Dinesh Subhraveti

Dinesh Subhraveti is an inventor of container virtualization, currently serving as the cofounder and CTO of AppOrbit. As a part of his Ph.D. at Columbia University, Dinesh developed the core principles behind the container abstraction, a technology that profoundly impacts the way software is developed and deployed. Applying his early research, he drove industry’s first Linux Containers product for enterprise applications at Meiosys, the company behind the LXC project that IBM acquired in 2005. Over the years, Dinesh’s work is widely cited and has deeply influenced the industry and academia. He also authored numerous patents and papers in the areas of virtualization, storage and operating systems.