Ravi Punati is a Director Of Engineering at Identiv. Colleagues describe them as "Ravi is that rare balance of deep technical knowledge, breadth of technical understanding, awareness of customer priorities and a trusted and respected leader of teams. He led our video platform engineering teams internationally and locally, always delivering on-time and with great quality. As important, he's always a partner with product, working together to bring technical insights and options to accomplish product priorities. Although Engineering always has to maintain distance from sales so both teams can focus on their goals, Ravi managed to stay connected with sales and the voice of the customer so he could bring outside-in insights to our technical direction. Ravi also is flexible and resilient, working in a company our company acquired and continuing forward to lead engineering for our video products post-merger. He was a steady force through transitions and the process of cultural alignment that always comes with mergers. He kept the engineering team focused and positive, supported the integration of tech support teams, and built trust with the product and sales teams in our combined companies. Ravi is always ready to grow and learn as well. When we built a near-shore (Mexico) development team primarily for mobile and web platforms, he stepped in to lead the team from our core engineering. In this role he quickly built a strong connection with the Mexico team while continuing to lead our core video teams in California and India, adding value across mobile and web as well as his core video and server expertise. Ravi is a great engineer to work with, brings deep and broad technical skills, and is a leader and positive contributor to the success of any organization. His dedication, character and determination to succeed – and to strive to help his company succeed – is a huge benefit to any business he's a part of. " and "As I write this recommendation I have been managing Ravi for about two and a half years. Over that time he has continued to impress me on his range of skills, knowledge and leadership. On a technical level, Ravi is an especially capable systems engineer. I have not come across many people in my career that have a truly deep understanding of how all the software, hardware and networking systems and subsystems interact. But Ravi is one of those people. As a result of applying his systems understanding to our product designs, we are able to create outstanding customer solutions based on products designed to work by themselves - or together as a unit. I have seen Ravi demonstrate proficiency in C#, MySQL, Python and Javascript and he is always willing to take on new tasks and learn new tools and technologies. Ravi is also one of the key lieutenants in the Engineering group. He directly manages three teams: Northern California, Chennai India and an external team in Tijuana Mexico. I have found Ravi to be the perfect balance of taking care of things that do not need my attention and protecting my time, but, when needed, escalating those things that do require my attention. He is very engaged with his teams, cooperates well with other teams and know how to get projects completed with quality on a deadline. In short, Ravi is a very valuable, hands-on Engineering Director in our organization."