AB Vijay is an IBM Fellow and IBM Master Inventor, who has more than 58 patents filed in his name. He is the CTO of Hybrid Cloud Management and Platform Engineering Services. Hybrid Cloud Management is the largest unit in Hybrid Cloud Services and contributes to 40-50% of GBS revenue. AB is responsible for providing the technology strategy and defining new offerings aligning to Hybrid Multi-Cloud & Edge( such as AIOps, Platform Engineering Services, RISE with SAP, SaaS Managed Service offerings). He is also responsible for bringing new-age engineering practices to Hybrid Cloud Management, such as Resiliency engineering, platform engineering, chaos engineering, quality engineering, etc). He is responsible for defining the technology platform, tools and processes. He is responsible for providing the solution guidance, defining the new delivery methods, and supporting the Delivery organizations to scale to the new ways of working. He works with IBM Research, IBM cloud and cognitive, Nordcloud, Taos, and other IBM units, to bring an integrated technology PoV and build differentiators.
He is a recognized as subject matter expert for his contribution to advanced mobility in automotive and has led several implementations involving complex industry solutions. He specializes in mobile, cloud, containers, automotive, sensor-based machine-to-machine, Internet of Things, and telematics technologies. He has won various prestigious awards including the IBM Corporate award, Best of IBM 2015 and 2019, Outstanding technical achievement award.
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