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

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

  1. 7,020,654 Methods and apparatus for indexing content
  2. 7,007,088 Method and apparatus for providing an E-business audit trail in a distributed computing system
  3. 6,959,340 Platform independent business to business messenger in an enterprise computer system
  4. 6,753,889 Platform independent business to business messenger adapter generation tool
  5. 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:

He has also been a contributer to the following standards:

Interviews

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

Papers

Blogs