He has been in IT industry since 1977. Currently he is Advisor - Education and Research for Infosys Technologies Limited. He has held senior management positions in Government and Private sector across wide range of responsibilities in the IT industry. He led the Infosys charge in scaling their education program from a few thousands to a capacity for training over 40000 engineering and science graduates into IT industry. He was a key lead for the team that defined and created a solid certification framework and guiding the creation and delivery of the multifarious programs for ongoing competence development of Infoscions. The innovative and one of the most successful Industry- Institution programs named Campus Connect was conceptualized by him. This program has caught the imagination of countries in Americas including USA and APAC apart from close 500 Indian engineering colleges in tier 2 and 3 towns. Perceptible changes have been experienced in the rate of employment for graduates from these colleges. Learning outcome based measurements done so far are very encouraging. He has worked as or holds the following roles:

1. The Joint Chairman of the All India Board of IT of AICTE under Chairmanship of Prof. D. Acharya
2. Member of Task force of the NKC
3. Advisor to ISTE
4. Founding Member of the Executive Council of IUCEE
5. Member of the Advisory Board of MIT for DOEACC and several such committees of the Government and Autonomous bodies looking into excellence in engineering education.
6. He was the SVP and Head of E & R of Infosys as also Chairman of the Education Governance Council of Infosys.

Recently elected as Chairman of the CII Task force on higher education policy which should help CII to influence the governing bodies to create a freer and healthier environment for world class higher education and help India cease the opportunity given us due to demographic dividend.

He has several publications to his credit in his parent field as also in the field of IT and education. He has won several recognitions throughout his education and later. He was elected Infosys Fellow in 2002. Earlier in his research career he won fellowships of CSIR, India and IISc post doctoral research fellowship.