B. V. Kumar

Dr Kumar is currently the Director at Altius Inc and is responsible for delivering technology based services for corporate clients. Earlier, Dr. Kumar was the Director and Chief Architect at Cognizant Technology Solutions, has an M Tech from IIT Kanpur and Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur. He has over 23 years of experience in the field of Information Technology at various levels and in organizations such as ComputerVision Corporation (Singapore), Parametric Technologies (Seoul, S. Korea), Sun Microsystems (India) and Infosys Technologies Ltd. Prior to initiating Altius Inc, Dr. Kumar was the Director and Chief Architect at the Global Technology Office of Cognizant Technology Solutions (India). He has been working on the Enterprise technology solutions for more than 12 years, particularly focusing on Java, J2EE, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, Cloud Computing, AWS, Big Data and Open Source technologies. He has also been working on CMS applications such as Joomla and Drupal and delivering training and services on mobile platforms such as Android and iPhone.

As a Director of Altius Inc, Dr. Kumar is currently focusing on Technology Consultancy, Technology Training & Evangelization, and Community Development and Project Support for the corporate clients. Dr. Kumar has two patents in the IT space and have published many technological papers in national and international journals and conferences. He has also coauthored the following books on Information Technologies - Web Services - An Introduction (2004), J2EE Architecture (2007) (McGraw-Hill Professional), Implementing SOA Using Java EE (2009) (Addison Wesley / Pearson) and Secure Java: For Web Application Development (2010) (CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group). Recently, Dr. Kumar has completed the work on the second edition of Web Services - An Introduction and has initiated the work on the second edition of Java EE Architecture book.