Smitha Kulkarni Gudur, CEO, Redbasin Networks has over 18 years of Management and Engineering experience working in both large and small companies in the Silicon Valley in the field of Networking, Network Management, Wireless, Web/Cloud. She is an IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) publisher in Network Management. Smitha earned an M.S. in Information Systems from Akron, OH and an MBA from India. Smitha previous venture involved providing a scientific taxonomy software for government space research organizations. Smitha is the President of Redbasin.Org, an open source community for researchers and educators.