Raghu varma Sagiraju

VP of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India17 yrs 2 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led the Payments Co-Pilot initiative at Microsoft.
  • Built a modern AR Warehouse, reducing processing time significantly.
  • Established an AI review process for ethical AI development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Data Engineering expert with a strong focus on AI and cloud technologies.

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Core Skills

Generative AiProject ManagementEtlBig DataData Quality AnalysisInformaticaFull Stack Development

Other Skills

AI review processASP.NETAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementArchitectural DesignAzureAzure Bot ServiceAzure Data FactoryAzure StackAzure event GridAzure tech stackBuild & ReleaseBusiness AnalysisBusiness IntelligenceBusiness Objects

About

Engineering Manager with a passion for innovation in the field of Data, backend services, Generative AI with 17 years of excellence in building and modernizing Applications, Building commerce organization, big data and insights platforms with excellent track record of achieving & exceeding work-based challenges & goals. Strong advocate in inducing the culture of fast-paced innovation, adopting a fail-fast approach to seize the right opportunities at the right time. Experienced in building and leading Inclusive, high-performing teams that are self-driven, globally distributed, and focused on shared goals. Collaboration is at the heart of my approach. Additionally, I led the Responsible AI charter at the organizational level to ensure ethical development of AI/ML services

Experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Enterprise Commerse | Payments & Credit Services Data Platform

Promoted

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs

  • Spearheaded Payments Co-Pilot initiative, driving ideation, bootstrapping, and standardization of the product.
  • Led the teams responsible for modernizing the world's largest Account Receivable data platform which handles crucial executive reporting of ~$45 billion in AR.
  • Built the team and developed the Payments Data Platform & Insights from the ground up, using a modern Azure tech stack that is crucial for tracking performance metrics of providers, services, and initiatives, helping to mitigate the collateral damage caused by prevalent fraud.
  • In Partnership with engineering, product owners, business stakeholders and leadership, created a sustainable product roadmap.
  • Scaled the team from 0 to 7 FTEs and managed 20 vendors. Owned the product roadmap, architectural reviews, and delivered successful sprints.
  • Established an AI review process to ensure ethical development of Generative AI solutions across the org responsibly.
  • Streamlined operations by modernizing decades old pipelines for the Credit Services Data Platform, handling massive SOX-controlled Account Receivables data.
  • Collaborated with product owners, engineers, and stakeholders to plan and deliver projects while resolving roadblocks efficiently. Inspired and coached a high-performing team of 12 FTEs and 20 vendors, fostering their growth through mentorship and career development opportunities.
  • Navigated through organizational changes and economic uncertainties, providing clear direction and support to the team during challenging times.
  • Actively recruited top talent both internally and externally, building a skilled and diverse team through strong networking skills.
Stakeholder ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipArchitectural DesignGenerative AIAzure Data FactoryProject Management+1

Senior Software Engineer, Credit Services

Promoted

Sep 2019Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Spearheaded the development of a Modern AR Warehouse on Azure Stack (IaaS to PaaS migration). Ensured 100% SOX compliance of the application through rigorous reviews both internal & external audits.
  • Increased project velocity as Scrum Master, effectively managing the backlog and leading the team.
  • Architected the migration from a sequential ETL flow to an entity-based approach using PaaS. This reduced processing time from 12 hours to under 1 hour, significantly impacting AR decision-making, especially during month-end close.
  • Leveraged big data and cloud technologies like Azure Data Factory, Databricks (Spark SQL, Python), and Data Lake.
  • Owned requirements gathering, problem-solving, and work prioritization: Collaborated with product owners and business teams to ensure successful project delivery.
  • Managed the Build & Release process for all team projects, ensuring smooth deployments.
Azure Data FactoryETLScrum MasterPaaSBig Data

Software Engineer II, Treasury

Jan 2017Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Mentored the team to deliver high visible projects and mitigate the issues in a time bound manner for a smoother execution and timely delivery of the project.
  • Handled Code reviews, Build & Releases, Sox Audits, Oversee vendor's, DRI rotation.
  • As a scrum master created detailed product backlog, maintain n+3 sprints, planning, conduct daily scrum meeting & report the status of overall project to leadership Team.
  • Continuously improve live site by conducting review and create a repair items.
Code ReviewsScrum MasterBuild & ReleaseSox Audits

