Pethuru Raj has been working as the chief architect and vice president in the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Center of Excellence, Reliance Infocomm Ltd. (RIL), Bangalore. He previously worked as a cloud infrastructure architect in the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), IBM India Bangalore for four years. Prior to that, He had a long stint as TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Consulting Services (WCS) Division. He also worked as a lead architect in the corporate research (CR) division of Robert Bosch, Bangalore. In total, He have gained more than 17 years of IT industry experience and 8 years of research experience. He obtained his PhD through CSIR-sponsored PhD degree in Anna University, Chennai and continued the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Thereafter, He was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities. Regarding the publications, He have published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM, Springer-Verlag, Inderscience, etc. He has authored 7 books thus far and He focus on some of the emerging technologies such as IoT, Cognitive Analytics, Blockchain, Digital Twin, Docker-enabled Containerization, Data Science, Microservices Architecture, etc. He has contributed 25 book chapters thus far for various technology books edited by highly acclaimed and accomplished professors and professionals. The CRC Press, USA had also released his first book titled as “Cloud Enterprise Architecture” in the year 2012 and you can find the book details in the page http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466502321 He has edited and authored a book on the title” Cloud Infrastructures for Big Data Analytics” published by IGI International USA in March 2014. A new book on the title” Smarter Cities: the Enabling Technologies and Tools” by CRC Press, USA, is to hit the market in the month of June 2015. He has collaborating with a few authors to publish a book on the title “High-Performance Big Data Analytics” to be published by Springer-Verlag in the year 2015.