SVSankar Vema

Open Source & Community

Open source over patents.

I've held the same view for a long time: the compounding wins are upstream, in the open, not behind a fence. Open source over patents. Where I'm useful is in the design and the judgment, and in giving that judgment away.

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Razor & Hanlon

Provisioning
Core contributor

Co-developed Razor and Hanlon, the next-generation provisioning engine that became core to Puppet's bare-metal provisioning.

Android SDK components

Mobile
Open-source author

Published widely-used open-source components for the early Android SDK, adopted across many community projects.

Java Enterprise & JSP

Enterprise Java
Contributor

Early open-source contributions across Java Enterprise and JSP, back when the enterprise Java ecosystem was being defined.

OpenAI content contributions

AI / LLM
Contributor

Contributed content and examples to the open AI ecosystem, helping practitioners build on top of modern LLM tooling.

Writing & frameworks

Ongoing
Author

I publish essays, frameworks and talks under my own name, patterns for agentic systems and enterprise AI adoption, free to use.

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