Raghavan Kalkunte

About Raghavan Kalkunte

20+ years’ experience in leading teams of more than 145 on a global scale and cost-effectively controlling large budgets of more than $30M. Solid expertise in software development, professional services, product releases, quality assurance, cross-functional team coordination, market strategy, practice expansion, and best practice creation. Formed, engaged, and helmed large, high-performance teams across North America and Asia; skilled at connecting with, influencing, and managing technical staff from diverse cultural backgrounds. Possess sharp executive-level presentation skills and unwavering confidence; able to persuasively secure buy-in and support from top-level leadership, peers, staff, and customers. Able to engage with key stakeholders to refine strategies to help drive business goals. Excel at product strategy, product development, Agile methodology, quality management, tools and DevOps transformations, and 3rd party open source governance. Constantly focus on optimizing product security, performance, reliability, scalability, and compliance. Excellent talent in guiding software engineering initiatives to meet quality, competitive, cost, efficiency, and other critical objectives; committed to collaboration and leading-edge innovation. Consummate strengths in software development and professional services leadership; attained nearly 90% billability and up to 120% utilization.

Experience

1. Director, Cx Engineering & Automation

   NetApp

   Oct 2020 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Customer Experience Engineering - Digital Sales Enablement• NetApp is driving a modernized & simplified digital sales experience for customers partners & distributors• Leading engineering team building next generation Digital Sales Enablement Platform• This digital platform generates qualified leads for Sales, Partners & Distributors• Commercial customers benefit from getting instant product recommendation, configurations & collateralCustomer Experience Automation• Customer Experience Automation is a newly built organization to help support & transform how NetApp delivers value to customers & partners via product portfolio automation• Rapidly build & deliver automation solutions for customers to improve productivity & ROI • As an automation practice leader, brought in engineering best practices into professional services to meet business critical KPIs• Redefine success for PS & Field organizations by bringing in new perspective on automation and introducing modern tools• Establish best in class engineering practices to rapidly deliver automation at enterprise quality level• Support different workflow automation needs of diverse industries such a healthcare, banking, automotive & other industries

Education

• University of Arizona

  MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Bangalore University

  B.E., Electronics and Communications

Skills

• Start-Ups
• Integration
• Automation
• Ethernet
• Test Automation
• System Architecture
• Software Development
• Telecommunications
• Voip
• Embedded Systems
• Data Center
• Ip
• Agile Methodologies
• Pre-Sales
• Software Engineering
• Networking
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Quality Assurance
• Vendor Management
• Routing
• Lte
• Product Management
• Network Design
• Tcp/Ip
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Cloud Computing
• Professional Services
• Mpls
• Sip
• Testing