Subhathra Srinivasaraghavan

Subhathra Srinivasaraghavan is Vice President of the IBM India Systems Development Lab (ISDL), IBM’s largest infrastructure development centre globally. She leads engineering teams across IBM’s infrastructure portfolio, including IBM Z mainframes, power systems, storage, cloud, and technology lifecycle services.

With more than 25 years at IBM, she has overseen the expansion of ISDL’s role from a regional engineering centre to a key development hub with responsibilities spanning hardware and software. Teams under her leadership contribute to processor and chip design, firmware, operating systems, virtualisation technologies, AI infrastructure, and enterprise software that support IBM’s global infrastructure products.

As enterprises increasingly deploy AI in production environments, her focus has been on the infrastructure required to run AI workloads reliably and securely, particularly in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, and the public sector. Her work includes efforts to integrate AI capabilities into enterprise systems while addressing requirements around performance, security, governance, and data residency.

She is also involved in industry and academic collaborations aimed at developing engineering talent and strengthening India’s contribution to global technology development.