Raghu Ram Vengalil — Director of Engineering

With 18 years of experience as an Engineering and Product leader, I have successfully driven innovation and growth in top product companies across the eCommerce, Industrial B2B, and Enterprise Software sectors. My core expertise is in building and scaling high-performance technology teams, having led over 50 engineers and senior leaders, including managers, architects, and product managers. I have consistently driven the execution of large-scale, high-impact technology initiatives with a focus on innovation and performance. At Myntra, a subsidiary of Flipkart, I led the engineering efforts to build robust data platforms, processing over 10s of TB data daily and managing a multi-petabyte Data Lake. Under my leadership, these platforms efficiently handled 100,000 analytics queries per day and powered real-time machine learning prediction services, delivering millions of predictions with millisecond latencies, ensuring scalability, reliability at internet scale. I have successfully aligned technology roadmaps with business objectives, driving significant improvements in platform and engineering excellence metrics indirectly contributing towards revenue, customer acquisition, retention, profitability, and operational targets. My leadership is marked by a strong collaboration with business and product teams, enabling the delivery of innovative solutions to complex engineering challenges in dynamic, fast-paced environments. I regularly represent my company as an external speaker at industry conferences, sharing insights on our technology and product vision from the perspective of my leadership charter.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Data Engineering expert with extensive leadership experience.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 18 yrs 11 mos

Skills

Technology Leadership
Product Strategy
Software Management
People Management
Back-end Web Development

Career Highlights

18 years of experience in engineering and product leadership.
Led teams of over 50 engineers in high-performance environments.
Expert in building scalable data platforms and machine learning services.

Work Experience

Tekion Corp

Sr Director Engineering (1 yr 5 mos)

Myntra

Director - Engineering (2 yrs 9 mos)

Associate Director Engineering (2 yrs 3 mos)

GE Aviation

Senior Software Engineering Manager (7 mos)

Manager Software Engineering (6 mos)

GE Digital

Manager Software Engineering (6 mos)

Staff Data Engineer (1 yr 3 mos)

Riverbed Technology

Data Architect (4 mos)

Ocwen Financial Solutions Pvt. Ltd. - APAC

Data Architect (2 mos)

Oracle

Principal Member Technical Staff (2 yrs)

Project Leader (1 yr 10 mos)

Senior Member Technical Staff (1 yr 10 mos)

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

Senior System Engineer / Data Specialist (2 mos)

Infosys

Technology Analyst (5 mos)

Software Engineer (3 yrs 3 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Technology at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

Raghu Ram Vengalil

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

18 years of experience in engineering and product leadership.
Led teams of over 50 engineers in high-performance environments.
Expert in building scalable data platforms and machine learning services.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Data Engineering expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipProduct StrategySoftware ManagementPeople ManagementBack-end Web Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon KinesisAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache SparkAzure DatabricksBig DataBusiness IntelligenceBusiness Intelligence ToolsCloudfoundryDW/BIData ArchitectureData IntegrationData ModelingData Streaming

About

Experience

18 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Tekion corp

Sr Director Engineering

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Building Data and ML Platform

Big DataData StreamingTechnology LeadershipHigh Performance TeamsProduct StrategyManaging Managers+2

Myntra

2 roles

Director - Engineering

Apr 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead the Data and ML Platform team, overseeing critical initiatives such as transforming our architecture to a modern Lakehouse model and engineering-wide transformations to enhance data processing and real-time streaming capabilities. I managed the A/B experimentation platform and the enterprise message bus, driving significant improvements in system performance and cost efficiency. Additionally, I played a key role in technology strategy and compliance, ensuring our platforms met the highest standards of reliability and scalability.

Sprint PlanningTechnology LeadershipPeople ManagementHigh Performance TeamsProduct StrategyApache Spark+1

Associate Director Engineering

Dec 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led multiple teams in revamping our data platform, scaling ingestion capabilities for 7x increased data throughput. I spearheaded the development of a near real-time platform for critical services, optimized clickstream processing, and drove the adoption of agile practices across the organization.

Sprint PlanningAmazon Web Services (AWS)People ManagementSoftware ManagementAgile Methodologies

Ge aviation

2 roles

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Apr 2019 – Nov 2019 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

At GE Aviation, I led a full stack 20-member engineering team to build and scale the Digital Asset Fleet Management application, enhancing system responsiveness through the transition to an event-driven architecture. I also spearheaded the development of a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline to reducing deployment errors and accelerate release cycles.

Sprint Planning

Manager Software Engineering

Oct 2018 – Apr 2019 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Leading a team of multi-skilled engineers in an agile product development team

Ge digital

2 roles

Manager Software Engineering

Apr 2018 – Oct 2018 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Leading a team of multi-skilled engineers as part of the Digital Thread initiative building horizontal products used across multiple GE industrial verticals deployed on CloudFoundry.

Staff Data Engineer

Dec 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

As a Staff Data Engineer at GE Aviation, I architected and implemented scalable data models and ingestion platforms that enhanced data processing efficiency by. I led the development of high-performing microservices and RESTful APIs, improving data integration with 10+ external systems and increasing data throughput by 40%. I also guided an Agile team, optimizing data search capabilities and reducing query response times.

Back-End Web DevelopmentPostgreSQLGoMicroservicesElasticSearch