Synechron

Lead Technology - Client Facing

May 2014Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

  • Led technology development for the BCE data mart (Morgan Stanley, Consultant via Synechron).
  • This data mart manages exchange/vendor fees and client charges, identifying cost-saving opportunities and optimizing client negotiations.
  • Built and automated ETL processes (Informatica) to extract, transform, and reconcile high-volume data across various sources.
  • Performed data quality analysis, resolved time-sensitive issues, and ensured system performance (databases, Informatica).
  • Onboarded new asset classes and automated data archiving for efficient reporting.
ETLData Quality AnalysisInformatica

J.p. morgan

2 roles

Sr Informatica Developer Associate

Feb 2013May 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Role: Associate Developer
  • Project: DAC (Data Acquisition and Control)
  • Description: It is a typical financial Dataware housing project deals with the transactional and positional data coming from different suppliers and different sources (financial systems). It acts as a bridge between the upstream sources (suppliers) and downstream consumer (different consumer applications).
  • Responsibilities:
  • Designed and implemented Reconciliations at different granularity.
  • Worked solely on Framework re-engineering project at same time ensuring nothing is breaking in the process.
  • Partnering with Plan, Operations and converting the Business requirements to functional and technical specifications
  • Involved in optimising the ETL-Process by identifying the bottlenecks and provided appropriate solutions for the same.
  • Worked as Business analysts for few tasks and delivered them on time.
  • Lead the entire framework of Cash Securities, MRI, DPS, Reconciliation and F&O.
  • Involved in finding out the Issues at Business Process and in the code level and suggesting the appropriate fix where ever is needed.
  • Involved in attending the project meetings, requirement gathering, managing and guiding the team to meet the deadlines on time and preparing monthly and annual metrics of the team .
  • Involved in redesigning of process by fixing the issues that are existing and automation of process where ever it is possible.
  • Involved in on boarding/Off boarding the supplies into/from the system.
  • Played tech lead role and handled 5 people under me.
  • Created Business Objects web intelligent Reports using universe on need basis.
  • Environment: Informatica 8.6.1/9.1.0,Business Objects Reporting, Oracle 11g,UNIX,HP QC,Autosys,Sql/PL/Sql,Oracle Web sphere .Ear File Deployments,qlikview
InformaticaBusiness ObjectsSQL

Sr Informatica Developer Professional

Apr 2011Jan 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

Wipro

Project Engineer

Jan 2010Mar 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Western Power (Australia)
  • It mainly deals with the distribution and transmission systems of Western Power. This project will implement the Dataware House Solution that enables the end user to take future decisions to manage the assets of the organization and to know the utilization of organization assets in an effective manner. The design of the system is to integrate various OLTP systems and keep it in a single warehouse, for the reporting needs.
  • Involved in understanding the requirements and designing the data model using power designer
  • Developed the strategies like CDC (Change Data Capture), Auditing, Recovery Strategy etc.
  • Involved in preparing the summary tables to meet reporting requirements efficiently.
  • Prepared standard document and guide the team members to meet the deliverables in time.
  • Developed complex mappings .created workflow connections, session parameter files etc.
  • Involved in movement of code from development to SIT and from SIT to UAT and prepared the deployment document for UAT.
  • Involved in developing of stored procedure for CDC, Auditing etc.
Data WarehousingStored ProceduresSQL

Sreeven infocom limited

Software Engineer

Sep 2008Dec 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • AP Civil Supplies Department, India.
  • Project: Beneficiary Management System
  • Developed a web-based system for the Andhra Pradesh government to manage ration card distribution. This system tracks beneficiary data, including income eligibility and biometrics (like iris scans), to ensure proper allocation of rations. Designed for scalability, it has a central server that connects to client applications in over 100 centers. The system also implements different user roles for efficient administration and monitoring, allowing authorized personnel to track operations and generate reports.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Involved in full stack development of windows application End-End.
  • Developed User controls such as Image cropper and Image Optimization tools, internet connectivity check module, application version check module etc.
  • Worked on ODAC (Oracle Data Access Components) Tools & wrote complex dynamic stored procedures Pl/SQL in oracle 11g.
  • Developed web-based reports in asp.net.
Full Stack DevelopmentASP.NETOracle

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

BTech - Bachelor of Technology — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2008

Excel Junior College

Intermediate MPC

Jan 2002Jan 2004

Raasi High School

SSC — SSC

Jan 1990Jan 2002

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