Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar

Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar, author of "Architecting High Performing, Scalable and Available Enterprise Web Applications" is a senior technology architect at Infosys Technologies Limited with over 13 years of industry experience. His areas of expertise include Enterprise Java technologies, performance engineering, enterprise portal technologies, user interface components, and performance optimization. He is a Guinness world-record holder of participation, for successfully developing a mobile application in coding marathon. He has four patent applications, including two US patent applications in the area of web and social technologies.He was involved in multiple large-scale and complex online transformation and digital technologies based projects for the Fortune 500 clients of his organization. He also provided on-demand consultancy in performance engineering for critical projects across variousunits in the organization. He has hands-on experience of the breadth of technologies—web technologies, portal technologies, and database technologies—and has worked on multiple domain areas such as retail, manufacturing, finance, e-commerce, avionics, and more. He was the chief architect of an online platform that won a “best web support site” award among global competitors. He also led numerous large-scale pre-sales pursuits and initiatives.He is a regular blogger at Infosys Thought Floor, and many of his technical white papers are published on the Infosys external site. He delivered two talks at the Oracle JavaOne 2013 conference on performance optimization and project management and has presented a paper at the IEEE conference on knowledge management systems. He also headed a center of excellence for portals and is currently the practice lead for enterprise portal practice at his organization and leads a group of architects. He led multiple thought leadership and productivity improvement initiatives and was part of special interest groups (SIGs) related to emerging web technologies at his organization.He holds numerous professional certifications including Oracle certified master (OCM) Java Enterprise Edition 5, Sun certified Java programmer, Sun certified business component developer, IBM certified solution architect—Cloud computing, IBM certified solution developer—IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1, and many others.He has won numerous awards including the prestigious Infosys Awards for Excellence 2013_14 “Multitalented thought leader” under “Innovation—Thought Leadership” category, “Brand ambassador award” for MFG unit, delivery excellency award, and multiple spot awards, and he has received honors from the executive vice chairman of his organization. He is featured as an “Infy star” in the Infosys Hall of Fame and recently led a delivery team that won the “best project team” award at his organization.He holds an engineering degree in computer science and has done executivemanagement programs from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He lives in Bangalore, India and can be reached at [email protected] profile page: in.linkedin.com/in/shaileshkumarshivakumar/