He has more than 18 years of experience in the cloud computing, networking, and data communication domains. Currently, he works for IBM’s cloud application services and partner marketplace offerings. Vinod has worked on architecting, deploying, and running IBM’s PaaS offering (BlueMix) on the SoftLayer infrastructure cloud. He also provides consultancy and advisory services to clients across the globe on the adoption of cloud technologies. He is currently focusing on various applications and services on the IBM Marketplace/BlueMix/SoftLayer platform. He is a graduate engineer from the National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, and completed his master’s degree at BITS, Pilani.