Raju Karuppannan

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 2 mos experience

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Key Highlights

25 years of experience in engineering leadership.
Expertise in scalable distributed systems and AI/ML.
Proven track record in building high-performing teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on AI/ML and data platforms.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai/mlData ScienceBusiness IntelligenceAgile DevelopmentBig DataDatabase ManagementProduct ManagementRdbmsSoftware Development

Other Skills

Advanced AnalyticsAgile MethodologiesApache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkApplied Machine LearningArtificial IntelligenceBackup/RecoveryBig Data AnalyticsBig Data Platform DevelopmentBlock StorageCloud ComputingCloud DevelopmentConversational AICross-functional Collaboration

About

An experienced engineering leader with around 25 years of experience in world class technology companies, specializing in designing and developing scalable distributed systems. Expertise spans database management systems (DBMS) products and platform development, machine learning (ML), data platforms, data science, Generative AI and Agentic AI. Proven track record in building high performing product and platform engineering teams from the ground up in Bangalore, India. Successfully designed and executed hiring strategies to establish new teams in India. Extensive experience collaborating with geographically distributed teams and managing global development teams, including architects, staff engineers, directors, managers, product and program managers. Brings a strong blend of technical expertise, leadership, strategy, and entrepreneurial skills, thriving in dynamic, “start-up-like” environments.

Experience

Manhattan associates

Head of AI/ML, Data Science and Data Platform Innovation lab

Nov 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

Setup AI/ML innovation lab and built scalable ML platform on GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and deployed in customer production stacks.
Proposed anaytics strategy and provided architecture direction to develop NextGen analytics using GenAI.
Leading Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI) BI product which runs on GCP by using Agile development methods and releasing bi-weekly code drops for about 500+ customers production stacks.
Leding optimization engine development (heuristics mathematical model) for Manhattan Associates supply chain products (TLM, WMS etc.)
Leading engineering teams across geographies, collaborating closely with executives, senior leadership teams, architects, product managers, cross-functional teams and vendor partners to define product roadmaps and releases.

AI/MLData ScienceData PlatformGoogle Cloud PlatformAgile Development

Startup and small product organisations

Vice President and Head of Engineering

Jan 2015 – Nov 2019 · 4 yrs 10 mos

Setup AI/ML and Data Science innovation lab (Startup based in Bangalore, India), built and scaled high performing engineering team, built Data Science Workbench (DSW) and deployed in 25 customers production environments.
Strategised the data requirement and built scalable data platform by using Apache Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, NoSQL and Big Data products eco system.
Architected and built IDE framework using Spark and Airflow to run data applications and Jupyter notebooks. Automated AI workflows and developed tool to monitor model and data drift.
Implemented data aggregation techniques to optimize pipelines, enhance availability, and reduce data lineage.
Worked with top and senior executives for Cloud and AI/ML business strategies for customers, all the stakeholders in product organizations, vendors and translated the business requirements into product features.

AI/MLData ScienceApache HadoopApache SparkBig Data

Oracle

Senior Development Manager

Aug 2005 – Dec 2014 · 9 yrs 4 mos

Built and scaled technically strong Database internal development team in Oracle (Server Technology), Bangalore and delivered many DB product features.
Products managed: Database engine, Storage (ASM), EXADATA cloud services (OCI), EXADATA Storage, Oracle high availability products (RAC, Data Guard, Streams), AQ(Messages), Operating Systems and Networks.
Collaborated very well with product management, cross functional organizations and other product teams to define and execute product roadmaps and release plans.
Primary contact in DB development Organization for Oracle Customers in APAC and JAPAN regions for highly escalated and critical issue and helped to minimize executive level escalations.

Database ManagementProduct ManagementCross-functional Collaboration

Hewlett packard enterprise

Software Technical Lead

Dec 2002 – Aug 2005 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Worked as software tech lead engineer on NonStop SQL/MP RDBMS which runs on highly parallel fault tolerance system (Tandem Himalaya NonStop Server).
Responsible for developing new feature, enhancements and fixing customer reported problems in NonStop SQL/MP RDBMS SQL Parser, query optimizer, query execution engine and NonStop file system.
Primary contact for customer interactions, development, quality, release engineering and documentation teams.

RDBMSSQL ParserQuery OptimizerSoftware Development

Teradata

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2001 – Dec 2002 · 1 yr 11 mos

Worked on Teradata parallel database system development (DB internals) on UNIX-MPRAS (Massively Parallel Processing, Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) architecture.
Worked on designing and developing new product features and enhancements in parser, optimizer, executor, which is called Teradata AMP (Access Module Processor), Bynet and file system.
Also, responsible for addressing customer reported problems (product maintenance) in query compiler and file systems components.

Parallel Database SystemsUNIXQuery CompilerDatabase ManagementSoftware Development