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Sanket Rathi

STSM at IBM, IBM Master Inventor, Member IBM Academy of Technology

Hyderabad

17+ years of work experience

IBM
Aug 20223 yrs 10 mosPresent

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

As an AIX Architect, I provide architectural and strategic direction for AIX development, ensuring the platform evolves in alignment with customer needs, business priorities, and emerging industry trends. My responsibilities include optimizing AIX systems to deliver high performance, scalability, and security across mission‑critical workloads, while driving modernization initiatives and cross‑component technical leadership. I also lead AI enablement on AIX, driving the porting of open‑source AI frameworks and collaborating with ISVs to integrate AI capabilities into their enterprise solutions.
IBM
Dec 20174 yrs 9 mosAug 2022

Greater Hyderabad Area

Architect for Open Source Software on AIX, responsible for defining the strategic direction, ecosystem roadmap, and technical leadership for open‑source enablement on the platform. I led the planning and delivery of open‑source technologies to AIX through the AIX Toolbox, ensuring enterprises have access to modern development tools and frameworks. This included coordinating across global teams, maintaining quality and security standards, and guiding the integration of open‑source innovations into the AIX ecosystem. As part of this role, I also spearheaded AI solutions for AIX, driving the porting of machine learning and deep learning libraries, enabling modern AI workloads on UNIX environments, and collaborating with ISVs to create production‑ready AI solutions. Additionally, I served as the User‑Space Architect for AIX, owning key areas such as AIX commands and libraries, binary compatibility, and compliance with UNIX standards. My work ensured long‑term platform stability, backward compatibility, and adherence to industry specifications across releases.
IBM
Jul 20116 yrs 6 mosDec 2017

Greater Hyderabad Area

Led many AIX and Linux device driver projects. Delivered first CAPI device driver on AIX. Worked on the porting of Linux device driver on little endian power. In mid of 2016 I also started leading AIX open source software development and AIX user space. I was responsible for all open source software delivery on AIX from AIX toolbox, AIX user space (AIX commands and libraries) and AIX Single UNIX Standard conformance. Following are the key projects I led during this time. - CAPI Flash device driver on AIX - Linux device drivers enablement on Power Linux Little Endian - Emulex 10Gb FCoE driver for AIX. - Emulex 16Gb FC driver for AIX. - AIX toolbox (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-toolbox-linux-applications-downloads-alpha)
C-DAC (R&D) ) Pune
Aug 20011 yr 10 mosMay 2003

In C-DAC I worked for development for C-DAC first tera flop super computer PARAM PADMA. - Developed Linux Device Driver and VIPL library for C-DAC’s CCP-III (VI architecture supported HBA). - Developed AIX Device Driver and VIPL library for C-DAC’s CCP-III (VI architecture supported HBA). - Ported the CCP-III device driver from Linux Kernel 2.2 to Linux Kernel 2.4. - Developed a Solaris PCI based character mode driver for testing. - Developed a VI (Virtual Interface) based test environment on Linux and AIX for testing of PARAMNET-II. - Represented our group in the installation of PARAM-PADMA. - Did Multi-node testing on PARAM-PADMA.

Education

Advanced Certification in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

IIIT Hyderabad

20191 yr2020

B.E., Computer Science

SATI Vidisha MP

19964 yrs2000

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STSM at IBM, IBM Master Inventor, Member IBM Academy of Technology

About

With 25+ years of deep experience in operating system development and platform architecture, I serve as the Chief Architect of AIX development, driving the technical direction and evolution of the AIX operating system. I define the strategy, roadmap, and engineering vision that powers mission‑critical enterprise computing. I shape how AIX adapts to emerging technologies, customer needs, and industry trends, translating them into high performance, scalable, and secure platform capabilities. As part of AIX’s longterm technical strategy, I also drive initiatives that integrate AI and platform‑level intelligence into the AIX ecosystem, enabling enterprises to run modern AI workloads and take advantage of hardware acceleration. Core Leadership & Technical Focus Areas: * AIX strategy, OS architecture, platform roadmap, and performance engineering * Technical leadership, innovation ownership, and cross‑team engineering alignment * AI on AIX: platform intelligence, AI enablement, and workload acceleration * Modernization of legacy subsystems and integration of open‑source technologies * Kernel subsystems, device drivers, I/O, virtualization, and systems software I am passionate about advancing AIX as a future ready platform, driving engineering excellence, and enabling enterprises to unlock the full potential of AIX in an AI-driven world."

Location

Hyderabad

Work experience

STSM at IBM, Aug 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, As an AIX Architect, I provide architectural and strategic direction for AIX development, ensuring the platform evolves in alignment with customer needs, business priorities, and emerging industry trends. My responsibilities include optimizing AIX systems to deliver high performance, scalability, and security across mission‑critical workloads, while driving modernization initiatives and cross‑component technical leadership. I also lead AI enablement on AIX, driving the porting of open‑source AI frameworks and collaborating with ISVs to integrate AI capabilities into their enterprise solutions.

STSM at IBM, Dec 2017 - Aug 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, Architect for Open Source Software on AIX, responsible for defining the strategic direction, ecosystem roadmap, and technical leadership for open‑source enablement on the platform. I led the planning and delivery of open‑source technologies to AIX through the AIX Toolbox, ensuring enterprises have access to modern development tools and frameworks. This included coordinating across global teams, maintaining quality and security standards, and guiding the integration of open‑source innovations into the AIX ecosystem. As part of this role, I also spearheaded AI solutions for AIX, driving the porting of machine learning and deep learning libraries, enabling modern AI workloads on UNIX environments, and collaborating with ISVs to create production‑ready AI solutions. Additionally, I served as the User‑Space Architect for AIX, owning key areas such as AIX commands and libraries, binary compatibility, and compliance with UNIX standards. My work ensured long‑term platform stability, backward compatibility, and adherence to industry specifications across releases.

Senior Software Engineer at IBM, Jul 2011 - Dec 2017 · 6 yrs 6 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, Led many AIX and Linux device driver projects. Delivered first CAPI device driver on AIX. Worked on the porting of Linux device driver on little endian power. In mid of 2016 I also started leading AIX open source software development and AIX user space. I was responsible for all open source software delivery on AIX from AIX toolbox, AIX user space (AIX commands and libraries) and AIX Single UNIX Standard conformance. Following are the key projects I led during this time. - CAPI Flash device driver on AIX - Linux device drivers enablement on Power Linux Little Endian - Emulex 10Gb FCoE driver for AIX. - Emulex 16Gb FC driver for AIX. - AIX toolbox (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-toolbox-linux-applications-downloads-alpha)

MTS at C-DAC (R&D) ) Pune, Aug 2001 - May 2003 · 1 yr 10 mos, In C-DAC I worked for development for C-DAC first tera flop super computer PARAM PADMA. - Developed Linux Device Driver and VIPL library for C-DAC’s CCP-III (VI architecture supported HBA). - Developed AIX Device Driver and VIPL library for C-DAC’s CCP-III (VI architecture supported HBA). - Ported the CCP-III device driver from Linux Kernel 2.2 to Linux Kernel 2.4. - Developed a Solaris PCI based character mode driver for testing. - Developed a VI (Virtual Interface) based test environment on Linux and AIX for testing of PARAMNET-II. - Represented our group in the installation of PARAM-PADMA. - Did Multi-node testing on PARAM-PADMA.

Education

Advanced Certification in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, IIIT Hyderabad

B.E., Computer Science, SATI Vidisha MP