Vishnu Pendyala is a senior member of IEEE and of the Computer Society of India (CSI), with over two decades of software experience with industry leaders such as Cisco, Synopsys, Informix (now IBM) and Electronics Corporation of India Limited. He recently taught a short-term course on Big Data Analytics, which was sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources, Government of India and delivered multiple keynotes in IEEE sponsored international conferences and Perforce, Clearcase user conferences.