# Ravi Ramachandran

> Building the most Reliable Hyperscale Cloud @ Google | Proven AI Savvy Product Leader | Highly performant Cloud Infra | Digital Native, Enterprise, FinTech, Service Provider markets | Berkeley MBA

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/raviramachandran

Obsessed with customer success, I specialize in bringing game-changing 0-1 hardware and software products to life. As a versatile Product and Technology executive with 20+ years of experience across 10+ product life cycles, I leverage a powerful blend of product management, engineering, and operational expertise to deliver impact. From Serial Entrepreneurship to Fortune 100 Hyperscaler leadership, I have consistently delivered measurable business value – significant revenue & profit growth, alongside transformative business model innovations – all validated by a strong chorus of Net-promoting customer advocates.

✦  𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲-𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿
Data-driven. Navigated multiple boom-and-bust market cycles. Successful more-wood-behind-fewer-arrow decisions
✦ 𝗘𝗻𝗱-𝘁𝗼-𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺-𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲 
Break HW/SW silos and deliver optimal customer value on the Cloud and Edge
✦ 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘁𝗵 & 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗵
Hyperscale Cloud, Enterprise, Digital Native, Service Provider, FinTech,  Network Infra, Radio Access networks
✦ 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲
         ↳ Infrastructure for AI, Cloud HW/SW infrastructure, Data Centers, Edge, and Heterogeneous compute.
         ↳ HW Offload/Accelerated solutions
         ↳ Components (ASICs, CPU, IPU/DPU, GPU, Memory), Transport (NVMe(-OF), RDMA, RoCE),  Thermal management.
✦ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿, 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿, 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵, 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿
History of attracting, nurturing, and retaining cross-functional and global product management and engineering talent

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀

✦ 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱: Product portfolio that enables delivering best-in-class Infra reliability adopted by >95% of 1P revenue Business units. Successful product launches to gain nearly 10,000 customers in < 1 year.
✦ 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀: Co-founded & led  ground breaking predictive AI/ML SaaS startup to capitalize on a $8B+ FinTech market 
✦ 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗰𝗼𝗺: Transformed business model to open opportunity to catapult revenue from $40M to $180M
✦ 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰: Established market leadership with 20% power & cost advantage to pioneer first C-RAN deployments
✦ 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻: Co-founded and grew company to a $30M ARR, resulting in a $220M acquisition by NetLogic

I'm always eager to connect with innovative leaders, potential collaborators, and tech professionals. Feel free to reach out and connect!

## Work Experience
### Head of Customer Centric Reliability Platforms @ Google
Jan 2021 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Built, scaled, and aligned a PM organization with a vision to establish Google Cloud as the benchmark for reliability – a cornerstone of customer trust, revenue growth, and competitive differentiation in the Hyper scale Cloud market.  

My role involves defining the reliability product strategy, influencing investments across GCP, and overseeing a portfolio of 10 core products including Fast Datacenter Turnup, Telemetry, Alerting, Reliability Risk Management, and AI-powered Incident Communication.

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 & 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁

❖ Delivered on stretch KPIs by driving collaborative cross-functional alignment across 15+ business units and 160+  IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and CaaS products
❖ Shaped product portfolio adopted by >95% of GCP's first-party revenue contributors to empower Google Cloud deliver industry-leading infrastructure reliability
❖ Launched Google Personalized Service Health and drove adoption to 1000s of customers in <1y with a low-budget GTM strategy underscored by Product Led Growth strategies (Public Endorsement Examples).
❖ Championed AI integrations. Launched Google’s first Machine driven alerts to deliver a 75% reduction in customer’s initial response time to GCP disruptions to minimize impact to their business
❖ Lead product efforts to accelerate time to revenue and reduce idle capacity by speeding up software infrastructure turnup time from months to weeks across 5+ datacenter types 
❖ Direct contributor to Google’s Gartner Magic Quadrant results
❖ Maintained consistently high People Manager Scores and retention rates through effective culture and talent development

### Co-founder & Vice President Of Products @ Cyber Atomics, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | San Ramon, California, United States
Co-founded and launched Cyber Atomics, a pioneering cloud-based predictive AI/ML SaaS startup delivering breakthroughs in explainable AI tailored for the FinTech, Insurance, and Risk Management industries. Secured crucial seed funding and drove the foundational stages, including crafting the business case, conducting in-depth market/customer/competitor research to validate product-market fit, and defining a differentiated product strategy in a competitive landscape. 

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 & 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁

❖ Played critical role in raising seed venture investment to launch the company.

❖ Led the successful launch of Cyber Atomics' core multi-asset price predictor, landing a pivotal proof-of-concept with a top-tier high-frequency trading customer by centering the value proposition on solving key challenges around scarce edge compute resources and model explainability.

❖ Doubled the Total Addressable Market (TAM) while simultaneously cutting R&D investment by strategically sharpening the company's focus exclusively on the $8B+ FinTech vertical, driving single-minded execution.

