RAJA VOBUGARI
Software Engineering
Bangalore
Summary
Seasoned, results-driven senior engineering thought leader with a proven track record in developing secure, scalable and fault-tolerant services and systems in Cloud. Known for problem solving, thought-leadership and entrepreneurial spirit to help enable significant product growth. Adept at building sizable organizations, retaining industry’s top talent. Seeking to leverage 22+ years of progressive software engineering experience to contribute effectively and deliver impactful results.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Director of Engineering / VMWare EUC BLR Site Lead
VMWare (Horizon Cloud Services), Bangalore
Bangalore
04.2020 - Current
- Responsible for building highly scalable Horizon Cloud Service (Development and DevOps) to leverage optimal tech stack including Java microservices, Kafka, Azure services, Kubernetes, Docker and Redis
- Built and led world-class team of 130+ engineers, managers, directors, and senior technologists to build next generation Desktop-As-A-Service (DaaS) platform in cloud to support VDI service for multiple hypervisors (Azure, AWS, vSphere, GCP)
- Built top talent in Bangalore site for End User Computing division and grew organization from 25 to 130 within 18 months with top talent
- Built GenAI based Horizon cloud knowledge system leveraging openAI stack dramatically simplifying overall support costs.
* Responsible for leading, collaborating and influencing Engineering and Product Management leadership for various Horizon VDI initiatives to achieve $1BN ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) - Provide site leadership for End User Computing Bangalore division and drove DEI, lateral hiring, and campus recruitment initiatives along with building innovative and product development culture in End-User Computing organization within VMWare
- Challenged teams on right architecture and technology choices and advocate for best practices on SaaS development, system design and platform mindset
- Instrumental in driving diversity rates of HCS organization from 25% to 33% while still maintaining high bar on hiring and promotions
- Spearheaded formation of data analytics and dash-boarding team and platform to enable metrics, telemetry, and Data collection pipelines to ensure valuable insights were derived
- Transformed DevOps posture by bringing in modern tools and frameworks such as terraform, Argo CD, Kubernetes/Docker to improve continuous delivery
- Also ensured secured, reliable, and efficient CI pipelines are built to improve engineering productivity
- Improved Operational excellence and supportability of product by reducing MTTRs to order of ~20 minutes from 2.5 hours, by implementing effective observability F/W, processes, and tooling
- Reduced incoming P0 escalations to 15 per quarter down from 85 over 6 quarters by providing architectural enhancements, proactive monitoring and resilience features baked into product
- Set budgets for engineering tasks, tailoring financial limitations to business goals and optimized return on investment (ROI) for completed deliverables
Director, Engineering | Senior Architect
Altisource Labs
Boston
04.2014 - 04.2020
- Engineering and Product Management team of 60+ reports (40+ direct + 20 matrixed/indirect) - Coordination with executive management on product management – Architectural, Technology and Engineering Leadership - Leveraging agile methodologies – Hiring & Talent Management
- Orchestrated hands-on engineering efforts leveraging modern, distributed SaaS technology stack using java, micro-services (leveraging drop wizard and spring boot), RESTApi, ELK, Kafka, AngularJS, Node.js, RabbitMQ, MongoDB and MySQL, as well as Data-hub initiatives
- Piloted performance & scale engineering efforts to enable system that can handle extremely high-volume (order of 100s of millions of records/day) transactions
- Led product management efforts to collect requirements from customers and set roadmaps and plans for NoteXchange organization
- Maintained track record of developing high quality products on-time with reliable design yielding superior performance, scalability, and resiliency of distributed SaaS services in AWS Cloud
- Directed the development efforts for classification pipeline that leverages DS/ML algorithms
- Demonstrated widespread technical expertise in SaaS/PaaS, Microservices, OOP/OOD, Distributed Systems, Data engineering, Machine learning / AI, Scalability and Security
