Rich T Rajkumar

Rich T Rajkumar Email and Phone Number

EngineeringOps & TPM Head @
Rich T Rajkumar's Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States, United States
Rich T Rajkumar's Contact Details

Rich T Rajkumar personal email

Rich T Rajkumar phone numbers

About Rich T Rajkumar

Engineering & TPM Leader: A software engineer transitioned to a TPM and Engineering-Operations leader, I bring expertise in delivering customer-centric solutions and driving complex, 10x scale strategic and technical programs with global orgs of 300-1500 people. Certified as an OCI cloud architect, I excel in design thinking, platform, infrastructure, and cloud engineering. My Superpowers:1. Outcome-driven E2E owner: Deliver with grit and impact.2. Strategic Collaborator: Enable and influence teams effectively.3. Accountable Leader: Intrapreneur and talent builder who leads with responsibility.4. Executive Communicator: Articulate in conveying ideas, strategies and outcomes.My Interests:1. AI GPU/HPC/Networking/Platform/Datacenter/SW defined Infrastructure2. HA & Fault Tolerance/MLOps/Reliability Engg/Observability/TelemetryTechnical Strength and Innovation:My journey began in software engineering, honing skills in coding, system design, and problem-solving, I bridge development and operations seamlessly. Integrating engineering efficiencies with operational excellence, I utilize Agile and SAFe practices for precise project execution aligned with business goals.Strategic Vision and Execution:Aligning technical initiatives with business objectives, I pioneered Agile transformations at PayPal and Visa. Fostering transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement, these transformations resulted in scalable product development, over 85% completion rates using key KPIs, and enhanced team efficiency. and enhanced team efficiency.Leadership and Impact:As a Senior Manager at PayPal, a Director at Visa & eBay and an IC Leader at OCI now, I lead with authenticity and integrity. Building PMOs that promote cross-domain collaboration, I drove all things critical engineering delivery & operations for the org. Leading shift-left and engineering excellence initiatives, I minimized large-scale-events and improved efficiency. By implementing customer-centric engineering strategies and operations, I saved 300% in onboarding time and achieved outcomes measured by KPIs and CSAT.Trusted Partner and Advisor:As a TPM/Engg-Ops leader and CoS, I thrive in strategic execution and engineering delivery. I built PDLC process structures enabling stakeholder partnerships, result in roadmap, risk matrix, unblock issues enable execution and measure KPIs with transparent resource and capacity management. I drive RoB, OKR, MBR/QBR, risk audit & remediation and maintain strategic alignment.Personal Philosophy:I constantly strive to better my last version.

Rich T Rajkumar's Current Company Details
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(Oci)

