Laxmi N Rayapudi — CEO
Product management, business strategy and engineering leadership spread across Qualcomm automotive, ie-iot and mobile/compute business units. • Rich product management experience leading large scale accounts, P&L responsibility, and driving new biz strategy across various Automotive segments • 25 years of experience leading Android, BSP/Core Drivers, Multimedia, and Modem technology teams across wide range of Qualcomm Snapdragon MSMs, MDMs, IoT, and Compute products. • Instrumental in enabling customers, helping the organization transition from 2G -> 3G -> 4G to most recently to 5G. Have been serving the OEM community (300+ licensees), platform ecosystem, and the ISV community helping the organizations transform to building more intelligent man-machine devices, enabling them to achieve faster TTM with minimal recurring costs • Deep expertise in software scalability & product leverage to bootstrap adjacent market opportunities across consumer IoT, industrial IoT & Compute business units • 15+ years of experience collaborating with customers spread across the globe, helping them align their product strategies & roadmap to Qualcomm portfolio, and driving ~1100 product launches per year. • Experience managing multi-million $ opex/capex spend, multiple ODC engagements for cost & operational efficiency, driving various software monetization opportunities & partner engagements (Google, ISVs, SPs, ODMs/ODCs), and continued focus on automation to lower the execution cost by ~25%. Excellent organizational leadership & impactful contributions to various functional areas spawning across HR, Pay, Operations, Benefits, Rewards & Recognition impacting 1000’s of engineers. • Participated in several executive panel meetings on various subjects (evolution of IoT, technology transition leading to the industrial revolution, organizational transformations, change management, customer experience & retention) • Mentor to the budding entrepreneurs selected by the central govt. of India & Qualcomm joint venture with NASCOMM for two years.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a senior leader in Automotive and IoT software development.
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Experience: 29 yrs 8 mos
Skills
- Product Management
- Customer Experience
- Business Strategy
- Engineering Leadership
Career Highlights
- Led 1100 product launches annually at Qualcomm.
- Expert in transitioning technologies from 2G to 5G.
- Strong leadership in automotive and IoT software sectors.
Work Experience
Qualcomm
Vice President & General Manager, Software - Automotive & IE-IOT (6 mos)
Vice President, Head of Software Products for Industrial & Embedded IoT verticals (7 mos)
Vice President, Head of Software Products for Automotive IVI (Cockpit), ADAS and Flex verticals (4 yrs 4 mos)
Vice President, Engineering (technology, platform, product and customer engineering) (23 yrs 5 mos)
Wipro Systems, Bangalore
Systems Manager (1 yr 11 mos)
Education
Leadership Skills for Top Management at Indian School of Business
M.Tech at Cochin University of Science and Technology
B.Tech at Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology
Diploma in Electronics & Communications at SES & SN Murthy Polytechnic
SSC at Sri Rama Krishna Vidyalayam