Kartik Subbarao is an independent consultant with over 20 years of experience. His career includes over 16 years of engineering and technical leadership positions at Hewlett-Packard in R&D, Consulting and IT. He was the founding Global Lead for HP's Open Source and Linux Profession, a community of practice for thousands of technologists across the company. Kartik has a BSEE from Princeton University and an MSEE from Stanford University. He is keenly interested in the subjects and objects at the consilience of technology and philosophy.