Abhiram Kulkarni is a Software Architect at IBM India Systems Development Lab. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree at PESIT Engineering College, Bangalore. He has over 16 years of experience in Software development. He is passionate about Security, Confidential Computing, Hybrid Cloud and Virtualization technologies. He works with IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE clients to secure their mission critical workloads. He is the author or coauthor of several Patents, and IBM Redbooks.