Raj Jayapalan

CTO

Austin, Texas, United States25 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led cross-discipline teams to deliver high-impact projects.
  • Designed a patentable security model for payment systems.
  • Achieved highest award for technical and leadership excellence.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with strong leadership in software engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Quality Assurance

Other Skills

.NETAPI ManagementAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAutomationBilling Platform DevelopmentBudget ManagementC#Cloud ComputingCode DevelopmentCross-discipline Team ManagementCustomer SatisfactionData ManagementDeploymentDevelopment

About

Experienced Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the computer networking industry. Skilled in Engineering Leadership, Software Development, Test Management, Management, Software as a Service (SaaS), Test Planning, and C#. Strong engineering professional with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) focused in Business Administration and Management, General Management from Cornell University - Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Experience

25 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
8 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

Engineering Leader

Sep 2017Present · 8 yrs 9 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Own the API layer that provides data for all shopping experience. Many tier 1 service relies on these APIs to provide their content. Responsible for managing a cross discipline team Dev/PM and QA . Own setting vision, planning, development , testing and operations for this team.
API ManagementCross-discipline Team ManagementVision SettingPlanningDevelopmentTesting+3

Cisco

Technical Leader - IOT

Nov 2016Sep 2017 · 10 mos · Santa Clara, California

  • Played a key role in building the state of the art highly available, scalable and reliable billing platform for IOT business. Played different roles based on business needs.
Billing Platform DevelopmentScalabilityReliabilitySoftware DevelopmentEngineering Leadership

Wex inc. (nyse: wex)

Director of Engineering

Jun 2014Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Portland, Maine Area

  • Head a team of software engineers/QA and Dev ops team that delivers state of art payment system. Accountable for strategic leadership, setting vision and manage annual budget of $20 MM for a $200 MM line of business. Worked closely with leadership team to align project priorities with business priorities. Hands on leadership and designed the patentable security model for payment system. Won the President Award that is the highest award in WEX for technical and leadership excellence
Payment System DevelopmentStrategic LeadershipBudget ManagementTeam ManagementSecurity Model DesignEngineering Leadership+1

Microsoft

5 roles

Senior Engineering Manager - Windows OS Services

Apr 2012Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Senior Engineering Manager – Windows OS Services
  • Owned the entire family safety stack both client (shipped as part of Windows) and Service (Cloud). Owned the product planning/strategy/execution and driving for results. Increased the customer satisfaction by involving the engineering team in news groups that resulted in better education to support team, better help in documentation and improvements to the product. Invested in customer telemetry that helped to identify customer issues before found by customers.
Product PlanningCustomer SatisfactionService MonitoringEngineering LeadershipSoftware Development

Senior Engineering Manager - Azure Active Directory (consumed by Office 365)

Jan 2010Apr 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Owned the core MSODS component used by the cloud active directory. Founder/spearheaded the watchdog project that auto-recovers the service when there is a customer facing outage thereby reducing the downtime. Spearheaded in forming modern test team with test owning monitors for the service, dashboard that provides component health, tools required for troubleshooting/debugging. Also drove fault tolerance/disabled feature strategy for the MSODS component. Responsibility includes coming up with strategy, defining execution plan and delivering results
Service RecoveryFault Tolerance StrategyTest Team FormationEngineering LeadershipSoftware Development

Senior Engineering Manager - Windows Intune

Promoted

Sep 2007Jan 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Windows Intune is a cloud based PC management and Security solution. Owned the Service fundamentals that includes Deployment, service monitoring, and service telemetry. Also owned workloads desktop monitoring, alerting, end-point protection and remote control. Responsibility includes coming up with strategy, defining execution plan and delivering results. Worked with offshore vendors in India and China defining metrics and exit criteria that contributed to the success of the project.
Service FundamentalsDeploymentService TelemetryEngineering LeadershipSoftware Development

Engineering Manager - Windows

Sep 2004Sep 2007 · 3 yrs

  • Engineering Manager – Group Policy (Windows)
  • Owned group policy in windows and delivered DART and Advance group policy management as part of MDOP. Shipped Group policy Windows 7 and version 3 and 4 of AGPM in MDOP. Defined the strategy and executed in shipping the features with high quality. Worked with offshore vendors in India and China defining metrics and exit criteria that contributed to the success of the project.
  • Engineering Manager- Forefront Client Security
  • Owned Vulnerability Assesment feature in FCS V1. Own writing test plans, test cases and automation for the feature. Need to collaborate with cross group like BPA and WSUS to leverage their work into our framework. Participated in the RSA conference for competitive market analysis.
Group Policy ManagementFeature DeliveryQuality ExecutionEngineering LeadershipSoftware Development

Software Engineer

Apr 2001Sep 2004 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Software Engineer Automatic Updates (AU)
  • Owned the integration of AU with Microsoft Update. Worked with PM, Dev and cross team to make sure that all the scenarios are covered. Owned test plan and test code.
  • Environment: C#, C++,.Net and Win32 API’s
  • Software Engineer Windows Update Services (WUS)
  • Owned reporting for the WUS server. Did Cross group work with windows update site team, mscom team and the AU (client) team. Wrote tools that helped to fetch data from huge DB.
  • Environment: C#, .Net, SQL server, Web services
  • Software Engineer Group Policy Management console (GPMC)
  • A V1 product. Designed test strategy for the whole project. Wrote common code and automation framework for the entire team.
  • Environment: C++ and Win32 API’s
IntegrationTest PlanningAutomationSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Quality Assurance

Ibm canada

Software Developer

Jun 2000Mar 2001 · 9 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • Part of the Data Management and Services and Index Manager team. Develop code for the version 8.1 release.
  • Environment: C on AIX machine
Data ManagementCode DevelopmentSoftware Development

Education

Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Jan 2014Jan 2017

University of Manitoba

Master of Science (M.Sc.) — Computer Science

Jan 1998Jan 2000

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Science

Jan 1993Jan 1997

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