Raja Bavani heads delivery for MindTree’s Software Product Engineering (SPE) group in Pune and also plays the role of SPE evangelist. He has more than 20 years of experience in IT industry and has published papers in international conferences in topics related to Code Quality, Distributed Agile, Customer Value Management and Software Estimation. Raja did his masters degree in Electronics from Bharathidasan University and pursued a Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Science and Applications. His Software Product Engineering experience started during early 90s when he was involved in porting a leading ERP product across various UNIX platforms. Later he moved onto products that involved Data Mining and Master Data Management. During early 2000 he worked with some of the niche Independent Software Vendors in Hospitality and Finance domains. At MindTree he worked with project teams that executed SPE services for some of the top vendors of Virtualization Platforms, Business Service Management solutions and Health Care products. His other areas of interests include Global Delivery Model, Requirement Engineering, Software Architecture , Software Reuse, Customer Value Management, Knowledge Management, and IT Outsourcing. He regularly interfaces with educational institutions to offer guest lectures and writes for technical conferences.