❖ Optimized a multi-faceted Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy to maximize ROI for limited startup resources, forging key partnerships with established FinTech players to augment product discovery and customer acquisition efforts.

❖ Expanded market reach by addressing customer use cases requiring scale-up and scale-out performance through heterogeneous high-performance compute acceleration (GPU, FPGA, RDMA, RoCE) in  public (AWS), private and hybrid cloud environments

❖ Established strategic partnership with the Xilinx (now AMD) Accelerator program for further increase product discoverability and simplify realizing gains through customized hardware acceleration

### Director of DFE Product (Through acquisition of Netlogic) @ Broadcom Limited
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Santa Clara, California, United States
I was responsible for inbound product management and engineering for 4G/5G infrastructure. I led a team of 4 senior managers and ~50 individuals (direct and matrixed) and ~80 with x-WF. I directed multiple teams in sub-specialties that included Product, Architecture, SDK, RTL Design, Design & Physical Verification, FPGA prototyping, P&R, DFM, package, product and test engineering. I administered ~$25M annual budget between headcount, CAD tools, and equipment. 

I held end-to-end responsibility to deliver a highly integrated Digital Front End (DFE) chip, as well as cross-functional management responsibility for coordinating deliverables among multiple parties. Served as a joint Owner for the product PRD and a key liaison to outbound Product Management. Accomplishments include:

❖ Delivered silicon for integrated “Radio on a Chip” solution to Nokia under a pre-determined contract (the most highly integrated chip available on the market), with right-first-time silicon. Highly integrated: 24 lanes of 10G Serdes, JESD204A/B, CPRI, DDR4, Dual core Arm A53, NVM, DUC/DDC, CFR and non-linear DPD.

❖ Designed features to meet the needs of multiple markets, accounting for various price sensitivities to optimize revenue, margins, and addressable TAM.

❖ Influenced Nokia to purchase the device and the entire team in M&A activity by leading the engineering team in flawless device execution.

❖ Created multiple value propositions for sales and marketing teams on the importance of the product to the customer, as well as the future potential to expand sales through partnerships.

### Senior Director (Through acquisition of Optichron) @ NetLogic Microsystems
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Santa Clara, California, United States
Netlogic was a developer of high-performance products for data center, enterprise, wireless, and wireline infrastructure networks.

I transitioned to NetLogic following its acquisition of Optichron. I was tasked with bringing 3rd generation of Wireless Digital Front End device to production at key customers, including Nokia and ZTE. I led 4 direct reports and a total team of 22, as well as a matrixed organization of 40. I directed IC Design, Verification, FPGA Design & Emulation, Test & Product Engineering, Packaging, and QA/Reliability teams. I managed foundry liaison and IP/CAD vendors, as well as providing dotted-line management to coordinate software, firmware, and reference PCB design. I oversaw budget of $18M. Major accomplishments include:
 
❖ Took Generation 3 of Digital Front End product line in 40nm to production on an aggressive 3-quarter schedule, leading to flagship sockets wins at Nokia and others.

❖ Spearheaded a revenue stream of a $40M annual run rate with devices supported as part of the Optichron acquisition.

❖ Drove chip solution that was recognized as a first-in-its-class product, with the lowest power per channel (highly integrated device).

### Co-founder and Vice President, Microelectronics @ Optichron
Jan 2003 – Jan 2011 | Fremont, California, United States
Optichron was built on path-breaking innovations in non-linear signal processing and delivered highly integrated and power-efficient silicon solutions used in base stations of 2G, 3G, and 4G cellular networks.

I co-founded the start-up company to serve the wireless infrastructure market. I led efforts in building design and productization teams, overseeing total team of 30. I held a broad range of responsibilities that ranged from architecture and design to mass production and customer success functions. I provisioned IC design infrastructure and identified CAD as well as other technology partners to help drive the company’s success. Notably, I:

❖ Led growth of annual revenues from zero to $30M and the deployment of close to 1M devices on cell towers worldwide over the lifespan of the start-up. Identified market with infrastructure providers as ideal for the company’s product offering.

❖ Played key role in raising $26M from Tier 1 venture capital companies and building the company from the ground up to deliver solutions that powered equipment of Tier 1 OEMs. Facilitated sale of Optichron for $220M as an identified employee, with a major role in due diligence activities.

### Manager, Digital Design @ Centillium Communications
Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 | Fremont, California, United States
I led design and deployment of the company’s CPE modem chips. I spearheaded cost reduction methodologies to maintain competitiveness within a rapidly commoditizing market. Key highlights:

❖ Enabled “right-first-time” product deployment in millions of Japanese households through Tier 1 OEMs (e.g. NEC, Sumitomo) while reducing the cost of CPE products by over 30%.

❖ Earned recognition as an exceptional leader by Centillium upper management and the customer for addressing and resolving multiple “line down” issues to maintain production with the least disruption.


## Education
### MBA (Honors) in General Management, Strategy
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

### MS in Computer Engineering
Oregon State University

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE (Class Valedictorian) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
PSG College of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ravi-ramachandran

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