Arun Ganapathi is a software engineering leader with 18+ years of experience architecting cloud-native, high-availability systems and large-scale IAM platforms. He serves as Senior Manager of Software Development at Oracle USA, leading OPERA Cloud Identity Management a globally distributed, multi-tenant IAM solution supporting thousands of hospitality enterprises worldwide.
His work spans cloud architecture, microservices, security, and federated identity systems. He has driven major IAM transformations delivering 99.9% uptime, 50% faster incident response through observability modernization, and significant gains in onboarding and high-load performance.
At Oracle, Arun has earned honors including the Architects Choice Award, R&D Hall of Fame Award, and Hospitality Pineapple Award for contributions to cloud-native IAM, federated identity, and high-availability SaaS architectures.
He is certified as an Oracle Gen AI Professional, OCI Architect, and Professional Scrum Master, with expertise in OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML 2.0, RBAC, and zero-downtime deployments.