Ramadass Prabhakar

Chief Technology Officer at WP Engine

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area, United States

About Ramadass Prabhakar

Ramadass Prabhakar is Chief Technology Officer at WP Engine. Location: Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area, United States.

Technology and Product leader with expertise in building multiple cross functional and geographically dispersed teams that have excelled in Innovation and sustained growth. A strong proponent of the horizon planning approach, he has built start-up teams that accelerated new product launches and beat targets around user satisfaction, time to market and user adoption both in SaaS and premise based software. A strong understanding of organizational design, Ramadass has effectively grown and led organizations of 300+ structuring them for growth, effectiveness and success delivering on multiple product lines. He has experience leading Engineering, QA, U/X, Product Management, Project Management and technical writing functions using a lean startup approach. He has taken multiple teams through organizational transformations, introducing appropriate Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and structuring for flexibility and speed at individual and portfolio level. With a passion for building and launching new products, Ramadass is at his best when scaling ideas into new business opportunities. While at LexisNexis he was recognized for his innovation and was part of an internal VC board and innovation think-tank, where he helped run Action labs- a 3 day bootcamp. Ramadass currently heads the Global Engineering, Product and Technology organization at WP Engine. Specialties: Product Innovation, Team building, Organizational Design, Lean Startup, Minimal Viable Product, Agile-Scrum, Kanban. Architecture, Web, Win and Mobile Applications, Model Driven Architecture, Legal Business Software, Banking Software, Vendor partnerships, User generated Content for Retailers and Brands

Skills

  • Scrum
  • SOAP
  • Agile Methodologies

Additional experience

  • Senior Vice President, Global Engineering

    WP Engine

    Started January 2020

Education

  • MBA, Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
  • M.S, Vanderbilt University