Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Additional Information
Accomplishments
Affiliations
Timeline
Talks and Publications
Janardan Revuru

Janardan Revuru

Engineering | Leading Technology Shift | AI Evangelist
Bengaluru,KA
If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
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Summary

I currently play the role of Director of Engineering. Have 27+ years of experience is in building products for Enterprise customers in technology domains of networking, storage and servers. Proven track record of building teams from the ground up and lead multiple engineering teams. Experience in leading transformations across business unit - technology, product, process and people.

Technical experience is in developing frontend/web technologies and Masters in Data Science and Machine Learning. Leading modernization at Dell including Agile transformation and Gen AI.

In 17 years as a manager, I have 6+ years of experience managing managers and senior architects. Flexible to adapt management style to fit startup and large enterprises.

As the founder of tech and design communities, which are a platform for thousands of techies to learn, collaborate and grow. JavaScript Meetup founded is #6 globally in the area of web technologies. Speaker, Author and strategist for conferences and publications. Recognized by Google, Microsoft and Huawei for web community contributions.

Overview

28
28

Years of professional experience

20
20

Years as Engineering leader

4
4

Certificatiions

Work History

Director of Engineering

Dell Technologies
8 2021 - Current

Responsible for delivering projects strategic to Dell Technologies, working with cross functional teams and different Business Units of Engineering. As site leader in India, I am responsible to create site strategy working with executives.

- Delivering best-in-class user experience and APIs for Data Protection on-prem, cloud and SaaS platforms
- Leading modernization at Dell technologies - Gen AI and Agile transformation.
- Led teams that integrate secondary storage products to Dell strategic initiatives such as Apex (as-a-Service) offering.
- Driving initiatives like Engineering Manager Community of Practice, Learning community and Innovation across multiple sites, that built a culture of learning and highly engaged employees.

Senior Engineering Manager

Dell Technologies
12.2016 - 07.2021

Built a team from ground up, to deliver new product capabilities. Using new technologies that help teams deliver bug free software faster and with low maintenance. Give technical oversight on key design and architectural decisions.

- Started a small GUI team of 4 members and grew to a 80 member team, expanding to System Management and Security.

- Directed team to modernize and simplify product using design thinking and latest web technologies. Participate in architecture reviews of GUI, System Management, Supportability, Telemetry and customer issue troubleshooting.

- Executed on site strategy to staff and implement complex features from Bangalore.

Engineering Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
03.2011 - 12.2016

Responsible for managing three teams who work on manageability of clustering product that provides High Availability to Business Critical Applications. Transform the team into high-performing team with higher employee engagement. Technical oversight for a strategic product HP OneView, that is built on new software stack.

- Coordinated between product management, engineering, customer support for clustering and Disaster Recovery of mission critical applications on HPUX.

- Technically supervised the architecture and implementation of multi cluster manager using modern technologies. This reduced overall operational cost for the customers.

- Provided management oversight for the Disaster Recovery project, which included close working with EMC storage partner. Built best-in-class DR solution for short and long distance clusters.

Engineering Manager

Avaya (Nortel data division)
12.2007 - 02.2011

Responsible for customer support in EMEA region and meet the service level agreements. Deliver customer patches that include minimal downtime of customer network. Managed a team of 10 engineers with core networking capabilities.

Engineering Manager

Motorola
08.2005 - 11.2007

Responsible for a team of Systems Engineers who write and refine requirements for GSM 2G Network management software. The challenge was to work with a team of engineers more experienced than me. Improve the process to reduce number of requirement bugs, which are expensive in software development.

Technical Architect / Manager

Tasman Networks
11.2003 - 08.2005

Responsible to build an Element Manager in C, that resides inside the router using low system resources. Develop in 9 months, including hiring a new team in Bangalore. Played the dual role of Technical Architect and Manager. Built proof-of-concept using existing software stack and fresh UI working with design team.

Technical Leader

Siemens Technology India
05.2001 - 01.2003

As a Technical lead, responsible for requirements gathering to delivery of security features – Lawful Interception and Insert Subscriber Data in GSM/GPRS Mobile Data Networks.

Software Engineer

Amber Networks (USA)
04.2000 - 03.2001

Development of management software based on Java EE for Edge Routers. Played role of frontend developer. Worked with backend architect, to bring consistency across product and better customer experience.

Software Engineer

Wipro
11.1996 - 02.2000

Worked on development and testing of GUI for Cisco network provisioning products. Started hobby projects in Web development, that remained interest area for entire career.

Education

Master of Science - Data Science And Machine Learning

BITS Pilani, Pilani
06.2022 - 07.2024

Project in Sustainable AI - how small generative models can be as efficient as larger models

B.E - Computer Science

Gulbarga University, Karnataka
06.1992 - 07.1996

MBA - Marketing

I.G.N.O.U., India
05.2004 - 06.2010

Skills

Building engineering teams

Certification

Project Management Professional

Additional Information

  • Co-founder | JavaScript Meetup, Estd. 2015

Ranked #6 worldwide on meetup.com for JavaScript Frameworks. Started this community 6 years back. 50+ meetups and 2 bootcamps conducted. Opportunity to 30+ first time speakers to share knowledge. Active developers on several platforms - Discord, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter.

  • Founder | humAns of deZign (2021-2022)

A design community of newbies and experienced professional on Discord. Meetups / Coffee Chats conducted.

  • Founder | Geeky Grads 4.0, Estd 2024

A community for students interested in computers. Make graduates ready for Tech 4.0 by making them employable. This is a community of Industry veterans who buiild skill required for industry, but not taught in colleges.

Accomplishments

  • Game Changer award from SVP for leading Agile transformation
  • Rockstar Manager award (thrice in a row) from Vice Chairman at Dell Technologies for exceptional employee engagement scores
  • Masters from BITS Pilani in Data Science and Machine Learning
  • Author of 12-part series on JavaScript ES6 features in Open Source India Magazine
  • Co-founder of Web developer community JavaScript Meetup with 13K members across 10 countries
  • Recognized as Web Community Leader by Microsoft, Google and Huawei for promoting web standards

Affiliations

  • Technical Director Application Library Engineering Group | Huawei
  • Advisor | Open Source India Conference (since 2008)
  • Member | Project Management Institute (since 2009)
  • Member | Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)
  • Member | Interaction Design Foundation (2022-23)

Timeline

BITS Pilani - Master of Science, Data Science And Machine Learning
06.2022 - 07.2024
Senior Engineering Manager - Dell Technologies
12.2016 - 07.2021
Engineering Manager - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
03.2011 - 12.2016
Engineering Manager - Avaya (Nortel data division)
12.2007 - 02.2011
Engineering Manager - Motorola
08.2005 - 11.2007
I.G.N.O.U. - MBA, Marketing
05.2004 - 06.2010
Technical Architect / Manager - Tasman Networks
11.2003 - 08.2005
Technical Leader - Siemens Technology India
05.2001 - 01.2003
Software Engineer - Amber Networks (USA)
04.2000 - 03.2001
Software Engineer - Wipro
11.1996 - 02.2000
Gulbarga University - B.E, Computer Science
06.1992 - 07.1996
Director of Engineering - Dell Technologies
8 2021 - Current

Talks and Publications

Talks

2010 - till date

  • Paper publications and talks on leadership and Agile methodology
  • PM Essence magazine
  • PMPC Conference
  • Scrum Bangalore

2012 - till date

  • Talks on Semantic Web, Internet of Things, Bluetooth LE and Machine Learning using Tensorflow.js
  • jQuery Conference
  • Electronics Rocks conference
  • Open Source India conference

Publications

  • Quoted in magazines and newspaper as expert in technology areas of web and IoT
  • https://careers.electronicsforu.com/career-guidance/telecom- immense-employment-potential/
  • Author of series "JavaScript - The News parts" covering ES6 features
  • Many other articles published https://opensourceforu.com/author/janardan-revuru/
Janardan RevuruEngineering | Leading Technology Shift | AI Evangelist