Tune into this episode, a deep exploratory conversation between Sivaguru from PM Power Consulting and Rinka Singh, Co-Founder, AccelerateFire shares his stories of
Being a serial start-up-person
Doing things outside of the day job, including starting the Software Process Improvement Network (BSPIN), Bangalore
How he got interested in quality, process etc
The experience of getting representatives from many organizations to come together and share data
Some of the driving thoughts behind the open source movement, and Linux, in particular
Can the NIH syndrome be broken to help with opensource adoption?
How an external [customer] trigger pushes internal adoption
What would be one overarching reason to use open source
About the value proposition of superior performance for the lucene search engine, from his startup
How github is helping small companies and developers
Need for and possible implications of creating new ways of developing software
Zero cost reviews in open source
Trends influencing the software development process, including the limitations of hardware
Challenges in computing posed by large volumes of data - and dark data
The need to look beyond the von Neumann model of computing
His career advice to those aspiring for careers in IT or are looking at the next stage of growth
Rinka has conceived and is working on a Technology Startupcurrently early stage.
He has previously defined and implemented product road-maps, managed multi-million $ contracts out of India and has participated in Industry Forums his company representative.
His technology and domain experience is in the systems software and protocols which covers various processors (ARM, ATmega, x86, VIA, Alpha, Sparc, boards from Motorola, Arduino & TI), various OSs (VxWorks, pSOS & various flavors of Unices) and both Datacom (TCP/IP & IPv6 stacks, WAN & Routing protocols) and Telecom (ATM, ISDN, etc).
His specializations include architecting, product and technical management
organization management, delivery and people management .