Consulting Director of Engineering (Optimization, Innovation, Clean Code Coaching)
Raja has been establishing new software industry standards as a seasoned Director Engineering, boasting over two decades of experience in revival of legacy & modern software products and projects suffering with obesity due to piled up techical debt . He is particularly skilled at guiding teams on non-functional requirements (NFRs), which is essential for SaaS and Cloud products that aim for scale of revenue by adding 1000 to 10k to millions of paying customers. As a veteran risk-taker, Raja has effectively rescued billion-dollar products from the challenges posed by technical debt, hiring/retention challenges & toxic culture. He adheres to the philosophy that "CODE encompasses everything" - to address issues ranging from organizational politics and customer frustrations, to enhancing even the junior team productivity. For leaders feeling overwhelmed by poor engineering outcomes, Raja can instantly own the current risks as 'Code Doctor' and would start to treat engineering to improve the #CodeHealth. He holds international patents and was honored with a S$50,000 Nokia award for his groundbreaking work on secure financial transactions using the One-Time Password (OTP) method, which took the industry 14 years to start embracing it. In all Raja is an exceptional leader & Innovator who effectively navigates the current state of engineering execution complexity (chaos/fears/fires) and simplifies (fixes) it incrementally, week by week, month on month, to save millions of $ and to reduce CxOs/leadership stress. Raja's clients are CISCO, NDS, Virtusa, Honeywell, Indian Railways (through Boradvision), Quicksand, Bounce, Certis, Dhiway, Logix, Manthan Systems, etc.. C-suite leaders: Drowning in engineering chaos?, Trade engineering nightmares for innovation breakthroughs. My elite technical consultancy delivers rapid transformation through surgical interventions.