Raghavendra Vooka
Bangalore
Summary
A dynamic professional with extensive experience in engineering leadership, technical management, and strategic partnership development. Known for driving operational excellence, mentoring teams, and successfully leading end-to-end project lifecycles. Adept at collaborating across multiple organizational levels and technology domains.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Engineering Manager
VMware Software
08.2017 - Current
- Senior Engineering Manager with a strong background in software development lifecycle management, program leadership, and full-stack team management
- Proven track record of delivering scalable and available products while fostering process improvements
- Known for leading cross-functional teams and driving innovation in complex environments
- Manage the end-to-end software development lifecycle, driving process enhancements
- Provide program/project management leadership for designing and developing highly scalable products
- Leading a 40-member full-stack engineering team (23 FTE, 17 AWF) covering Micro Services, Angular, Java spring-boot, NodeJS, Kafka, Redis, Drupal, PHP, DevOps, and Kubernetes/TKG
- Oversee the development of diverse applications/products, including ITSM product: A multi-tenancy SaaS and On-prem ticketing system deployed on VMWare Tanzu Kubernetes Grid/Cloud platform
- Headless CMS system/VMware Intranet: Designed and developed a multi-tenant CMS solution for VMWare's business units to enhance digital experiences and empower employees
- Enterprise Search: Connected to 30+ data sources, facilitating VMware information retrieval and collaboration culture.
Senior Engineering Manager
Envestnet Yodlee
08.2016 - 07.2017
- Leading Engineering development team, Delivering scalable, high-performance Web and mobile products/projects on the FinTech domain
- Partner with Customers and the Product Management team to develop business requirements
- Project/Program Management, SDLC, UI, UX, Oversee Analysis, design, development, and testing processes
- Providing Technical Guidance (UI).
Engineering Manager UI
VMware Software
10.2010 - 07.2016
- Over six years of experience at VMWare working in different roles, starting with Application developer, Technical Lead/Architect, and Manager, highly successful in delivering projects on the UI technology track.
- Headed Technical Initiatives: Bringing new technology stack onto the board, Architected and developed generic UI framework, brought Time, Cost, and performance efficiency with massive (50+) reusable UI components/widgets library.
- Built and managed a cohesive & focused Consumer UI Engineering Team. Developed/directed cross-functional project teams for significant initiatives.
- Recognized for exceptional team leadership and direction.
Senior Software Engineer
Thomson Reuters
10.2006 - 05.2010
Web developer
Monster India
06.2004 - 03.2006
Education
Master of Information Technology (M.Sc. IT) -
Kevempu University
Bachelor of Education (Mathematics and English) -
S.V University
Skills
- JQuery/JavaScript/Angular/React
- HTML/CSS
- NodeJS
- Micro Service
- DevOps
- Kubernetes
- Engineering Leader/Management
- Technical Leadership & UI Leader
- Technical Program Management
- Product Management
- Testing & Automation
- Agile/Scrum Implementations
- Strategic Planning & Execution
- Stakeholder Management
- People Management & Team Building
- Vendor Management
- DevOps & CI/CD Implementation
- Cross Team Collaboration
- Technology Agnostic
- SaaS
- UX
- Forward-Thinking Mindset
- Technology Integration
- Business Development
- Strategic Planning
- Project Oversight
- Decision-Making Skills
- Training and Mentoring
- Persuasive Communication Style
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Design Evaluations
- Vendor Sourcing
- Performance Updates
- Project Management
- Architecture
- Budget Coordination
- Quality Assurance Controls
- Performance Testing
Websites
Honors Awards
- Received “At the Best Awards” (nearly six times for exceptional contributions.) @ VMware
- UI/UX Champion of the year – @ VMware Customer Experience
- Outstanding Performers award. @ Thomson Reuters
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Quote
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson
Timeline
Senior Engineering Manager
VMware Software
08.2017 - Current
Senior Engineering Manager
Envestnet Yodlee
08.2016 - 07.2017
Engineering Manager UI
VMware Software
10.2010 - 07.2016
Senior Software Engineer
Thomson Reuters
10.2006 - 05.2010
Web developer
Monster India
06.2004 - 03.2006
Master of Information Technology (M.Sc. IT) -
Kevempu University
Bachelor of Education (Mathematics and English) -
S.V University
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