EngineeringOps & TPM Head
Rich T Rajkumar Work Experience Details
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(Oci)
    Tpm Leader(Incl Chief Of Staff Responsibilities To Svp/Vpe)
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(Oci) 2021 - Present
    2024~Present: TPM leader for multiple programs in the Organization's portfolio: Hyperscale Datacenters, Multicloud/Site Expansions, AI Infra/GPU Sites(Liquid/Air cooled), Datacenter Software Engineering and DC Monitoring, Special Projects/Special Customers2021~2024: OCI Core Networking, Network Monitoring Portfolio of Programs, Network Access for Zero Trust, drove weekly EnggOps across 20+ Core Services2024~Present: Bar Raiser for OCI, across many domains for technical and strategic IC/Leadership hiring
  • Startups/Advisor
    3X Startup Founder/Advisor
    Startups/Advisor 2015 - Present
    + Co-founder of Triune labs, experimenting on data, cognition & AI(2023~) + Advisor for a stealth mode Fintech company(2021-2023)+ Program Mgmt Advisor for Software defined Power Mgmt at Virtual Power Systems(2020) + Program/Product Mgmt Advisor for building Fraud/Risk/AML solutions at Consilienz(2020)+ Co-founder at Dif.rent building digital rental platform for UK & Middle East(2019)+ Co-founder WebApp/Digital Concepts for Wellness companies(2016-2020) + People coaching & leadership development(pro bono consulting)
  • Linkedin
    Tpm Leader, Data Infrastructure/Sre
    Linkedin 2020 - 2021
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    Hired to lead a multi-quarter company-wide portfolio of: data, infrastructure, site reliability engineering and migration to Azure cloud+ Created roadmap strategy for annual/mid-year planning. Created execution of roadmap plans, maintain backlogs to ensure forward momentum of OKRs and manage dependencies for Data/SRE team while assessing, mitigating risks & program conflicts to establish resolution path for features to production+ Establish strategic partnership with cross-functional leads to develop/manage execution planLed fabrics/groups/regions using IaC automating fab builds using Airflow, then with TaaS uber DAG for 150 service(owners), collaborating with 7 TPM leads to deliver prod fabric and enterprise integration fabrics + Lead LinkedIn Blueshift lift-adapt-shift to Azure Regions(exiting datacenter) build reliable, highly available, scalable fabric groups to manage change across multi-product and teams to resolve, track and scale releases. Foster autonomy and transparency through best practices for managing change, incidents, SRE, BCP/DR & releasesAreas of Focus: Azure, Fabric buildout, Terraform, Airflow, Big data platform, Hadoop, Data Ingestion, Flow & Analytics, AI Search, Relevance
    View
  • Ebay
    Director Of Tpm, Structured Data
    Ebay 2019 - 2020
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Recruited to head a global TPM team, mentor, lead and create career paths, while managing go-to-market launches influenced by data/decision science, BU/customer experience, and ML/AI.+ Headed top 3 customer-centric, company-wide technical programs and initiatives valued at $2B GMV, planning and executing delivery with my team of product owners influencing domains across eBay. Mentored a global team of TPMs.+ Improved the product development process structure and deployment practice, efforts resulted in better program visibility, allowing an educated and metrics-driven change management process. + Aligned go-to-market strategies with business development efforts, as an outcome connected all product releases with go-to-launch campaigns and aligned the monthly operational input metrics. + Included responsibility of Chief of Staff for the 600+ organization product, engineering and data operations driving the annual product operational roadmap and forecast cohesively with central planning and quarterly and monthly program/operating reviews. Areas of Focus: structured data, ML/AI, SEO/search, analytics, data/decision science, localization, configuration ops, fraud & risk, buyer/seller/search e-commerce global customer experience.
    View
  • Visa
    Director Of Tpm, Developer Platform & Solutions Engineering
    Visa Feb 2017 - Nov 2019
    Foster City, California, Us
    Promoted to build and grow a large global team of Integration Engineers, PMs/TPMs leading and actively optimizing all program management aspects of this customer-centric integration solutions organization providing checkout, digital wallets, and other Visa payment products. Go-to market launch management and sales pipeline integration with Salesforce marketing. High-profile partner clients included: Google, Apple, Samsung, Facebook, Square, Braintree, Venmo, PayPal, Intuit, Ayden, Fiserv, and Uber.+ Built foundation use cases and integration solutions resulting in strengthened ISE output and effectiveness by building and enhancing four major quadrants: 1. Integration Engineering (Release Integration testing, Performance testing) 2. Tools and Solutions3. AI/KB Integration Guides4. Voice of the Customer+ As Chief of Staff, defined strategies, integration best practices, and optimal frameworks to ensure a scalable process for customer ecosystems, on-boarding playbook, regional nuances, global readiness, client training, tech briefings, consultations, certifications, AI knowledge base, and client self-service improvements and utilities. + Launched numerous operational excellence initiatives in support of critical Visa digital products and solutions, including: 1-Day Integration, Game Day, Voice of Customer and developer platforms. + Built a customer-centric engineering model that led to CCE10% program for engineers that bolstered staff knowledge on customer journeys and common pain points. + Enabled shift-left design thinking by continuously scaling quality, release integrations, tools and developer solutions. Mentored and coached a team of engineers, technical account managers and program managers. Expanded PMO to: Quality Eng, Integration, SRE, Tools & Solutions, Release, Performance Eng & Developer Efficiency, Customer Playbook Areas of focus: Web UI, Developer Platform, RESTful APIs, SDK, iOS, Android, Lean & Six Sigma.
    View
  • Visa
    Director Tpm Consulting~ Platform Engineering Operations, Security, Rm/Re
    Visa Apr 2015 - May 2017
    Foster City, California, Us
