About

Ajay Deshpande is a Senior Director at Icertis Soln Pvt Ltd. with over 20 years of experience in software product development and team building. He has a proven track record of product engineering ownership in both startup and enterprise environments. Ajay is a technology evangelist, thought leader, hands-on mentor, and an ACM Eminent Speaker who has given talks on BigData and SMAC technologies. Ajay's hands-on experience includes designing high transaction rate main memory databases, building complex systems spanning Social, Mobility, Analytics, and Cloud (SMAC) technologies for enterprises, building an XML message crunching appliance, and event-based middleware. He has also built web applications using JavaScript frameworks. Ajay is a team builder, software architect, technology, and personal effectiveness trainer. Currently, Ajay is a Senior Director at Icertis and has previously worked as an Angel Investor at SucSEED Venture Partners and VP Engineering at Synacor. At Synacor, Ajay owned the India Engineering team for the Zimbra suite of collaboration products and provided technical leadership for the Pune-based team. He ensured that the path to building new products was obstacle-free and innovated every day to conceive and build new collaboration products. Some of the technologies he used include containers, Kubernetes, PReact, Redux, and GraphQL. Ajay holds an MTech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Gogte Institute of Technology, BELGAUM. He also attended Basel Mission School, Dharwad, for his high school education. Ajay's tech stack includes MapReduce, JavaScript, NoSQL, Hadoop, Web, Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes, Redux, and Frontend. With 27.28 years of relevant experience, Ajay is a seasoned professional with a deep understanding of the software product development industry.