Appan Ponnappan

Appan Ponnappan has over 25 years of experience in the software industry. Appan began their career in 1995 as a Technical Lead at Sasken. In 1996, they moved to Motorola Software Labs as a Technical Lead. In 2000, they joined the Institute for Infocomm Research as a Research Associate, where they led a team of 5 people in the implementation of Policy-based Management System for QoS in the Internet. In 2004, they took on the role of Project Manager at Siemens Communication Software, where they were instrumental in getting the business for Policy Control Server (PCS) product team of 10 people and setting up the team from scratch. Appan was also the technical lead for the proposal & implementation of Hybrid policy server for both 3G and Packet Cable access networks. In 2006, they joined IBM India as an IT Architect, where they were the co-creator & lead architect of Web 2.0 based Collaboration Platform for maintaining current information about legacy telco OSS/BSS applications. In 2009, they became a Self-Employed Technology Consultant. In 2010, they returned to Tejas Software Inc. as a Technical Architect and ALM Practice Lead. In 2015, they were promoted to Technical Architect at Tejas Software Inc. and in 2020, they became an Independent Consultant. In 2022, they were appointed as the Non Executive Director at Tejas Software Inc., where they provide consulting on software process improvements using DevOps, Data Analysis, E-Commerce and Salesforce CRM.

Appan Ponnappan's education history includes a Masters in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) from 1987 to 1991, a B.Sc from Madurai Kamaraj University from 1984 to 1987, and a Science degree from Setupathi Higher Secondary School, Madurai from 1979 to 1984. Appan has also obtained a number of certifications from LinkedIn, including Elasticsearch Essential Training and The Step-by-Step Guide to Building your Thought Leadership on LinkedIn in April 2021, as well as DevOps Foundations: DevSecOps, DevOps Foundations: Site Reliability Engineering, Ken Blanchard on Servant Leadership, Azure: Understanding the Big Picture, Kubernetes: Cloud Native Ecosystem, Kubernetes: Monitoring with Prometheus, Kubernetes: Native Tools, Learning Docker, Learning Kubernetes, Master Cloud-Native Infrastructure with Kubernetes, Microservices: Design Patterns, Systems Thinking, Google Cloud Vision API by Example, Learning Lean IT, Strategic Agility, Azure for Architects: Design a Migration Strategy, DevOps Foundations: Microservices, Architecting Big Data Applications: Real-Time Application Engineering, and others between June 2020 and April 2021.