Raghu Akkihalli
- Role
- Director, Software Development at Aspen Technology
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Raghu Akkihalli
Seasoned Software Development Leader with 27+ years of experience driving enterprise…
Experience
Director, Software Development
Mar 2017 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US
Led cross-functional engineering organizations across multiple agile teams, delivering data-driven platforms spanning data warehousing and historian technologies, analytics, visualization, asset-centric modeling and maintenance, and AI-enabled capabilities.* Brought deep hands-on engineering leadership across the full software development lifecycle, including extensive experience building, modernizing, and operating platforms alongside enterprise on-premise systems.* Spearheaded the modernization of legacy platforms into platform-independent, microservice-based architectures, significantly improving deployment efficiency, usability, scalability, and business value.* Drove the adoption and scaling of end-to-end DevOps engineering practices, including CI/CD automation and release management, to improve delivery velocity, reliability, and operational maturity.* Owned production operations and reliability for mission-critical platforms, with accountability for uptime, performance, security, and customer outcomes.* Established and enforced engineering standards, development policies, and governance frameworks aligned with enterprise security, compliance, and data-privacy requirements (ISO, SOC, GDPR), in close partnership with security and risk teams.* Partnered closely with product management, quality engineering, and field organizations to ensure delivery excellence, customer alignment, and continuous improvement across the lifecycle.
Skills
- Business Intelligence
- Databases
- Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
- Agile Methodologies
- IT Strategy
- Db2
- Vaadin
- Data Warehousing
- Oracle
- Management
- Sdlc
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
- Reporting
- Leadership
- Sql
- Enterprise Architecture
- Integration
- Pre-Sales
- Solution Architecture
- Soa
- Requirements Analysis
- Cloud Computing
- Software Project Management
- Software Development
- Ad Hoc Reporting
- Project Portfolio Management
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