Ravi Akula Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Florida, US

Houston, Texas, US

• Engineering Lead for transforming CWP as a SaaS offering that accounted for 90% of new customers
• Lead both internal and vendor teams to transform CWP as an ERP / CMMS agnostic SaaS offering; 80% of additional market opened up for Innovapptive.
• Formulated and Executed technology roadmap to transfer existing customers to SaaS offering; it played a pivotal role in securing $26M Series B funding for Innovapptive from Vista Equity Partners.
• Revamped release processes to include CI / CD pipeline, automation testing and introduced SaaS Ops / Dev Ops practices; new tenant onboarding was reduced to 10% of overall time
• Reformed quality practices which resulted in o Average age of a bug reduced to 25% of overall time o Open bug count reduced to 25% within a quarter o Introduction of new bugs trended down to 20% compared to previous.
• Coordinated with Product Owners to present technology roadmap to PSO and CS teams to ensure they are aligned on overall architecture and roadmap

Austin, TX, US

• Managed Infinity core squads’ teams (400+ members) responsible for entire Infinity App suite (digital banking, Origination, Branch Banking, Wealth, VCOO…)
• Designed and transformed Origination apps architecture combining three technologies (Temenos, Kony, Avoka) to build a SaaS offering, core banking agnostic, ‘API first’ application suite; 40+ customers have signed up.
• Ensured Temenos partnership goals (Salesforce, Redhat…) are achieved by coming up with integration / adoption plans and executed with minimal deviations to the original product roadmap.
• Participated in Pre-Sales, Sales and Customer Engagement meetings to present product roadmap; ensured professional services, partner teams customer roll out aligned with product roadmap.
• Contributed to make Kony Quantum and Temenos MS framework feature rich to improve app development and deployment significantly; base product upgrade was possible on customer environment without loosing customizations.

Austin, TX, US

Formed and mentored new teams to build responsive web application for consumer lending (30% increase in customer queries for Kony DBX suite)

Austin, TX, US

• Planned and delivered from inception to customer roll out of a new vertical - Field Services mobile / tablet application suite; Tier #1 customer signed up for Kony and later played a vital role in partnering with HCL.
• Developed a pet project - Demo Management System (DMS) which has become integral part of Kony DBX platform for seamless customer onboarding

Austin, TX, US

One of the early managers of Vertical Apps team at Kony. Handled verticals like Retail Banking, Insurance, Healthcare...to build native mobile and tablet apps. These apps helped to showcase the capability of Kony platform to potential customers. This team has opened up new stream of revenue to the Organization.

Hyderabad, Telangana, IN

• Formed a 3-member team which grown to 100+ member Snapfish internationalization team; i18n framework helped to launch Snapfish in 20 countries and launch time was reduced by 30% of time.
• Derived system integrations and liaised to integrate Snapfish site with 3rd party applications / sites using Snapfish web services and http-based protocols – around 20% annual revenue was achieved using these.
• Designed and led ten-member team to execute java based configurable shopping cart framework – Snapfish site was launched in 17 out of 20 international countries using this framework – site preparation was reduced to.
• Designed and led seven-member team to execute offsite payment framework which was used to integrate Open Invoice in Austria, Germany, and Convenient Store Payment in Japan, and Alipay, Payease in China, iDeal RTBT in.
• Part of the design team of Fulfilment vendor and Retailer integration module – this module was used by various teams to integrate around 50 vendors / retail partners to Snapfish sites across the globe – a new vendor /.
• One of the key members in rolling out Agile practices and roll out of scrum methodology

• During early stages of career, worked on J2EE technology stack and part of the following products design and development
• Athena – a web based distributed document retention management system
• divine Participant Server 4.5 – a web-based content management application
• eTires US - a 30-page eCommerce website
• Represented and actively demoed adoption of JSP 2.0, J2EE based MVC framework in product development at technology events
• Upgraded my knowledge on J2EE technology by doing certifications at regular intervals

Advanced Certification In Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Master Of Computer Applications, Computer Science, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Science, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science

Intermediate, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry