Raja Jayaraman

Co-Founder

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India23 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering team growth from 5 to 40 members.
Successfully launched multiple SaaS products in record time.
Expert in software project management and agile methodologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong leadership and product management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Project ManagementAgile MethodologiesProduct ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipJava Enterprise EditionRequirements AnalysisSDLCSOAStruts

About

• Experience in building Saas applications. • Lead and build a team of talented engineers in fast-paced dynamic environment. • Hands-on development experience with strong consumer business acumen, with the ability to architect solutions in tune with customer needs. • Responsible for delivering the products from the development organization and worked in tandem with leaders of the PM & QA functions for overall delivery. • Represented the group in multiple cross-functional management forums regarding technical, product and incident topics. • Owned the planning and execution of product development for successful delivery in a collaborative environment. • Strong process and result orientation. • Experience in customer interfacing and requirements gathering.

Experience

Growfin.ai

Co-Founder

Nov 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 4 mos · Chennai Area, India

Freshworks

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2019 – Jan 2020 · 9 mos · Chennai Area, India

Freshcaller
Heading engineering team for Freshcaller (Freshworks) product
Scaled from 5 to 40 engineering team size in 18 months
Implemented feature-based team methodology that resulted in increase engineering team's velocity of shipping features
Set processes for L2 support, development life cycle starting from requirement gathering to prod release
Automate most of the manual work

Software Project ManagementAgile MethodologiesSDLCCross-functional Team LeadershipSoftware Development

Engineering Manager

Aug 2015 – Apr 2019 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Chennai Area, India

Freshconnect
Launched Freshconnect product in 3 months starting from requirement gathering to production release.
Program managed integrating Freshconnect with two other freshworks products
Developed entire product in war mode with a team of 6 engineers
FreshID
Built a scalable Identity and access management system for Freshworks products and integrated with 7 freshworks products.
Coordinate with all product stakeholders to adapt and integrate FreshID
Lead 5 member engineering team

Software Project ManagementAgile MethodologiesRequirements AnalysisJava Enterprise EditionProduct Management

Frilp (turing research labs)

Co-Founder

Oct 2012 – Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Chennai Area, India

As a founder, I wore multiple hats from across functions
Engineering
Owning the delivery of platform features from engineering organization
Hands on in web and mobile development
Actively involved in product design along with business and product management teams
Setting up process for software development on a highly volatile and dynamic start-up environment
Leading a team of talented engineers; Motivating them to foster innovation and achieve product goals
Product Management
Conceptualize the 1st version of Mobile app
Work with a designer and come up the screens
Successfully built android app
Business Management
Manage relationship with recommended businesses
Let businesses know they have been recommended and try to provide value to recommender in terms of discount/voucher
Finance and Administration
Played the role Controller of Finance
Taking care of office administration