Ravi Ramchandran

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Built and scaled a 30+ member engineering team.
  • Led high-impact initiatives across major tech companies.
  • Holds two patents in data quality and smart operations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Healthcare expert with strong leadership in AI and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementLarge Language Models (llm)Generative AiMachine LearningSoftware ArchitectureCloud Security

Other Skills

API IntegrationAWSAgile MethodologiesAngularArchitectureBig DataCRMChange ManagementCloud ComputingCloud FoundryCross-functional Team LeadershipData IngestionData LakeData ProcessingEnterprise Software

About

I head IDC Engineering for Azure Model Scaling Platform within Azure AI Core. My role involves managing managers, distinguished engineers, and machine learning experts to strengthen the foundational components of the Azure AI Core. I built this organization from the ground up at IDC, shaping its vision, end-to-end experiences, and platform strategy while overseeing site-facing operations, on-call pods, and cross-functional initiatives. My journey has evolved from a distinguished individual contributor to a strategic leader, driving multiple high-impact initiatives across Microsoft, Walmart, Oracle and GE. Along the way, I’ve explored the intersection of management, innovation, and leadership—realizing that true leadership goes beyond frameworks. I’ve developed a leadership style rooted in self-mastery, human-centric principles, and pragmatic execution. I am deeply passionate about attracting, hiring, and retaining top engineering talent, fostering inclusive teams, and creating a culture of collaboration and innovation. With a postgraduate degree in Machine Learning and AI, along with Management certification from IIM, I bring both technical depth and strategic vision to my work. I also hold two patents in data quality and smart operations. Always looking to connect with like-minded professionals—let’s talk

Experience

22 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

Principal Engineering Manager/Director| India Engineering Lead | Azure AI

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Hybrid

  • Head IDC Engineering for Model Ecosystem, Fleet Scale Platform and Azure Services RP within Microsoft Azure AI Organization
  • We are focused on LLM model hosting, monitoring, benchmarking, performance optimization, scalable deployments, and hardware-agnostic inferencing. The goal is to seamlessly integrate these capabilities into user-facing services that align with the broader Microsoft Azure AI ecosystem, including Azure OpenAI and Large Language Models ecosystem
  • Built and scaled a 30+ member IDC team across Model Catalogue, LLMOps, MaaS, and MaaP, fostering a strong team culture while contributing to cross-functional IDC initiatives. Established a globally integrated organization across time zones, providing strategic direction across three business areas and independently shaping a long-term growth roadmap, followed by efficient execution.
  • Additionally, I led the implementation of 'follow-the-sun' operational models and incubated emerging competencies for Model Buildout from the ground up—playing multiple hands-on roles to drive innovation and execution.
Python (Programming Language)Software ArchitectureCross-functional Team LeadershipEngineering ManagementLarge Language Models (LLM)Generative AI+2

Walmart global tech

3 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2023Mar 2024 · 1 yr

  • Responsible for multiple charters like Vertical Experiences, Typeahead, Facets , Cross Functional Engineering, ML Platform and Search Operations - Eval Platform
  • Lead ML engineers, Staff and 1st/2nd line managers and produced impactful results across the charters.
Risk AppetiteEstablishing PrioritiesCross-functional Team LeadershipGenerative AILarge Language Models (LLM)Python (Programming Language)+3

Senior Engineering Manager - Search

Promoted

Dec 2019Mar 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Leading a team of engineers and machine learning engineers to strengthen AI foundational components for experimentation in Search and Relevance.
  • Built and incubated the Machine Learning Platform for Search
  • Drive end to end Search Effectiveness using Search Eval Platform
  • Kubernetes, Microservices, Machine Learning, Kafka, React-Redux, GCP, Spring Boot, Theia, Hive, Spark, ELK, and host of internal services of Walmart.
Risk AppetiteCross-functional Team LeadershipAngularGenerative AILarge Language Models (LLM)Python (Programming Language)+4

Manager - Walmart Data Platform

May 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Created a SaaS Platform Service for managing Walmart Data Quality Workflows.
  • Established the Data Governance Charter and rolled out to Walmart
  • Build a scalable Data Platform for Managing Walmart Scale Data Flows
  • Hive, Spark, Microservices, Data Lake, Hadoop, HDFS, HBase, Collibra, API Integration, Data Pipeline
AngularSoftware ArchitectureProblem SolvingEngineering Management

Ge healthcare

Engineering Leader - IoT and Cloud

Jan 2014Jan 2018 · 4 yrs

  • Delivered the SaaS Backbone for Managing Users and Organizations for Edison AI
  • Delivered a Software Defined IoT Device, which is the Secure Data Pipe, to push Data to the Health Cloud Data Lake.
  • Led a team of Architects and Leads to define and scale the Cloud Roadmap for GE Healthcare
  • Microservices, Data Processing, Data Ingestion, IoT Devices, Cloud Security, Cloud Foundry, AWS
  • Big Data, Hadoop, HDFS, Spark, Spark Streaming Hive
  • Team:
  • IoT and Cloud Platform Development for GE Products
  • Interests and Learning :
  • Enterprise Journey to the Cloud, Cloud Migration and Approach for Legacy Application, What is a Microservice, and common Mistakes Around it, Agile Architecture, Building Teams and Mentoring, Scaling Services in the Cloud, AWS, Cloud Costing Domain, Health Care, Security
AngularSoftware ArchitectureProblem SolvingCloud Security

Societe generale corporate & investment banking

Principal Architect/AVP

Jan 2013Jan 2014 · 1 yr · India

  • Was a part of the Enterprise Architecture Team in Societe Generale.
  • Creating and Maintaining the roadmap for the Enterprise Software Factory (In house PaaS platform for Continuous Delivery – Build, Test, Deploy Automation)
  • Leading CMP Perimeter on their Product Road Map for Mobile (Strategy, Roadmap and Implementation PoC to make their products Mobile Aware and Enabled)

Cognizant technology solutions

Various - Manager/Architect - Technology

Jan 2008Jan 2013 · 5 yrs · Chicago, United Kingdom

  • Built an Insurance Adjudication Product, for a Healthcare major. It flagged outliers, and also allowed to customised rules to flag frauds, overages, approved codes. It could be deployed in many countries, with mere configuration
  • Conceptualized and built a cross continent personalization portal for the Europes largest refinancing company
  • Built the first version of Front Office Portal for a US Bank, with dynamic rate categorisation and real time link to backend system
  • Principal Architect for Healthcare IT Products/Medicaid Domain
  • Senior Architect for Insurance Domain Products/CRM Domain Products
  • Architect in Enterprise Application Integration CoE for leading expertise on BPEL, BAM, ESB, BPMN suites

Oracle

Senior Applications Engineer

Jan 2006Jan 2008 · 2 yrs

  • Global SPOC for Oracle CRM Products, responsible for enhancement, support and new releases
  • Additional responsibility of PoC on Fusion

Tata consultancy services

Systems Engineer

Jan 2003Jan 2006 · 3 yrs

Education

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Postgraduate Degree — Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Dec 2021Jan 2022

Liverpool John Moores University

(Pursuing) Master of Science - MS by Research — Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Dec 2024Mar 2025

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

ILEAD Program - Leadership in Retail (Through Walmart Labs)

Apr 2023Present

NIT

Jan 1999Jan 2003

Gujarat University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

Jan 2003Present

St. Xaviers Loyola School

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