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| Pradeep is Program Director for Eclipse Strategy and Development in IBM. Prior to this he was |
| leading the Rational Software Development organization in IBM India. He has been in IBM Software |
| division since 1995 via Rational Software acquisition and has an overall industry experience of |
| 23 years in Software Engineering Tools development. He setup the first Eclipse open source |
| development lab east of Europe, in Bangalore in 2008. In the course his career at Rational and IBM, |
| he has built and led various product development teams, including products in the IBM Rational |
| Collaborative Life-cycle Management (CLM) solution built on IBM Rational Jazz platform. He is a |
| regular speaker in Conferences on Agile, DevOps, Open Source and Software Engineering. He is also |
| actively involved in organizing various conferences as a member of the program committee. |
| Pradeep has a Masters in Computer Science & Engineering. |
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