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Rajaram Viswanathan

Rajaram Viswanathan

Staff Engineer 2
Bengaluru

Summary

Visionary engineering leader with 21+ years of experience building, scaling, and evolving enterprise-grade platforms, cloud-native systems, and zero-to-one observability products. Adept at leading architecture and execution across complex, distributed environments—delivering highly available, performant, and customer-centric solutions across SaaS, infrastructure, and multi-tenant ecosystems. Trusted as a technical strategist, hands-on architect, and code-quality evangelist. Passionate about simplifying complexity, enabling team excellence, and shaping system design with precision, scalability, and longevity in mind. Patent holder, frequent innovation awardee, and relentless execution driver.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Staff Engineer 2

VMware by Broadcom
Bengaluru
06.2021 - 06.2025
  • Designed VMware’s next-gen observability platform for large-scale private cloud telemetry—analogous to CloudWatch/Datadog for on-prem.
  • Architected hybrid ingestion pipelines supporting Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and proprietary formats from vCenter/ESXi.
  • Achieved 7× reduction in memory footprint (2 GB →
  • Developed petabyte-scale Kafka → Stream → Wavefront pipelines, sustaining 300k+ PPS.
  • Built ClickHouse-backed PromQL query service, translating PromQL into SQL using ANTLR4—powering analytics in the VCF Ops console.
  • Integrated NVIDIA GPU observability for Private AI Foundation workloads, enhancing visibility for critical AI workloads.
  • Designed a fleet-level metrics aggregation layer, combining instance-local storage with coarse-grained FSDB sync and laying groundwork for continuous streaming to a central ClickHouse via Kafka Connect.
  • Enabled dynamic scaling across 2500+ ESXi nodes leveraging Kubernetes-scaled collection architecture.

Staff Engineer

Intuit
Bengaluru
01.2020 - 06.2021
  • Scaled Intuit’s multi-tenant platform to handle millions of daily requests by architecting multi–swim lane Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS.
  • Delivered OpenTelemetry-based monitoring and improved platform resiliency.
  • Reduced TP99 latencies to
  • Drove reusable partner integration patterns supporting multi-billion-dollar revenue streams.

Senior Principal Engineer

Xactly Technologies
Bengaluru
11.2015 - 01.2020
  • Built high-throughput, microservice-based financial computation systems with 10× performance gains.
  • Delivered Spring Boot/Kafka-based email and workflow engines with audit tracking.
  • Led unified data-access architecture spanning multiple databases.
  • Automated deployments using Chef, CI/CD, and modular design principles.

Principal Engineer

SuccessFactors, An SAP company
Bengaluru
11.2010 - 10.2015
  • Invented and productized Upgrade Center—now a flagship product (USPTO patent holder).
  • Developed zero-cost onboarding tools and intuitive UX enhancements, including compensation statements and guided tutorials.
  • SAP DKom speaker and multi-award winner (You DARE, GEM, Leads with Heart).

Engineering Specialist

webMethods(now Software AG)
Bengaluru
07.2006 - 10.2010
  • Migrated legacy apps to Eclipse IDE plugins; contributed to Trading Networks and MWS.
  • Delivered reusable JSF components and accelerated enterprise portal development.

Software Engineer

Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
Bengaluru
03.2004 - 06.2006
  • Graduated from Trilogy bootcamp; implemented high-SLA configurations for Sun Microsystems.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Bharathiar University
Coimbatore, Tamilnadu
05.1999 - 05.2003

Skills

JAVA

SPRING

POSTGRES

KAFKA

GIT

SPRINGCLOUD

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

MICROSERVICES

DATASTRUCTURES

ALGORITHMS

AWS

K8S

GO

Accomplishments

  • USPTO Patent – Granted for innovative observability product (Upgrade Center)
  • Hackathon Wins – Multiple-time winner (Intuit, SAP) with ideas fast-tracked to product
  • Leadership Awards – Courage, Learn Fast, You DARE, and GEM for cross-org impact and infrastructure excellence
  • Conference Speaker – Featured at SAP DKom for platform architecture and product insights
  • Vista Hackathon Finalist – Selected for innovation and strategic product alignment

Conferences Courses

  • Architecting on AWS – Amazon Web Services, 2020 Hands-on training in designing scalable, secure cloud architectures using core AWS services
  • Container Conference – CodeOps, 2018 Developer-focused sessions on Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration strategies
  • Serverless Summit – CodeOps, 2017 Exploration of AWS Lambda, event-driven architecture, and real-world serverless implementations

Timeline

Staff Engineer 2

VMware by Broadcom
06.2021 - 06.2025

Staff Engineer

Intuit
01.2020 - 06.2021

Senior Principal Engineer

Xactly Technologies
11.2015 - 01.2020

Principal Engineer

SuccessFactors, An SAP company
11.2010 - 10.2015

Engineering Specialist

webMethods(now Software AG)
07.2006 - 10.2010

Software Engineer

Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
03.2004 - 06.2006

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Bharathiar University
05.1999 - 05.2003

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