Dinesh Shahane — Senior Vice President of Engineering at Ellie Mae

Mr. Dinesh Shahane has been Senior Vice President of Engineering at Ellie Mae, Inc. since September 2017. Mr. Shahane is responsible for architecture and all horizontal technologies for Ellie Mae's Encompass Lending Platform, including new investments in data, analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Prior to joining Ellie Mae, he was the Chief Technology Officer of SAP Ariba, where he led its technology vision, Ariba's Cloud Platform and Advanced Technology Incubations and drove key cloud technology topics such as multi-tenancy, scalability, security, user interface and open ecosystem. He facilitated the technical community within SAP Ariba and chaired the Technology Advisory Board and several focus groups within the executive Customer Advisory Board. Mr. Shahane was a key member of SAP's CTO circle, where he drove platform topics including Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning, Blockchain and Future Business Networks. Prior to joining SAP Ariba in 2010, he served as the Chief Architect at Composite Software Inc., a data virtualization company leading the federated SQL and XQuery engine. He joined Composite from TIBCO, where he architected BusinessWorks, the industry's leading Business Process Engine and the ActiveMatrix SOA Platform. At TIBCO, he was actively involved in Open Source and standards bodies such as W3C, Oasis and Java Community on topics such as XML, Web Services and Security. Mr. Shahane graduated from the Mumbai University (India) with a degree in Computer Science.