    Supported Head of Platform & Digital Services portfolio of 600+ resources in 4 location with high profile, big rocks, transformation, technical strategic initiatives, center of engineering excellence delivery, global talent, and business transformation for the global digital and mobile payments engineering core platform, engineering operational excellence and services, infrastructure, merchant/partner integration and support, site reliability engineering, high availability, automation and deployment, container, docker, tco, simplified operations vs security, agility, quality, CI/CD, release, problem & change mgmt, performance, operational excellence, training, tools, metrics, talent building and governance. Mentor PMs, RMs, Engineering teams.+ Led and owned Monthly Operational Measures for SVP of the Technology Function. Led and owned the VP of Platform's All Hands, Leadership Offsite, Employee Engagement, Developer Catalyst Programs like Game Day, Global Staff agenda and cadence., Bi-weekly Portfolio review and Quarterly Technology Review.+ Partnering across the company: with Product, Engineering, Commercialization, BusDev, Marketing, Risk & Compliance, Ops. Examples include Checkout, Tokens, Mobile Platform, Push Payments, Chip Solutions, Installments, Digital Issuance, Real Time Payments, Developer Platform, everything from web and mobile to IoT, Wearables and Connected devices.+ Released a One-Click cloud-based auto-provisioning, PaaS, IaaS, Image & Configuration system, Database, Compute as Auto-deployment, OPERA as SRE monitoring and testing capabilities for 10K Global Developers+ Created a CI/CD practice for all engineering deliveries aligned with release management, and risk management methodologies to remove blockers and challenges. Aligned with Delivery-on-Demand/GTM
    View
  • Paypal
    Principal Tpm~ Onboarding Platform, Risk & Compliance
    Paypal Jan 2013 - Apr 2015
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    2013-2015: Senior Leader for Credit, Merchant On-boarding Platform: Global Payments, Data, Risk & Compliance, M&A Braintree Integration, managed road-map with 5 X-Vertical PM/Architects/Dev Head Directors, portfolio & governance for ten plus(turned around from Storming to Performing in 90 days, by identifying and transforming the KPIs) global Agile Delivery teams. + In 2014 supported a large complex X-functional, Payments Acceptance Program while integrating with Payments Platform, Merchant Experience, On-boarding, Risk, Compliance, Global Operations, Marketing and Legal. Managed several project managers and delivery staff. + Partner in Business Transformation Council for Agile Strategy, Planning, Execution, Metrics and Maturity Model+ Established and managed Release, Change & Problem mgmt in alignment with NOC & Release Calendar. Managed teams and held partners accountable for gates, escalations, risk and mitigations. + Agile Evangelist. Coached Release Planning, Scrums(In Scaled Agile Framework). PDLC Champion for Business, Product and Engg. Council member. Reviewed MBR, QBR with Stakeholders and Execs. GSD Culture!
    View
  • Paypal
    Sr Manager, Tpm~ Infrastructure, Platform & Engineeringops
    Paypal Jan 2008 - Jan 2013
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    2008-2013: Senior PMO & BusOps Leader/Chief of Staff for Platform as a Service, Data center, Engineering Ops, Core Payment & Merchant Services. COE & Agile Technology Transformation, supported a large complex multi year IaaS and PaaS initiative in support of Continuous Availability & Scalability, using Cloud, Virtualization, Database Engg, Systems Engg, SAN/NAS Storage, Capacity Planning, Technology Refresh, Hypervisor, Quality and Performance with 45M Portfolio. + Large portfolio YOY of $126M in CapEx & OpEx in total aligned strategically with global (NA, EU, APAC) planning and XL funding+ Managed several project managers and delivery staff. M&A for Bill Me Later/PayPal and Verisign. Chief of Staff. PMO COE; Six Sigma Projects; Operational Excellence;+ 3 YR Strategic Planning & Portfolio, managed Quarterly Planning, Annual Planning Cycles. Developed, tracked, reported CapEx and OpEx, Monthly Run-rate, Variances, 270+ Headcount(with BU’s FA) and Infrastructure Capacity per ITIL practices and built a CMDB for PayPal’s IT assets, also Business Continuity. MBR, QBR with SVP, VP and Stakeholders. + Supported OE efforts of PLC 1.1/1.2 and PMO Governance saving $3M at the Inc level in support of OE Savings. Green belt OE initiatives and optimized HW Provisioning Cycle time from 6-8 weeks to 30-40 mins in testing and production by 3000%+ Developed in partnership with HR Partner, innovative ways to talent management and ensure succession planning. Mentored and coached PMs, Delivery managers, OE Specialists, and Engineering staff supporting the program success.
    View
  • Paypal
    Staff Tpm, Infrastructure Platform & Engineering Operations
    Paypal Apr 2007 - Dec 2007
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    2007: PMO Staff supporting governance and delivery of large M&A like Verisign/PayPal, Bill me Later/PayPal portfolios of $126M aligned strategically with global(NA, EU, APAC) planning and XL funding.
    View
  • Hops International, Inc.
    Director Project-Professional Services
    Hops International, Inc. 2006 - 2007
    Us
    Program Director who managed strategy, planning and execution(with the team of 6 program managers and business analysts) for Kaiser/HOPS portfolio in support of fraud and risk data recovery related programs and projects with $20M worth recovery.
    View
  • Cashedge Inc (Now Fiserv)
    Senior Manager Solutions Architect
    Cashedge Inc (Now Fiserv) 2004 - 2006
    Sr Manager Projects/Product Integration with the global team(created the team consisting of product, engineering and delivery personnel) responsible for engagement, delivery, customer success, end-to-end communications in a global business model with XL to XXL funds in support of premium FIs such as HSBC, BofA, Citibank, DCU, Countrywide and DI. Managed a team of integration specialists and projects delivery managers.
  • Sap Ariba
    Product Mgr/Solutions Architect
    Sap Ariba 2000 - 2004
    Waldorf, De
    Principal Staff in support of Customer Advocacy Program Office, responsible for Engg Solutions and Client Integration Services. Led a Global Engg team in support of Client Engagements and Services. Responsible partner in creating a global org.
    View
  • Cambridge Technology Partners
    Solutions Architect
    Cambridge Technology Partners 1996 - 2000
    Engaged in Scope, Design & Development. Managed a team of Engineers and Analysts in support of various engagements with HP, Franklin Templeton, Sybase for many CRM software. Strong experience with customer integrations and services.

