Rajaram Viswanathan

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 21+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
  • Patent holder and frequent innovation awardee.
  • Expert in building scalable cloud-native systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS architect with extensive experience in observability and cloud-native systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Observability PlatformsCloud-native SystemsData AnalyticsCloud ArchitectureMulti-tenancyPerformance OptimizationSoftware Architecture

Other Skills

PromQLHybrid ingestion pipelinesKafkaClickHouseNVIDIA GPU observabilitySQLANTLR4AWSKubernetesSpringDatabase designScrumAgile MethodologiesJava Enterprise EditionJSP

About

Visionary engineering leader with 21+ years of experience building, scaling, and evolving enterprise-grade platforms, cloud-native systems, and zero-to-one observability products.Adept at leading architecture and execution across complex, distributed environments—delivering highly available, performant, and customer-centric solutions across SaaS, infrastructure, and multi-tenant ecosystems. Trusted as a technical strategist, hands-on architect, and code-quality evangelist. Passionate about simplifying complexity, enabling team excellence, and shaping system design with precision, scalability, and longevity in mind. Patent holder, frequent innovation awardee, and relentless execution driver.

Experience

21 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

Atlassian

Principal Engineer

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Broadcom

Senior Principal Engineer

Nov 2023Jun 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Designed VMware's next-gen observability platform for large-scale private cloud telemetry—analogous to CloudWatch/Datadog for on-prem.
  • Architected hybrid ingestion pipelines supporting Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and proprietary formats from vCenter/ESXi.
  • Achieved 7× reduction in memory footprint (2 GB → < 300MB) through optimization of long-lived connections and inventory algorithms.
  • Developed petabyte-scale Kafka → Stream → Wavefront pipelines, sustaining 300k+ PPS.
  • Built ClickHouse-backed PromQL query service, translating PromQL into SQL using ANTLR4—powering analytics in the VCF Ops console.
  • Integrated NVIDIA GPU observability for Private AI Foundation workloads, enhancing visibility for critical AI workloads.
  • Designed a fleet-level metrics aggregation layer, combining instance-local storage with coarse-grained FSDB sync and laying groundwork for continuous streaming to a central ClickHouse via Kafka Connect.
PromQLHybrid ingestion pipelinesKafkaClickHouseNVIDIA GPU observabilityObservability platforms+1

Vmware

Staff 2 Engineer

Jun 2021Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Intuit

Staff Software Engineer

Jan 2020Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Driving end to end architecture for scaling several key products disrupting the mid market space.
  • Lead a high performing team to drive the product capabilities for the new regional launches.
  • Key architect for enabling the multi tenancy support for the workflow orchestration platform.
  • Instrumental in scaling the Intuit wide platform capability by provisioning the multi swim lane infrastructure in AWS cloud using the K8S tools.
  • Key focus on reducing TP99 metrics, driving operational and engineering excellence practices.
  • Establishing the common patterns for partner integrations for creating a seamless connected eco system.

Xactly corp

3 roles

Engineering Manager - Platform

Nov 2019Jan 2020 · 2 mos

Senior Principal Engineer

Aug 2019Nov 2019 · 3 mos

Principal Software Engineer

Nov 2015Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Achievements/Tasks:
  • Architecting and building highly scalable product features
  • Responsible for creating High level and low level designs
  • Working on a Platform wide initiative to provide Database agnostic unified Data access interface
  • Improved Calculation performance 10X by using parallel execution of calculation queries
  • Built a generic Workflow engine,Audit services using Spring batch & JaVers
  • Responsible for setting builds for new modules, writing chef scripts for deployment
  • Active contribution to brown bag sessions and architecture oversight process

Successfactors

2 roles

Lead Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2012Oct 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • As a senior programmer, I was responsible for design and development of complex features and develop frameworks which can be used across the teams. I worked for team which is involved in making complex requirements in simpler and intuitive way which the customer can use it as a self service tool. My hack day prototype is much talked about and has been shipped into the product suite.
  • Other Key Tasks/Achievements:
  • Design and development of features, ensure quality by maximum code coverage.
  • Hackathon : 2 times winner, 3 times runner up.
  • USPTO Patent holder.
  • Conceived,Designed and developed my hack idea into a full fledged flagship product "Upgrade Center"
  • Worked on an simple, intuitive 0$ setup product for the SMB customers.
  • Designed and Developed a compensation statement feature which helped customers to save 1000's of dollars.
  • Implemented several customer engagement tools like Guided tour, 2 Minute tutorial etc.
  • Worked on multiple enterprise grade features for Learning management products.

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2010Apr 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos

Software ag

Engineering Specialist

Jul 2006Nov 2010 · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • As a Senior Programmer, was responsible for
  • Design and development of TN UI for the new features.
  • Prepare design documents and Interface specifications.
  • Write Unit tests for backend services.
  • QTP failure analysis and fix critical blockers
  • Help team to estimate complex UI issue.
  • Mentor team to ramp up in UI specific tasks to encourage cross functional activities.
  • Log work done for user stories
  • Check points for done definitions

Satyam computer services limited

Software Engineer

Mar 2004Jun 2006 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Trilogy

Satyam Contractor

Jan 2004Jan 2005 · 1 yr

  • As a Configuration Management Consultant, was responsible for
  • Requirement gathering and interpretation using open office tools.
  • Design and Development.
  • Coding using CML.
  • Regression and Functional testing using the automated test scripts in xml.
  • The team adhered to a strict Quality metric of less than 5 defects per release (30 days)

Education

V L B Janakiammal college of Engg. and Technology

BE — IT

Jan 1999Jan 2003

Rose Mary Matric Hr. Sec. School

HSC

Jan 1997Jan 1999

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