Laxmi N Rayapudi

CEO

San Diego, California, United States29 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led 1100 product launches annually at Qualcomm.
  • Expert in transitioning technologies from 2G to 5G.
  • Strong leadership in automotive and IoT software sectors.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a senior leader in Automotive and IoT software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementCustomer ExperienceBusiness StrategyEngineering Leadership

Other Skills

Change ManagementProgram ManagementBusiness InsightsProduct VisionProject CoordinationBusiness DevelopmentAnalyticsCommunicationOrganizational LeadershipUser Experience (UX)Concept to LaunchHuman Resources (HR)Embedded SystemsEmbedded SoftwareWireless

About

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.

Experience

29 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
14 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
27 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Qualcomm

4 roles

Vice President & General Manager, Software - Automotive & IE-IOT

Nov 2025Present · 6 mos

Vice President, Head of Software Products for Industrial & Embedded IoT verticals

Oct 2025Present · 7 mos

  • Responsible for IE-IOT Software Product Management across Consumer, Camera, Industrial, and Robotics product verticals - driving product management, execution, and scaling software products for IE-IOT platform domains to streamline areas across all OSs, BSPs, AP Tech, ISVs, Tools, and Documentation as well as 1P and 3P customer success,

Vice President, Head of Software Products for Automotive IVI (Cockpit), ADAS and Flex verticals

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • Lead Automotive Software Product Management - central responsibility for all Cockpit and ADAS software products across the BU defining a project-to-platform strategy and execution excellence of the roadmap, working externally with customers and internally with Engineering, CE, and Program Management. Work involves streamlining processes for requirements gathering and correlation to platform architecture. Responsible for helping grow and foster software expertise development in regional teams and software P&L for the automotive BU.
  • Leading organizational readiness for China Auto business - shepherd the localization and scaling of process, program management, development platforms, scalable software delivery, and third-party software integration. Responsible for closed loop feedback between business & various engineering teams, onboarding of ODCs and ISV partners, and improving the overall customer experience with a focus on the Cockpit and ADAS/AI platform
  • Leading the product & customer management, business engagement of the two-wheeler product segment for global deployments, including the P&L responsibility for same
  • Driving the GenAI business strategy for Qualcomm Automotive BU – conceiving the business models, go-to-market plan, monetizable product usecases, and roadmap decisions
  • Qualcomm Automotive ambassador for engagements with 3rd party ISVs focusing on bringing Qualcomm and partner technologies, and in-car/vehicle-platform on the road - sharing our vision with ecosystem partners and influencing the roadmap at technology, product, platform, and chassis level.
  • BU-wide responsibilities for all proof of concept, prototyping, custom projects, new form factor development, demonstrations, to create the Qualcomm Automotive Experience across Qualcomm products and partners.
Customer ExperienceChange ManagementProgram ManagementBusiness InsightsProduct VisionProject Coordination+7

Vice President, Engineering (technology, platform, product and customer engineering)

Jul 1998Dec 2021 · 23 yrs 5 mos

  • Instrumental in strategizing/seeding/growing various teams across Mobile, IoT, Compute & Auto business units:
  • ● Lead the org-wide SW Ecosystem Engagement & Mindshare Engineering Strat for Qualcomm Mobile & Compute Business
  • ● ~300 member Android organization responsible for Android enablement & productization across the Qualcomm MSM portfolio. Directly responsible for ~700+ Android devices a year, and ~3 billion smartphone shipments over a period of 8 years.
  • ● ~500 member customer engineering team spread across modem, multimedia, connectivity, HLOS & BSP. Strong relationship with worldwide operators, OEMs and ODMs (including various HLOS partners) through extensive travel, active participation in their product launch strategies, owning the execution with team solving ~100K cases/year.
  • ● ~100 member team working across various IoT verticals. Worked as a project engineer for all IoT segments driving 60+ product launches across wear/voice & music/media/connected cameras.
  • ● ~150 member BSP team taking end-to-end responsibility for the BSP components across Qualcomm value-tier portfolio, enabling rest of the ecosystem develop software on top of the varied HW.
  • ● ~200 member world class Multimedia Customer Engineering organization spread across US, UK, Korea, China, Taiwan & India. Part of the engineering leadership team leading the Application Processor attach, realizing Qualcomm’s vision of world’s best integrated SoC
  • ● Strategizing & executing multiple ODC engagements accounting for ~300+ workforce per year – mitigating cost & schedule risk.
Customer ExperienceChange ManagementProgram ManagementBusiness InsightsProject CoordinationBusiness Development+7

Wipro systems, bangalore

Systems Manager

Jul 1996Jun 1998 · 1 yr 11 mos · London, United Kingdom & Bangalore, India

  • ● Responsible for development/commercialization of network switching protocols (SS7 based) for various international markets on Nortel DMS100.
  • ● Responsible for the Voice Over IP client project - seed member for the very first British Telcom VoIP project

Education

Indian School of Business

Leadership Skills for Top Management

Jan 2012Present

Cochin University of Science and Technology

M.Tech — Digital Electronics

Jan 1994Jan 1996

Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology

B.Tech — Electronics & Communications

Jan 1991Jan 1994

SES & SN Murthy Polytechnic

Diploma in Electronics & Communications — Electronics & Communication

Jan 1987Jan 1991

Sri Rama Krishna Vidyalayam

SSC

Jan 1977Jan 1987

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