Raghu Dwarakanath Email & Phone Number

Woodland Hills, CA, US

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• Achievements - Impacted top-bottom line via talent/cost arbitrage, and high-performance organization
• Grew an acquired startup from 45 to 500+ strong engineering/operations organization in 3+ years
• TiVo India contribution to a budgetary cost reduction, by arbitrage, was at $70 million per year
• Board director of TiVo Tech India Pvt Ltd. and signatory for the corporate entity in India
• Strategized and executed on total talent management - 10% offer declines and <15% attrition
• Focused on employee engagement and culture which yielded a 4.2 on Glassdoor

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Achievements – Solved customer's contemporary security challenges with innovative security products
• Product leader of the security BU in India and China managing VPN, UAC, and firewall products
• Delivered on-time, high-quality within budget outcomes in roadmaps, releases, sustaining and escalations
• Managed an engineering organization of 250+ by attracting, retaining, and growing top talent
• Transitioned VPN and UAC business to a private equity firm with zero attrition
• Expanded engineering by 100 engineers, in 4 months, driven mostly by talent/cost arbitrage

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

• Achievements – Re-engineered, integrated and scaled the engineering organization post multiple acquisitions
• Engineering and site leader for a 400-member product development organization
• Mentored directors, managers, architects, and engineers to deliver high quality products, on time and within budget constraints
• Incubated several product teams including SIEM, Identity/access management, and GRC
• Partnered with business leaders representing RSA in the Asia Pacific region
• Accountable for India talent management lifecycle, data center infrastructure, and finance

Mountain View, California, US

• Achievements – Delivered Intuit’s emerging market startup and Canada/UK SMB products
• Established an innovation incubator running 13 product experiments in the Indian market
• Defined customer persona via design-delights / follow-me-homes with 400+ customer visits
• Launched 2 SMB and 1 consumer products with go-to market partners and retail
• Managed a globally distributed QuickBooks engineering teams for Canadian and UK markets
• Raised the QB net promoter score from 7 to over 57 in a year, surpassing sales/profitability targets

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Product development leader responsible for development of systems management products and firmware technologies for enterprise class server product lines

San Jose, California, US

• Led and spearheaded product development organization’s growth, stability, and maturity
• Re-structured the engineering organization from functional to a product competency with P&L responsibility
• Responsible for end-to-end product development of $100 million revenue security products

Austin, Texas, US

• Managed global teams that developed, ported, and sustained clustering on 25+ platforms
• Delivered early versions of DB-RAC on 13 platforms in 4 months with a matrix team of 50+
• Participated in a company wide effort to increase product quality resulting in reduced escalations
• Interfaced with infrastructure partners like IBM, Veritas, HP, Sun, and EMC

Santa Clara, California, US

• Led engineering to deliver Linux based appliances for identity infrastructure and services
• Grew the engineering organization from 8 to 30 in a span of 3 months
• Engaged with sales, marketing, and customer support to define product roadmap

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Engineering leader of the Solaris identity (naming and directory) services
• Charted the vision, direction, and roadmap for Solaris identity (naming & directory) services.
• Delivered market ready product releases on time, within budget and of high quality
• Worked with marketing to engage and evangelize with middle and executive management
• Created a professional services migration practice from NIS/NIS+ to LDAP
• Drove end to end program management of 64-bit Solaris implementation on Intel's IA64/Itanium including the core operating system, compiler & tools, X windows & CDE, install, administration and other components

Houston, Texas, US

• Developed emerging internet technologies such as workflow process manager
• Member of lab that design, development, integration, and maintenance of core software products for the HP-UX operating system. Focused on 64-bit (files and files systems and OS) and standards
• Participated in the development/support of CAD/CAM tools for hardware design and layout
• Member of an engineering team that led development and manufacturing of PCs and networking products

Ms, Computer Science

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

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