area. He played hockey his entire life up until recently but remains an avid fan. An OPEN ally, Glenn gets involved in all kinds of diversity activities in addition to other volunteer activities.

David Cross: David is the Senior Vice President for the Oracle SaaS Cloud Security engineering and operations organization. Previously, David was the public Cloud Security Engineering Director in the Google Security and Privacy organization and his preceding 18 years were spent with Microsoft in numerous security cloud, product and engineering leadership roles. David holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems as well as an MBA with a Management Information Systems concentration and is a longtime advocate of security application and technology stemming back to his US military service.

Gene Kim: Gene Kim is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, researcher, and multiple award-winning CTO. He has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999 and was the founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years.

Gene Kim is the author of six books including The Unicorn Project (2019), and co-author of the Shingo Publication Award winning Accelerate, The DevOps Handbook, and The Phoenix Project.

Since 2014, Gene has been the founder and organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit, studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.

Mohamed Sleem: Mohamed Sleem is a Product Manager in the OCI Observability team where he is responsible for shaping the long-term roadmap & strategy for OCI Logging, Events, Audit, and SIEM. He joined OCI in October 2018, and was previously a Product Manager in Azure. He has also previously been in Product Manager roles working on Search, Indexing, and Analytics technologies in products such as Bing and Microsoft Office.

Vimal Kocherla: Vimal Kocherla is the Product Manager for the OCI Monitoring Service. He is currently focused on onboarding external customers and internal Oracle Services to the Monitoring Service to provide visibility into the health and performance of their infrastructure for meeting Observability needs. The Monitoring Service provides metrics from OCI Services while enabling customers to ingest custom metrics and set alarms for alerting when resources are outside their preferred thresholds.

Eric: Eric is the Director of Software Development based in the Philadelphia area. He has been with Oracle for 9 years. Outside of work, you’ll find him outdoors, generally running after their two young children.

Shelby Jones: Shelby Jones, Principal Program Manager, B2C Service Development. Shelby has been with Oracle for 9 years as part of the Oracle B2C Service team. She spent a few years as part of the Technical Support group before moving into Development. Her #1 goal is delivering on-time, high quality releases to customers.

Sarah Tidd: Sarah Tidd, Sr. Director, B2C Service Program Management. Sarah ensures on-time, high quality delivery of key features, timely software releases, customer updates, and successful application life cycle management - while seeking out improvements to be made and executing on them. There is no value outside customer value - getting customers our latest and greatest as quickly as possible is paramount.

Bhaskar Zeminder: Bhaskar has been with Oracle for more than 6 years. He manages DevOps for Oracle Knowledge. Bhaskar has a Masters in Computers with 17 years of experience. In addition, he completed an Executive Management Program from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.He is a proud father of two twin daughters studying in standard-1 in Bangalore, India. Apart from work I enjoy practicing music with my daughters.

Riju Reghunath: Riju Reghunath is a Senior Principal Application Engineer with Oracle service cloud team . For last 2 years he is working on transforming legacy and traditional datacenter based application into Oracle cloud infrastructure using Micro-services based architecture and cloud native technologies. He is one of contributor in making Oracle cloud based SAAS offerings to be more observable.

Raghu Guruvayurappan: Raghu Guruvayurappan is a Principal Application engineer with Oracle Service cloud team. For last 5 years he is working predominately on analytics module of browser based solution for service cloud CX and Engagement Engine (Rules engine for proactive engagement with end users). Also he played a major role in "Lift and Shift" of Engagement Engine product from Legacy data center to OCI.

Srikanth S Krishnan: Srikanth S Krishnan, VP Automation Development, HCM cloud. Srikanth has been with Oracle for more than 15 years and a big believer of testing & automation in enterprise applications.

Srishti Sofat: Srishti Sofat is Group Vice President Development for CX Marketing, Responsys and CrowdTwist. She brings over 20 years of experience building and scaling large scale internet consumer and enterprise software products.

Srishti has been solving interesting problems in Marketing Automation, Personalization, Mobile, Mar-Tech, Enterprise Content Management and Consumer Search to help a global set of customers.

Prabakar Paulsami: Prabakar Paulsami, joined oracle Hyderabad in 2004. Worked with ERP for few years and then moved to Sales Cloud - Bangalore. Part of CX group now and working with multiple CX products. (Field Service, B2C Service, Intelligent Advisor, Engagement Engine etc).

Anoop Kuncheria: Anoop Kuncheria joined Oracle in 2013 March, and is part of Oracle Service Cloud development organization. He has been working with multiple Service Cloud products, and most recently he led the effort to migrate the Engagement Engine product to OCI.

Ben Jacob: Ben Jacob is part of Oracle since 2015 February, and has been a lead engineer of the Oracle Service Cloud development team. He has niche experience in OCI, and has played a key role in the migrate efforts of Engagement Engine to OCI."

Chirag Andani: Chirag has been with Oracle for last 16 years. In his current role, he’s responsible for managing Identity & Access management services for Oracle’s SaaS platforms and services with a focus on SRE and security tools. Chirag leads the embedded engineers with 'operate what you build' agile engineering teams. The responsibility includes auto-remediation/self-healing, monitoring instrumentation, chaos engineering, and enabling production changes. Chirag spearheads security processes such as no-standing access to customer data and “break glass”, offering transparency and controls to customers regarding Oracle’s access to customer data whether at rest or in-use. Chirag is a passionate advocate of customer success and diverse experience at dealing with all stages of customer engagement to deliver secure applications within a cloud Architecture and delivery model.

Manish Verma: Manish Verma is a Group Vice President in Oracle SaaS Development Group. Manish joined Oracle in 1998 in what was then called Front Office product development group which later evolved into CRM. Manish led development of EBS TeleService Applications, Siebel Self Service Apps, Fusion CRM and Inquira Knowledge, taking On-Premise knowledge product to multi tenant cloud service known as OKCS. Manish is now responsible for Service Excellence Initiatives for all SaaS properties under Steve Miranda, including Service Health Reviews and SPEC

Richard Bair: Richard came to Oracle through the Sun Microsystems acquisition. He was the chief client architect of the Java platform at the time, which was a wonderful experience where he got to work with a lot of amazing engineers and present frequently on the main stage at Java One and Devoxx and other conferences. A few years after the acquisition Richard transitioned to be one of the architects on the Internet of Things project at Oracle, which gave him an opportunity to work on applications again. A few years ago he jumped on the management track and took responsibility for infrastructure and cloud architecture for the IoT and Block Chain Applications.

Naresh Israni: Naresh Israni is Sr Director in Oracle Knowledge Product Development. This is his 2nd innings with Oracle. He was with Oracle India for 13+ years between 2004 and 2017 and joined back in October’2019. Naresh brings more 25 years of product development and consulting experience. In his previous role, he was leading team to convert a on-prem application from a monolith structure to micro services based architecture for cloud native application.

Vikas Adavani: Vikas Adavani is Development Manager in Oracle Knowledge with an overall 13+ years of experience. He has been with Oracle and Oracle Knowledge team for little more than 7.5 years and 2 years as manager. He has been involved in Knowledge integration with various CRM systems and migration of OnPrem to Oracle Service Cloud. Currently leading a scrum team for moving OK Ontology to microservices based architecture for Project Spectra.

Jaydeep Shisode: Jaydeep Shisode
, Sr Manager, Cloud Operations for Responsys and CX Audience
. Jaydeep has been with Oracle for 6 years and is a strong believer in the “customer first” principle. ‘If you were a customer doing business with Oracle, what would most frustrate you as customer ? ’

Senthil Chockalingam: Senthil Chockalingam is the Director for the Oracle SaaS Cloud Fusion SaaS Engineering and Operations Organization. Senthil has 15+ years of experience, working with Oracle since 2012, Prior to Oracle Senthil was associated with Ciber and Sierra Atlantic managing Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrades and Migration projects. Senthil holds a B.E in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a certified Project Management Professional.

Shenoy : Mr. Shenoy is Group Vice President, Oracle Corporation and globally responsible for Cloud HCM Development and E-Business Suite HCM Development.

In Cloud HCM – he is responsible for Global HR, Talent Mgmt., and Compensation product engineering team. He has worked with Oracle over 20 years in various leadership positions in development organization for HCM product family. Prior to this, he has worked for various Indian IT organizations over 10 years.

Mr. Shenoy holds Mechanical Engineering degree from University of Mysore (India).

Ketaki Aggarwal: Ketaki joined Enterprise Operations in Apr 2019. In her current role, she owns ODIN DevSecOps team. She has made ODIN as a primary dashboard for many SaaS properties and continues to onboard many more SaaS properties to ODIN. She is also working on Architecting SaaS Observability and Metric collection using NextGen monitoring solution.In her previous role, she lead the Performance Engineering Practice for HGBU in Oracle. She has deep experience in Product development from scratch and architecting scalable solutions for large scale cloud and enterprise applications.

Mark Lemoine: Mark joined Oracle in August of 2018 and is currently architecting and leading development & deployment of the Octo Metrics Collection system for SaaS on OCI. Prior to Oracle Mark lead various engineering teams at Yahoo & Microsoft working on projects such as Yahoo Shopping, Bing Search, Windows Mobile & MSN. In his spare time (lol, he has two young children so there is very little) he enjoys high speed adventures downhill mountain biking.

Jaydeep Shisode: Jaydeep Shisode, Sr Manager, Cloud Operations for Responsys and CX Audience
. Jaydeep has been with Oracle for 6 years and is a strong believer in the “customer first” principle. ‘If you were a customer doing business with Oracle, what would most frustrate you as customer ? ’

David Cox: David Cox joined Oracle in July of 2017 as a transformation architect in the SaaS organization. David enjoys meeting with development and operations teams to help them create their customized plan for DevSecOps enablement. David has spent over 30 years in the industry developing software and helping transform development teams to adopt newer technologies and methodologies. In his spare time, David is also a rocket scientist and has launched a rocket 2 miles high (check out his Slack profile!).

