Rashmi Agrawal — VP of Engineering

Rashmi is a highly accomplished Global R&D leader with 26 years of experience driving product innovation and execution at enterprise-grade companies like IBM, Dell/EMC, and Rocket Software. Her expertise spans a wide range of products, including datacenter, cloud, AI, storage, developer efficiency, supply management, and application solutions. Adept at taking next-generation products from concept to go-to-market, Rashmi has a proven track record of building and leading world-class, geographically dispersed teams (US, China, Netherlands, Germany, UK, India). She excels at collaborating cross-functionally with Product Management, Sales, Support, Services, and Corporate Strategy to deliver innovative products. Rashmi has held executive management roles, contributing to corporate strategy, M&A, technical architecture, and roadmap development. She is passionate about building strong teams through hiring, coaching, and mentorship, empowering individuals to reach their full potential. A strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, she has spearheaded numerous initiatives to foster a positive and productive team culture. Rashmi and her husband, Manish, an entrepreneur, have two children, Saransh and Sarvansh. We are proud parents and spending time with children is our favorite activity. Products : Isilon NAS, IBM Systems Director, IBM Scale out NAS, IBM Mid range unified storage V7000, IBM dynix/ptx operating system, polyserve Cluster server, NetApp storevault, Rocket EDI/TFE, Rocket MV database, Rocket Uniface, Rocket iCluster/DevOps/MXWeb/TE/Rocket API

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Enterprise Software expert with extensive experience in product management and cloud solutions.

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 25 yrs 8 mos

Skills

Product Management
Leadership
Cloud Computing
Architecture
Project Management

Career Highlights

26 years of experience in global R&D leadership.
Expertise in product innovation across multiple domains.
Strong advocate for diversity and team empowerment.

Work Experience

Rocket Software

Vice President of Engineering, App Modernization (3 yrs 2 mos)

Sr Director of Software Engineering, App Modernization Leader (3 yrs 11 mos)

Dell EMC

Group Manager - Isilon Storage as a Service on Google/AWS (3 yrs 4 mos)

BMC Software

Senior Product Development Manager (1 yr 2 mos)

IBM

Senior Product Development Manager (6 yrs)

Calsoft

Senior Product Manager (2 yrs)

Texas Instruments

Project Manager (2 yrs 3 mos)

Wipro Technologies

Senior Software Engineer (3 yrs)

Infosys

Software Engineer (1 yr 5 mos)

Education

MBA at The University of Texas at Dallas

BE at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya

Rashmi Agrawal

VP of Engineering

Pune, Maharashtra, India25 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

26 years of experience in global R&D leadership.
Expertise in product innovation across multiple domains.
Strong advocate for diversity and team empowerment.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Enterprise Software expert with extensive experience in product management and cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementLeadershipCloud ComputingArchitectureProject Management

Other Skills

CloudSecurityAIUX/UIDevOpsHA/DRTeam LeadershipStorageProgram ManagementRequirement GatheringStrategyManagementSDLCProduct MarketingEnterprise Software

About

Experience

25 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Rocket software

2 roles

Vice President of Engineering, App Modernization

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Global R&D leader for multiple product lines of B2Bi (Rocket EDX electronic data exchange, TFE design data exchange, Trucentrix workflow management), Terminal Emulator, HA/DR, DevOps, Modernization products. Handling 200+ FTE in Europe, US and India. The teams are largely built from scratch and created a high performance teams which are actively delivering for 14+ products in variety of technologies like Cloud, Security, AI, UX/UI, DevOps, HA/DR on Windows, Linux and IBMi platforms. Influencing products with stream of multi million dollar revenue.

CloudSecurityAIUX/UIDevOpsHA/DR+2

Sr Director of Software Engineering, App Modernization Leader

Apr 2019 – Mar 2023 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Global R&D leader for multi-million dollar revenue products. Globally Leading multiple products and supporting many other products across India, Germany, UK, USA, China and Australia.

Product ManagementLeadership

Dell emc

Group Manager - Isilon Storage as a Service on Google/AWS

Dec 2015 – Apr 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Pune

Global R&D Leader for developing DellEMC Isilon scale out NAS on AWS and Google Cloud platforms. The platform provided an extremely scalable Storage as a service enterprise grade product along with just in time test infrastructure on cloud with infinite scale for reducing the test cycles and dependency on hardware
Presented the concept to executive team for approval and drove the concept with product management, engineering and infrastructure organisations to define roadmaps, develop and architect the product from ground up as well as built strong teams from scratch by hiring and ramping up fast
Partnered with Google and AWS to deliver on functionalities. This required to architect the product with AWS/Google as well as to keep abreast with cloud offerings to build the best in class product

CloudStorageArchitectureProduct ManagementCloud Computing

Bmc software

Senior Product Development Manager

Sep 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune

Led full end to end development of Cloud Life Cycle management product line
Successfully delivered on public cloud proxy providers Azure, AWS, OpenStack, vCloud air, IBM SoftLayer , Docker for PaaS for broader customer reach
Led development of on premise providers for vmware, HyperV and Xen
End to end Delivery management of BMC CLM

Cloud ComputingProject ManagementProduct Management

Ibm

Senior Product Development Manager

Jan 2008 – Jan 2014 · 6 yrs · Pune

Products : IBM systems director for Sys X, P, I servers, CMM for IBM PureFlex
Built , Owned and driven the SMASH based CIM stack development (IBM Systems Director) ground up from 0 to 35+ team size as well as 11 Vendors for Storage controller (ex : LSI, Adaptec) and Network cards (ex - Qlogic, Brocade)
Responsible for Worldwide Program Management, Architecture, Development/test deliveries including product strategy and roadmap creation
DMTF profile implementation for power, fan, voltage, temperature, network and virtual infrastructure monitoring to get all statistics of hardware as well as software related profiles like Software Inventory, User management etc as well as CIM profile enhancement for better inventory, Install/Upgrade enhancement resulting in reduction of Customer escalations by 50%
Led interlocks with internal IBM teams as well as third party vendors like qlogic, lsi, Emulex for HW code integrations. Created execution/integration model for 11 vendors which helped in reducing schedule variance by 50% and defect number by 80%
Lead multiple quality releases with tight quality control and have been recognized several times for product turnaround where defects counts improved by 95% over a period of time
Created quality processes which were later adopted by whole BU. Was able to influence through results and helped other teams adopting the process.
Customer engagements for top 10 IBM customers like JPMC, RBC, CIBC, NYSE, HSBC for successful POC of IBM Systems Director resulting in multi million dollar revenue

ArchitectureProgram ManagementProduct Management

Calsoft

Senior Product Manager

Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Texas instruments

Project Manager

May 2004 – Aug 2006 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Texas, United States

Project management, Requirement gathering, evaluation and implemention of products. Market analysis of available solutions for data protection. Project manager to drive enterprise wide archiving strategy for email, databases and IM.