Rich T Rajkumar Skills

Agile Methodologies Sdlc Integration Program Management Cloud Computing Vendor Management Cross Functional Team Leadership Management Leadership Software Development Agile Project Management Business Intelligence Project Management Analytics Web Services Team Management Saas Software Project Management Crm Mobile Devices Requirements Analysis Pmo Pmp Scrum Xml Cross Functional Coordination Stakeholder Management Sharepoint Ms Project Disaster Recovery Data Center And Infrastructure Delivery Software Development Life Cycle Visio Data Warehousing Infrastructure Management Programme Governance

Rich T Rajkumar Education Details

  • University Of Arkansas At Little Rock
    University Of Arkansas At Little Rock
    Computer & Information Science: In Data Ai Ml
  • Cornell University
    Cornell University
    Executive Education
  • O'Reily School Of Technology
    O'Reily School Of Technology
    Ml & Analytics
  • St. Joseph'S College | Bharathidasan University
    St. Joseph'S College | Bharathidasan University
    Computer Science
  • Don Bosco High School, India
    Don Bosco High School, India

Frequently Asked Questions about Rich T Rajkumar

What company does Rich T Rajkumar work for?

Rich T Rajkumar works for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(Oci)

What is Rich T Rajkumar's role at the current company?

Rich T Rajkumar's current role is EngineeringOps & TPM Head.

What is Rich T Rajkumar's email address?

Rich T Rajkumar's email address is ri****@****ail.com

What is Rich T Rajkumar's direct phone number?

Rich T Rajkumar's direct phone number is +151036*****

What schools did Rich T Rajkumar attend?

Rich T Rajkumar attended University Of Arkansas At Little Rock, Cornell University, O'reily School Of Technology, St. Joseph's College | Bharathidasan University, Don Bosco High School, India.

What are some of Rich T Rajkumar's interests?

Rich T Rajkumar has interest in Science And Technology, Children, Education, Health.

What skills is Rich T Rajkumar known for?

Rich T Rajkumar has skills like Agile Methodologies, Sdlc, Integration, Program Management, Cloud Computing, Vendor Management, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Management, Leadership, Software Development, Agile Project Management, Business Intelligence.

Free Chrome Extension

Find emails, phones & company data instantly

Find verified emails from LinkedIn profiles
Get direct phone numbers & mobile contacts
Access company data & employee information
Works directly on LinkedIn - no copy/paste needed
Get Chrome Extension - Free

Aero Online

Your AI prospecting assistant

Download 750 million emails and 100 million phone numbers

Access emails and phone numbers of over 750 million business users. Instantly download verified profiles using 20+ filters, including location, job title, company, function, and industry.