Rameshkumar Garikipati

About Rameshkumar Garikipati

Technology & AI leader with a solid track record of setting up & transforming engineering organisations for rapid growth, global expansion, quick turnaround and efficiency. Currently working as Site Leader and Director of Engineering at Oracle Infrastructure GBU- Hyderabad shepherding over 450 resources. Certified(ISB-Hyderabad) Digital transformation leader with proven record of innovation(with patents), change management and execution excellence with teams in India, Australia, US and Europe. Breadth of general management experience ranging from acquisition of new technology to integration and growth of both the product and people. Led end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI assistants and agentic solutions, integrating seamlessly across product modules/platforms to drive intelligent automation, scalable adoption, and an improved user experience aligned with cloud best practices.Built and evangelised high-impact AI proof-of-concepts—including an AI-driven Root Cause Analysis (RCA) agent to reduce downtime and engineering effort—while elevating AI engineering maturity through AI-enabled SDLC improvements and shift-left quality via AI-driven test automation and increased unit test coverage.Managing product portfolio of over 50 Mn$ revenue and leading teams with high performing Architects, strategy & Product Management leads, QA and Managers, collaborating with stakeholders & customers across the globe. Currently having end to end ownership of the industries best of construction management softwares - 6 products (4 of them being completely cloud based SAAS solutions). Few of the major recent accomplishments include, migration of multiple products from different clouds to OCI, breaking a large monolithic service into several MSP services,Optimising storage systems, creating service template for standardisation etc.Earlier led and managed oracle portfolio management software working with CXO suite of the world’s top companies including federal agencies. Started my career with GE, where I extended my Master\'s thesis to flow blown Simulation platform(Digital Twin) for power plants, for optimising the control parameters and enhancing operator training experiences. Leveraged distributed computing concepts using GE Fanuc’s fibre optic RFM VMIC technology.Specialties: Product Planning & Engineering, Site Leadership, Construction and Engineering Software Expert, Portfolio and Project Management Specialist, Six sigma Green Belt, BSI Kitemark Certification, Simulation platforms, Integrating & onboarding new tech, Cloud, SAAS, Web Applications & Services.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Oracle

   Jun 2021 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Built several IDC development teams from scratch, which include recruitment, mentoring through both more general software engineering practices and product specific knowhow, and orchestrating their efforts to a uniform company goal.Lead & successfully completed the transition of the several products ownership ranging from product strategy, architecture and design, Development, sustenance, security, performance, release & delivery management - from multiple geographies to the India Development Center.Suite of Products, I manage - Aconex : Document process and management(Workflows, Supplier Documents), Aconex For Outlook, LocalCopyProjectArchive(LCPA), Handover and Smart Manuals. Primavera Portfolio Management, Primavera Risk Analysis, Capital Planning and Investment Control, OMB, Textura Submittal Exchange(Construction document management) & GradeBeam(Bid Management), Conject MI (Mobile Inspection), Conject PC (Project Controls).Primary Responsibilities include Product Strategy, Team Management, Development, Sustenance, QA, Performance, Certification & Security, Release & Delivery Management.Additionally managing campus relations including campus hiring, internships etc, collaborating with internal operations and facilities teams etc.

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH)

  B Tech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

• Indian School of Business

  Chief Digital and AI Officer Programme, Business Administration and Management, General

• KMSM Sai Public School, Vijayawada

  Higher Secondary., All Basics

• Government Polytechnic, Vijayawada

  Diploma, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

• National Institute of Technology Karnataka

  M Tech, Power & Energy Systems

Skills

• Desktop Applications, UI Development
• Distributed Systems
• Software Project Management
• Simulations
• Sql
• Asp.net
• Portfolio Management
• C
• Software Engineering
• Cloud Applications
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Automation
• Unix
• Oracle 9i
• C# .net
• C++
• Six Sigma
• Testing
• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• Multithreading
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Project Management
• Test Automation
• Software Design
• Web Applications
• Java
• Rally
• Sdlc
• Xml
• Agile Methodologies
• Applications
• Embedded Systems