- Led Architectural efforts, established design & coding standards for the next generation of document management systems
- Took instrumental role in building high-performance distributed reporting system leveraging AngularJS, backed by Cassandra and Spark
- Brought in top-notch engineering talent and provided overall mentorship to team of software engineers, engineering managers across US and India
- Mentored high-performance engineering teams with effective development and employee engagement strategies across responsible product line
- Fostered 60+ (40+ direct + 20 indirect) member, cross-functional org comprising managers, Engineers, PMs, UX, scrum masters, QA, DevOps, support to deliver mortgage origination and trading platform
- Interfaced with executive management, SMEs, product management, product marketing and sales, to prioritise product requirements and features for origination platform services products
- Oversaw growth of core platform engineering and architecture group from 4 to 30 people which included managers, engineers, architects spread across multiple locations in US and India
Principle Engineer / Architect / Senior Software Engineer
EMC
Hopkinton
08.1999 - 03.2014
- Product Development – Global Team Collaboration - Architectural and Engineering Leadership - Hiring & Talent Management
- Rose through software engineering, and architectural leadership roles by taking on strategic initiatives in product development, hiring, and software engineering
- Managed product deliverables in coordination with global teams, driving architecture and development efforts to build hybrid platforms
- Spearheaded development and feature deliverables of EMC’s hybrid cloud platform, EMC’s Elastic Cloud Storage (then known as ViPR) controller and object store infrastructure that interfaces and integrates with EMC and various third-party storage systems to perform discover and provisioning
- Designed distributed coordinator framework service using open-source software such as Zookeeper, curator and spring framework backed by Cassandra
- Architected development of ViPR scale-out Metering and Monitoring subsystems backed by MongoDB to retrieve multi- tenant Metering Usage Metrics and alerts across File, Block, and Object storage services
- Developed Data models for ViPR File Controller infrastructure in Cassandra for NFS and CIFS protocol adapters for various File Arrays
- Acted as Product Development Owner for VNX storage services, leading team in design and development of storage features in EMC AppSync
- Designed and developed features such as VNX snapshots and clones using Java
- Directed development efforts to add replication support in AppSync for various VMWare device types, RDM, Virtual Disks and VMDK
- Executed as lead developer in various development groups within replication management product leveraging Java/J2EE, XML, Servlets, JSP, Oracle, UDB, LVM, Perl5
- Played crucial role in talent management and hiring decisions
Education
Master of Business Administration -
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
Amherst, MA 09.2011 - 06.2013
Master of Science - Computer Science
UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT
Bridgeport, CT. 01.1997 - 12.1998
BTech - Electronics and Comms
Sri Krishnadevaraya University
04.2001 - 04.1996
Skills
Distributed Systems & Web Stack : Microservices, RESTApi, AngularJS, XML, JSON, Jetty, TomcatVirtualization / Storage Tools : VMware VCenter, ESX, VNX, VMAX, DATA ONTAP (NetApp)Storage Protocols : NFS and CIFS/SMBDatabases/Data stores : MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, Oracle, SQL ServerSearch Engines : Elastic SearchSecurity : Oauth 20, JWT, SAMLOpen-Source Frameworks : Spring boot, drop wizard, Hadoop, Zookeeper, Hibernate, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SparkDevOps Tooling : Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, terraformCloud Platforms / Technologies : Amazon AWS, VCS, ATMOS, ViPR, OpenStackMachine Learning / Data Science : R, Python
Timeline
Director of Engineering / VMWare EUC BLR Site Lead
VMWare (Horizon Cloud Services), Bangalore
04.2020 - Current
Director, Engineering | Senior Architect
Altisource Labs
04.2014 - 04.2020
Master of Business Administration -
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
09.2011 - 06.2013
BTech - Electronics and Comms
Sri Krishnadevaraya University
04.2001 - 04.1996
Principle Engineer / Architect / Senior Software Engineer
EMC
08.1999 - 03.2014
Master of Science - Computer Science
UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT
01.1997 - 12.1998