When he was a computer science student at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, the focus was on buying on-premise computers. Now, 30 years later, it is on renting cloud space, says Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, chief technology officer, energy and mobility, Microsoft India, and Azure Global, India.
At the 63 rd Institute Day on Tuesday, the 1993-batch B. Tech computer science graduate was presented with the distinguished alumnus award. Dr. Shivkumar, with two doctoral degrees from the U.S., was a full tenure professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. He gave up the post and returned to India “for personal reasons and to be closer to his parents”.
In his current position, his aim is to find ways to “leverage the advanced digital infrastructure that India has to bypass the physical infrastructure. India has a huge potential to become a software service provider for the world,” he says.
