Chandrasekar Vuppalapati is a seasoned Software IT Executive with diverse experience in software technologies, enterprise software architectures, cloud computing, big data business analytics, internet of things (IoT), and software product and program management. He has held engineering and product leadership positions at Microsoft, GE Healthcare, Cisco Systems, St. Jude Medical, and Lucent Technologies. Chandrasekar has an MS in software engineering from San Jose State University (USA) and an MBA from Santa Clara University (USA) and currently teaches software engineering, large-scale analytics, data science, mobile computing, cloud technologies, and web and data mining at San Jose State University (USA).