Shankar Ramaswamy has spent over 25 years in engineering, building scalable and mission-critical user, business, and technology platforms at companies like Google, Apigee, Paypal, eBay, AWS, IBM, THBS, and Transarc. Shankar has received several academic and professional awards and has authored numerous research papers and patents. He received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.