Lauren Guidotti: Lauren Guidotti joined the DevSecOps transformation team in the SaaS organization in July of 2018. Lauren focuses on working with product teams to identify impacting projects that embody the DevSecOps principles of delivering quality products to our customers faster. Prior to working at Oracle, Lauren was a part of an SRE team at IBM with the goal of automating incident remediation for the IBM Cloud Platform, was a leader on the transformation of the Change Approval Board, and hosted weekly availability reviews across the IaaS, PaaS and SaaS teams. When not working, Lauren enjoys spending time outdoors with her 3 big dogs: Cody, Molly and Lily.

Hema Ramaduari: Hema Ramaduari has been with Oracle for 20 years. She has worked on multiple automation projects for Managed Cloud, OPC & OCI environments. She is currently part of ODIN automation group. She involved in various automation activities to provide scalable solutions to the SaaS Monitoring DevSecOps teams. Some of them include auto-remediation solutions, agent patching automation and agent self healing solutions.

Steve Miranda: Steve Miranda is Executive Vice President of Oracle Applications Product Development. He is responsible for leading all aspects of product strategy, product development, and product delivery of Oracle’s applications and related Cloud services. This includes Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle’s newest products for Customer Service and Support, Commerce, and Talent Management.

Mr. Miranda joined Oracle in 1992, and has held a variety of leadership positions within the development organization. In 2007 he was asked to lead the engineering of Oracle’s next generation suite of software applications, Oracle Fusion Applications. Under Mr. Miranda’s leadership, Oracle has continually delivered on its promise to help its applications customers innovate and remain competitive while leveraging their existing IT investments and increasing the value of those investments with new Oracle products and services.

Prior to Oracle, Mr. Miranda worked at GE Aerospace. He holds degrees in Mathematics and Computational Sciences from Stanford University.

Glenn Beeswanger: Glenn Beeswanger is responsible for SaaS Engineering at Oracle, accountable for the Operations of our SaaS services globally. This function includes SaaS Security, Compliance, the Oracle Service Centers, Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE), Service Operations, Operations Field Support, and SaaS@Customer.

Glenn’s career traverses Development and Operations, but always in Services, for the past 24 years. He joined Oracle in 2018 coming to us from Salesforce, where he led Infrastructure Programs, including their move to Public Cloud.

At Yahoo, he ran development teams for Search and Media. While at Microsoft, Glenn led Operations for their services, including launching the first Azure Service Center. Before Microsoft, he was Vice President of Operations for eBay & PayPal, and Excite@Home. Glenn started his career in development at IBM Canada.

Glenn’s areas of expertise include leadership, DevSecOps, large scale services, running operations centers and support centers, managing remote operations, process engineering, negotiation, and vendor management as well as trying new startups.

Originally from Toronto Canada, Glenn moved to the Bay Area in 1999, has three children (8, 21, and 23), and now resides in Willow Glen, CA. His wife, Tara leads HR for an autonomous driving startup in the area. He played hockey his entire life up until recently but remains an avid fan. An OPEN ally, Glenn gets involved in all kinds of diversity activities in addition to other volunteer activities.

Evelyn de Souza: Evelyn de Souza joined Oracle in 2019. She leads Oracle SaaS privacy and is works to create awareness about tools that promote respect, privacy and new possibilities with data. She has been named as part of CloudNOW's Top Ten Women in Cloud in 2014 and a Silicon Valley Business Journal Woman of Influence in 2015 in recognition of her work in the privacy arena.

Jon Mittelhauser: Jon currently runs the Technical Architecture team for the SaaS organization. One of the main projects his team owns is the “Spectra” project whose goal is to reshape the way SaaS builds and operates services. Previous to this role, Jon ran the Container Native and Developer Services organizations within OCI. That team launched 5 global services used by internal developers and external customers including OKE (our managed Kubernetes offering), Functions, API Gateway, OCIR, and CloudShell. Going back further in time, Jon is considered one of the founding fathers of the World Wide Web with more than 25 years of open source and engineering management experience. He wrote the first widely used Web browser (NCSA Mosaic for Windows) as part of his Master’s thesis at the University of Illinois and was a founding engineer of Netscape Communications. More recently he ran engineering for Nebula, Inc., was on the OpenStack foundation board and was CEO of CloudBolt Software.

Michael Wang: Michael Wang is a Sr. Manager with the OCSC team helping customer experiences by driving SaaS availability by establishing processes and tooling to ensure Service Requests, Incidents, Outages, and Communications are handled as efficiently as possible, and that any undesirable outcomes are mitigated. Michael is from the Taleo acquisition where he ran the TBE product which was a 100% virtualized SaaS offering that has adopted and pushed toward cloud strategies keeping the HCM Mid Tier world hiring