Ignesius Ernest Thambyraj

Ignesius Ernest Thambyraj (Ignesius) is a Cloud Technology and Software Product development leader with over 30 years of Software industry experience in Enterprise Systems, Cloud Infrastructure and High-Performance Computing.

Ignesius is currently the Director General at Cloud Computing Innovation Council of India (CCICI).

Ignesius has been the Engineering Head/Architect for IBM healthcare client Kaiser Permanente for their Large Unix Cloud Datacenters and the Technical Director at IBM Systems and Technology Lab for IBM Power Systems - Unix (AIX) Development Lab and High-Performance Computing Lab. He has been the Head of IBM Center of Excellent for High Performance Computing at IBM India and the lead for Collaboration projects with IBM T J Watson Research Centre. He has also served as the Engineering Director at AMD for GPU accelerated solutions for Deep Learning and other HPC verticals.

He has worked at IBM Raleigh, USA as the technical lead in the development of IBM Network router software and at IBM Boca Raton, Florida, USA as the component lead in the development of IBM Virtualization.

Ignesius is a founding member and Lead Software Architect at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) for the development of India’s first Parallel Computer PARAM.

He has been an Industry Member (Ex) – Expert Group on Infrastructure - National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) - Government. Of India

He is also currently serving as a Technical Committee Member, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government. of India