Ravi Saraswathi is an IT executive with more than 20 years of global professional experience. Ravi has expertise in aligning business and IT, SOA implementation, IT strategy, cloud infrastructure design, IT operations, security, architecture, and performance tuning. For over a decade now, Ravi has been successfully delivering large-scale technical projects and solutions. He is an expert in open source and vendor-based middleware products. From his experience, he gained a solid understanding of the tools and technologies needed to create large-scale web-based software and services. Ravi currently heads the middleware engineering group for a highly-reputed Fortune 500 financial company. Ravi has spoken in several international conferences such as Apache, WebLogic conferences, and Java user group meetings. His professional focus is on technical management, SOA, middleware architecture, and infrastructure design. Ravi holds a Masters in Technology Management from George Mason University and is a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Karnataka University. Ravi holds a CIO University Certificate from Federal CIO University, General Services Administration, United States. He has extensive experience in architecting and designing solutions using various Oracle Fusion and open source middleware products. Ravi is an aspiring leader and entrepreneur. He has founded a successful IT professional consulting company. He has trained many associates in Fusion Middleware 11g to gain the skills for developing and designing solutions using Oracle SOA Suite and Service Bus. He actively contributes to the online community for open source and commercial middleware products, SOA, cloud, BPM, and infrastructure architecture technologies. Ravi holds various IT certifications such as TOGAF, Java, ITIL, Oracle, and WebLogic. His interests include open source containers, Java, infrastructure architecture, troubleshooting methodologies, and software design. Ravi blogs at www.ravisaraswathi.com.