Farrukh Najmi - Founder and Chief Architect
Farrukh Najmi - Founder and Chief Architect
Email: farrukh(@)wellfleetsoftware.com
Farrukh founded Wellfleet Software in 2006. He has decades of experience in:
- Generating innovative ideas
- Codifying ideas into open standards
- Creating adoption of the standard by building vibrant open source software communities
- Monetizing open source projects into commercial products
- Helping customers successfully deploy solutions based on these open source and commercial software.
Present Roles
- Founder and Chief Architect, Wellfleet Software Corporation, August 2006 - to-date
- Principal author and editor, http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=12049)">OASIS ebXML Registry standard (ISO 15000 part 3-4), June 2000 - to-date
- Co-chair, OASIS ebXML Registry Semantic Content Management SC, January 2004 - to-date
- Member, OASIS Search Web Services TC October 2007 - to-date
- Member, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)ebXML RegRep SWG
- Member, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Catalog 2.1 RWG August 2007 - to-date
- Member, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) OWS 5 RWG August 2007 - to-date
- Member, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Catalog ebRIM RWG July 2007 - to-date
- Co-founder, Steering Committee Member, freebXML.org open source project, February 2002 - to-date
- Founder, Lead Architect, freebXML Registry open source project, June 2000 - to-date
- Specification Lead, Java API for XML Registries (JSR 93), January 2000 - August 2006
Past Roles
- Principal Architect, Sun Service Registry product, Sun Microsystems, January 2004 - July 2006
- XML Standards Architect, Sun Microsystems, June 2000 - July 2006
- Co-chair, OASIS eGovernment ebXML Registry SC, February 2005 - 2007
- Staff Engineer, Java Messaging Service Reference Implementation, Sun Microsystems, February 1999 - June 2000
- Chief Technologist, Hewlett Packard Clinical Information Systems Division, January 1998 - February 1999
Patents
- 7,020,654 Methods and apparatus for indexing content
- 7,007,088 Method and apparatus for providing an E-business audit trail in a distributed computing system
- 6,959,340 Platform independent business to business messenger in an enterprise computer system
- 6,753,889 Platform independent business to business messenger adapter generation tool
- 6,687,848 Techniques for preventing information loss in a business to business message in an enterprise computer system
Standards
Farrukh has played a leadership role in, and has been an active contributor to the creation of the following standards:
- OASIS ebXML RegRep Profile for Web Ontology (OWL) 2.0 (draft)
- Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Spatio-temporal Profile of ebXML RegRep (draft)
- Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) ebRIM Profile of CSW
- http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=12049)">OASIS ebXML Registry standard (ISO 15000 part 3,4)
- Java API for XML Registries (JSR 93)
He has also been a contributer to the following standards:
- OASIS Web Service Remote Portlets
- OASIS ebXML Messaging
- W3C RDF Query Language
Interviews
- Interview by CIO Magazine on "Open Source and the Enterprise Committer" - January 2007
- Interview on OASIS ebXML Registry standard - April 2006
Conference Presentations
- OASIS ebXML Registry Webinar, September 2005 - [pdf][audio]
- XML Europe 2004 Conference, Amsterdam - Web Content Management Using OASIS ebXML Registry [ppt]
- XML 2003 Conference, Philadelphia - [ppt]
- XML Europe 2003 Conference, London - An Open Source Implementation of OASIS ebXML Registry Standard [ppt]
- eGovernment Conference Conference 2002, Washington DC- [ppt]
- Hong Kong University, eBusiness Conference 2002 - Keynote
- Numerous Java One Conferences