Ameya Ashok Soparkar
Technology Business Leader ARUP
Ameya Soparkar is a Data Center Mission Critical Infrastructure specialist. A Mechanical Engineer by education he has around 20 years of industry experience in design, implementation, commissioning and management.
He has held positions as Mission Critical Market Leader for Affiliated Engineers Inc., Director of Engineering at Rittal Inc. and Global Engineering Lead for HPE Data Center Facilities. He has had extensive international working experience and has designed and delivered over 120 data center projects in 35 countries across 5 continents. He worked in Asia for 5 years as an expatriate manager and established the Engineering Center of Excellence for HPE in India and China. This department was responsible for delivering data center design and implementation projects worldwide. He also was as the program manager and helped lead the global modular data center portfolio for HPE.
Expert in energy modeling, free cooling and TCO calculation, he led the development of the new version release of TRACE 700 that enhanced the energy modeling capability and accuracy of the software, and added TGG metrics, PUE and WUE to the calculation result.
He is a member of TGG Liquid Cooling workgroup and currently working with NREL and DOE on a fuel cell and green energy powered data center.
Seminars
- Comparing how owners balance trusted external consultants with internal teams to understand where in house capability adds the most value versus where outside expertise is relied upon
- Clarifying the benefits and trade offs of different engagement models by examining how others decide what stays inside their “trusted bubble” and what is outsourced
- Optimizing collaboration with contractors and consultants by learning how peer organizations structure responsibilities to reduce friction and improve delivery confidence
