Rajesh Nair

About Rajesh Nair

Leading the technological transformation at Pivot Systems, my role encompasses orchestrating global software development and operations, with a focus on pioneering AI/ML innovations. At the helm, we\'ve cultivated robust partnerships, enabling the delivery of cutting-edge software solutions to a broad client base. Our team\'s expertise in AI/ML, cloud services, and SaaS is foundational to our success.My tenure as CEO at Telyads, Inc. honed my strategic and entrepreneurial skills, achieving a triumphant 300% return for investors through the development and sale of an advanced advertising platform. This venture underscored my commitment to leveraging technology for scalable growth and customer acquisition, bolstered by my comprehensive understanding of global market dynamics and technical trends.With over 30 years of broad experience in the Information Technology industry, has built multiple companies from inception, multiple rounds of funding through successful exit. Experienced in P&L, M&A, spin off, pivoting and restructuring.Technology Leader in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence including Generative AI. Expert in building foundational models, fine tuning, re-training, re-rank/LoRa, prompt engineering, vector databases and Retrieval Augmented Generation.Built and managed Technology companies for software products and services with over 400 employees. Well versed with the latest software development trends, tools, platforms and methodologies. Experienced in emerging technologies and options, business imperatives, customer needs, marketplace and competitive trends into effective product engineering. Strategic alliances, technology partnerships, vendor relations, negotiations, customer and sales support, formulating and executing operating strategies. Well versed in standardization, compliance and certification requirements and processes including ISO and cyber security. Proficiency with standard engineering processes and policies. Complete software life cycle, including software systems analysis and design, build vs. buy, development, QA, deployment, documentation, sustaining and support. Strong experience in building and managing organizations in across USA and setting up foreign offices, especially creating and managing software development centers in India. Well-connected in Silicon Valley and coast to coast with business leaders, civic groups, elected officials and consulates of India though long and active social and business leadership.

Experience

1. Chief Technology Officer

   Pivot Systems

   Jan 2018 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Running the entire global software development and technology operations of the company including its AI/ML division. Leading Software Engineering, Technology, Sales and customer support engineering, IT strategy and infrastructure and Devops at the global level. Business and Engineering leadership for execution and timely delivery of software projects to over 70 customers including American Airlines, Amex, AT & T, Blue Cross, Capital One, Cisco, E*Trade, Hitachi, LiveOps, Microsoft, Strateq Health, UPS etc.* Heading an Engineering division of over 200 software engineering professionals * Created an AI/ML division of 150 plus software engineers to service 40+ customers with AI tech * P&L responsibility - increased global revenue from $6M to over $50M * Completed more than software projects, 94% within time and budget * Developed multiple SaaS systems with millions of users and over 2B annual transactions * Developed massive data systems with petabytes of network storage * Grew the business from 18 to over 70 customers across three continents * Scaled the company from 90 to over 250 employees across four countries * Created a new cloud services division that grew to bring in more than 30% of the revenue * Created partnerships with over 20 major companies * Developed media server software and sold it to Samsung * Developed a video picture frame system and sold it to NeoMagic * Developed a video streaming server cloud and sold it to Cisco Systems * Developed an enterprise ASR/IVR cloud service for Dynamics CRM and sold it to Microsoft

Education

• College of Engineering Trivandrum

  BS, Computer Science & Engineering

• San José State University

  MS, Engineering

• San José State University

  MBA