Siva currently leads development of Oracle Spatial and Graph technologies at Oracle. And Oracle spatial database server is used across a wide range of applications: from traditional GIS/LIS type applications to business geographic applications providing location based services.
He regularly works with many national agencies (US Census, Ordnance Survey of UK, Dutch Cadaster, NGA, EPA, USDA, NOAA, Survey of India, etc.) to help them define the architecture for their spatial data systems and help them guide in their implementation of spatial data platform. He actively participates in the OGC standards process, reviewing and providing feedback on the early drafts of relevant standards. He also participates on the program committees of several international conference to serve the broader communities of spatial databases, Geographic Information Science and spatial computing.
He is also a member of the National Geo-Spatial Advisory Committee (NGAC). NGAC’s charter is to advice the US government and its many stakeholders to help inform and improve policy and geospatial programs that are critical to achieving and maintaining access to useful geospatial information and resources through a national spatial data infrastructure.
