Pethuru Raj, PhD, works as a chief architect at Reliance Jio Platforms Ltd. (JPL) in Bangalore. Previously, he worked as a cloud architect in the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), an enterprise architect in Wipro consulting services (WCS), and a software architect in Robert Bosch Corporate Research (CR). In total, he has gained more than 22 years of IT industry experience and 8 years of research experience. He finished his CSIR-sponsored Ph.D. degree at Anna University, Chennai, and continued with UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Thereafter, he was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities.