"What is most essential cannot be learnt; it can only be reached by direct experience."
Govind is a recognized authority on Enterprise Computing and is a frequently invited speaker at industry conferences worldwide. Govind currently works as Practice Leader - Enterprise Application Integration, for Cognizant Technology Solutions. His areas of interest include SOA, Messaging and Security. Prior to this, Govind was Director of Product Development for the EAI software company SeeBeyond (now part of Sun Microsystems) and managed the development of a number of products integral to the ICAN (now renamed SUN JCAPS) suite. The industry journal Business Integration voted the ICAN integration suite as "Product of the Year" for 2004. ICAN was also pivotal in launching SeeBeyond into the Leaders quadrant of The Gartner Group's Magic Quadrant for Integration Backbone Software vendors.
Govind has served on multiple expert groups (via JCP) at Sun Microsystems responsible for
creating the J2EE 1.3, Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 specifications.
Govind has independently consulted with leading companies like IBM, Sony and Advance PCS. Additionally, he has served as Chief Architect for CBS StoreRunner Network and has been a founding member of jGuru - the #1 Java portal. Early in his career, Govind led the implementation of one of the industry's first AI-based automated underwriting system as Lead Analyst for the S&P 500 company MGIC Investment Corporation.
Govind is the author of Enterprise Java Computing (Cambridge University
Press, 1999), which was also translated and published in Japanese as Java 2 (Omsha, 2000). He was a contributing author for Special Edition:Using Java 1.1 (Que Publications, 1997), and Special Edition: Using Netscape LiveConnect (Que Publications, 1997).
Govind has also published extensively on Distributed and Web computing issues in leading journals including Dr. Dobb's Journal, Sun's Java Developer Connection, Java Report, Javaworld and
Java Developers Journal.
He has been the "Distributed
Computing" columnist for Java Report magazine, founding editor-in-chief of SIGS
' Java Report
Online, and served as the President of the Wisconsin
Java Users Group for over two years.
Govind earned his Masters degree in Computer
Science from the University of
Wisconsin, with an
emphasis on Software Engineering.
Conferences where Govind has presented at as an invited speaker include:
Software Security Summit - San Diego,
February 2005
Java Jam III - Alaska,
September 2002
SD Web Services World - Boston, August 2001
CNET eDevCon - New Orleans, December 2000
JavaCon 2000 - Santa Clara, September 2000
Application Development 2000 - London, June 2000
JavaOne - San Francisco, June 2000
ACM Java Grande - San Francisco, June 2000
O'Reilly Conference on Java - Santa Clara, March 2000
SIGS Conference for Java Development - San Jose, March 2000
Object Expo - New York City, February 2000
Java DevCon - San Jose, November 1999
Object Expo - New York City, March 1999
Java DevCon - San Jose, October 1998
Object Expo Europe - London, June 1998
Web Design and Development - San Francisco, June 1998
Object Expo - New York City, March 1998
Object Oriented Programming Europe - Munich, February 1998
Object Expo France - Paris, November 1997
Object Expo/Java Expo Switzerland - Zurich, October 1997
International Conference for Java Development - Chicago, September
1997
