Sudhir Menon is one of the key architects for the Gemfire & SQLFire. Sudhir is the Head of Products for all Real Time and Big Data products at Pivotal. He holds multiple patents in the areas of scaled up networking systems. His expertise in distributed data management spans multiple languages (Java, C++ and .NET) and multiple platforms and he has architected and developed network stacks for the last 10+ years. He holds an engineering degree in Computers from Pune University and an MBA from Babson College.