Raj R Raman

CTO, Cloud at Unisys

San Ramon, California, United States

About Raj R Raman

Raj R Raman is CTO, Cloud at Unisys. Location: San Ramon, California, United States.

I drive the cloud business and technology strategy for Enterprises and Public Sector customers at Unisys and lead our umbrella cloud offer, CloudForte. My mandate- Accelerate customer led innovation by building products and solutions that leverage cloud native capabilities Spent last 4+ years scaling and transforming a Multi-Cloud SaaS startup/AWS premier partner from ground up to acquisition by Nutanix. Previous to that, I helped incubate and transform a Cisco Cloud Big bet business from a premise led model to a Subscription enabled offering and helped scale that business to $200M+ ARR. Have held Senior Leadership at Startups and Enterprises in nearly every business function: R&D, CTO, Product Mgmt, Technical Sales ,BD , Account mgmt, Customer Success,Professional Services. Strengths: Good with people, Trust with customers, Grooming talent, Execution track record Expertise: Product Management, BD/Partnerships, Consultative Sales Domains: SaaS, Cloud security and compliance , AWS Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Cloud Mgmt, Microservices, Hybrid Cloud,Industrial IoT Recent track record: 2018-2010: Minjar- Premier AWS Consulting partner- AWS Cloud Services with emphasis on DevOps, Cloud Migrations and Recurring Managed Services. ounding employee and helped scale Minjar from a startup to its acquisition by Nutanix. Raj headed Technology strategy, BD, Technical Sales Botmetric- Co-founded Botmetric( now Nutnanix Beam) the SaaS Unit of Minjar, Botmetric, defines early product and helped established Botmetric as a SaaS leader in Cloud Optimization and Security compliance (Nutanix acquired Minjar, Botmetric in Q1'2018). Cisco- Raj took an international role as Cloud CIO to lead and scale a Cisco Big bet called UCaaS using hybrid clouds. UCaaS was a Enterprise subscription enabled Cloud for UC and Contact Center as a service. 2008-2009 CTO for the Linksys unit@Cisco

Skills

  • Cloud Computing
  • SaaS
  • Product Management

Additional experience

  • Principal,

    VoiceAI

    Started February 2018

Education

  • MS, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • BS, Shivaji University