products we were one of the first global companies to set up a fullfledged rdcentre in bengaluru in 2002 since then our india bengaluru hyderabad engineering centres continue to be a source of extraordinary talent strong execution and impactyahoos teams here work on several critical areas like global product development application mobile development production engineering including deployment cicd and support database storage management network administration dns edge infrastructure and even sales operationsvmware india granted 200 patents last year 91515011global cloud computing and virtualization firm vmware has its largest rd center in india ramani panchapakesan senior director of rd at vmware india says last year the firms engineers were granted over 200 patents that should give you an idea of the immense talent that is housed at vmware india our engineers in india are also amongst the top contributors to opensource projects around kubernetes cloud native computing foundation cncf and other cloud native projects we conduct workshops and mentor other indian contributors to start their journey and contribute to kubernetes nikhita raghunath who is a staff engineer is one of the top contributors to kubernetes globally nabarun pal an infrastructure engineer was one of the first in the apac region to lead a global kubernetes 121 release he saysubers seamless ridehailing techbehind every successful uber ride is the technology that works with impeccable precision manikandan thangarathnam senior director of engineering at uber says this tech is increasingly being designed at ubers engineering centres in bengaluru and hyderabad the teams here work on products and services that are used locally and globally during the pandemic the teams were focused on helping customers across the world adapt to the new normal from working on ways to detect the riders masks creating a new lastmile delivery service to get everyday essentials delivered to peoples doorsteps and even helping organisations with their return to work processdells worldclass serverssudha k v vice president at dell technologies india says their bengaluru rd centre has been instrumental in bringing about cuttingedge technology in the server portfolio right from conceptualisation of the servers to product upgrade and then retiring the offerings and thinking about the next product and technology trends the bengaluru rd centre is the locus of innovation the centre has filed over 100 patents in the last 34 yearsto integrate software and hardware with specific capabilities the rd centre runs about 7 petabytes of networking traffic 1600 virtual machines and 1400 test configurations to mimic all possible customer scenariosambees smart farming tech 91515216agritech firms like ambee are at the heart of a digital green revolution madhusudhan anand cto and cofounder says the firms engineers have developed a suite of apis for the natural integration of satellite images remote sensing data datadriven analytics and forecasts to agricultural applications and machine learning the apis track soil weather vegetation land use plantation using remote sensing or onground sensing and many factorsthat affect a farms productivity primarily due to the impact of industrialised agricultural practices and