Vikas is a seasoned executive, technologist and entrepreneur with 25+ years of international experience. Vikas is interested in human experience and specifically, in creating safe, fair and trusted experiences; whether it be in context of human-human; human-org; human-machine, machine-machine; human environment. He focuses on decentralized, distributed & personal models (identity, data, compute, intelligence) that lead to formation of inferred networks based on Trust, named Trust Fabric. Vikas is the founder of WOPLLI that is a next generation experiences company, making our experiences [as we Work, Play, Learn, Live] safe, fair, trusted.
Vikas is also the founder of Navandine, which is the next generation hospitality experiences company. Previously, Vikas worked for 20+ years for various firms, with 14+ years at Microsoft (2006-2020), where he helped create, form and grow service & markets for Office 365 and cloud, from within engineering division. In prior companies (Microline, CyberTech, CIBER and INS (now British Telecom)); Vikas worked in system integration space enhancing the value and implementation of digital systems and framework for many clients across various verticals; with focus on networking and messaging. He helped pioneer Application Service Provider (ASP) service in early 2000s for one of his employers; a service delivered from remote datacenters which was about 5 years prior to the term ‘cloud’ being recognized.
Vikas is a contributor to standards, where he contributes to many projects within Linux Foundation and International web level & is the chair of IEEE IC program on Cyber Security for Next Generation Connectivity Systems along with contributing to various IEEE standards workgroups. Vikas has previously co-authored the chapter on Robotics in space in the book ‘Survival in Space’.