Kamesh Kamesh Ramakrishna Aiyer

About Kamesh Kamesh Ramakrishna Aiyer

Systems Architect and Software designer with a wide range of experience from AI systems to User Interface design to Storage systems and standards development.Writer - fiction, fantasy, re-imagined history.2015\"The Last Kaurava\" was released Nov 20th by Leadstart Publishing. The book has been made available through a small number of bookstores in India as well as Amazon.*, Flipkart, and Pustakmandi. A website and Facebook page KameshRamakrishna were released.2013-14Worked with editors Jayashree Anand and Padmini Smetacek to get the content ready. Leadstart agrees to publish \"The Last Kaurava\".Started a blog to provide the geographic/demographic/cultural background for the events in the planned series of books. 2012I just published two books via Amazon Kindle - see details below. Links to: http://amzn.to/KqxJOE and http://amzn.to/MpNK58.Software Systems DesignMy most recent job was with the NAS group at EMC working on systems management architecture and standards. I was co-chair of the Filesystems Management working group of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and on other working groups of SNIA and the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) developing systems management standards.Prior to EMC, I was CTO and co-founder at Kriticka, a web-enabled knowledge-based work-flow engine for the label industry. Before that, I consulted, worked for D.E.Shaw (Farsight), Software.com, Benchmarking Partners (now Surgency).From 19••••96, I worked in New York city with Credit Suisse First Boston in the Fixed Income group developing software applications; earlier, I was architect for Motif 2.0 at the Open Software Foundation; I have multiple patents on Expert systems while at Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1980s.PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence and Human Factors) from Carnegie-Mellon University School of Computer Science, 1981, working with Professor Allen Newell.Specialties: As a Writer - Children\'s stories, Mythology, Fantasy.As a Software Consultant - NAS Systems Management, Systems Management standards (DMTF and SNIA), System Architecture & Design, Standards development, User Interface design, Usability Engineering.

Experience

1. Consultant

   Kashi Software Architects, Inc

   Jul 2007 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   I am available for part-time consulting assignments. I will bring order and rationality to an out-of-control software project. I can moderate discussions between technical stakeholders - product managers, customers and users), design and development engineers, test/quality engineers. If appropriate, I will conduct a comprehensive review of the design and software system architecture which will produce the architecture document that your customers want.As consulting architect to Adaptive Engineering for their Concourse project, identified, addressed, and resolved database and communication security issues with the design, coordinated cooperation between their India-based and Serbia-based software development groups, scaled the product from a prototype 8 simultaneous users to greater than Concourse subsequently drew awards and accolades as an original leading-edge application (2009 Red Herring Award, 2009 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award, Hot Companies New Technology and Solutions).

Education

• Bombay Scottish

  ISC, Science

  1963 — 1968

• Carnegie Mellon University

  Ph.D., Computer Science

  1974 — 1981

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

  BS/BTech, Electrical Engineering

  1969 — 1974

Skills

• Software Project Management
• Management
• Leadership
• User Interface Design
• Xml
• Integration
• System Architecture
• Standards Development
• Usability Engineering
• Distributed Systems
• Perl
• Software Engineering
• Databases
• Software Design
• Indian Mythology
• Writing Fiction
• C++
• Software Development