California State University-Channel Islands

Osmania University

St. Patrick's High School

CTO @ Ranker

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Our platform attracts more than 2 million visitors worldwide everyday, and is the leader in fan-powered rankings on just about everything. 

Over 1 billion votes and counting power Ranker Insights. Our data science, ML and engineering teams thrive working with a treasure trove of psychographic correlation data delivering personalized consumer recommendations.

-  Partnering with CEO and cross-functional business leaders to help lead the company’s strategic direction, development, and ongoing growth.

-  Leadership and Management: Lead and manage global teams that are responsible for multiple areas of technology, assess talent with a track-record of hiring, coaching and mentoring technology professionals to positively impact team performance and career development.

-  Vision and Strategy: Ability to assess the state of the Technology function and educate the organization on how Technology can enhance business results and to develop Technology as a critical business partner among the other functions within the company.

-  Execution Focused and Results-oriented: Engage directly with issues and possess a “roll up the sleeves” working style to achieve superior outcomes. Combine tenacity with a sense of urgency to drive tasks to completion.

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Ranker

Chief Technology Officer

Our Specialization:

-  As technology advisors we work very closely with Incubators and Startups in building technology roadmaps including hiring and building a high performing software engineering teams.

-   We help companies in building sustainable high performant technical teams by participating in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new and migrating existing applications, software and services on the AWS, Google and Azure platforms.

-  Help start-ups successfully overcome their "Technical Due Diligence" phase by suggesting solutions architectures & providing prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, Hadoop, mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, and security.

-  Ability to think strategically about business, create technical definition around customer objectives in complex situations, develop solution strategies taking into consideration their security and compliance needs (PII, PCI, HIPAA etc), motivate & mobilize resources, and deliver results through rapid application prototyping and integration with internal and external systems.

DigiTrux

Founder, CTO

- FOUNDING EXECUTIVE MEMBER: As one of the first five founding team members, I am also one of the company executives. I spent most of my time working with IT team members in design, architecture, maintenance and enhancement of our corporate on-premise and cloud network infrastructures, partner with cross-functional teams in driving technical operational excellence.

-  TECHNOLOGY EVANGELIST: Provided thought leadership for the technology team and overall organization. Communicated company’s technology strategy to investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders. I also actively participated in technology analyses/evaluations, infrastructure decisions, and time permitting, hands-on coding and conduct deep code reviews.

-  COMPLIANCE & GOVERNANCE: Invested my time in driving Governance, Privacy, Explainability, Security, Compliance both on-premise and on-cloud.

-  COACH: As a servant leader, I strive to coach and develop my teams so they perform as highly as possible, help them in recruiting top talent while fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and together deliver results within engineering teams.

My Top 3Ps:
PRIORITY -> Developing People ◦ Building a Trusting Team ◦ Achieving Results

PRINCIPLES -> Serve First ◦ Persuasion ◦ Empowerment

PRACTICES -> Listening ◦ Delegating ◦ Connecting Followers to Mission

Sidecar Health

Vice President Of Technology

- TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE: Communicate the company’s technology strategy to investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders.

-  ENGINEERING LEADER: Responsible for leading the Engineering, Net Ops, Data Warehouse, Q&A and the Implementation teams. Make tactical decisions on all technical initiatives. Oversee technical and engineering teams as the top technical leader and goal-setter.

-  TECHNOLOGY ENABLER: Partner with cross-functional core stakeholders, to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and take the software specifications into working product outcomes. Align technology to business strategy, and proactively drive a technical direction throughout the organization.

-  CHANGE STRATEGY: Advocated for change across the organization, ensuring the implementation of change with appropriate communications, goals, resources, metrics, and reviews.

Healthplans.com

- <a href="http://YP.com">YP.com</a> sold to DexMedia

-   Head the engineering team for Video and Website product suite, working with the Ad Platform team to enhance and expand the company's portfolio of vendor-provided products.

-  Provide conceptual design, prototype, hands-on development and test cycles appropriate to a chosen technical solution. Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies.

-  Lead multiple project life-cycles from beginning to end within a fast paced fluid work environment. 

-  Command the ability to lead/drive change, identify lessons learned and implement improvements on each release. 

-  Build internal structural processes by implementing best practices across all technical roles.

-  Develop employee training and top grading processes to assist with overall organizational improvement.

-  Develop plans, sets goals, develops metrics, report status and partner with key stakeholders, manage relationships with external partners to ensure optimum productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness in meeting business objectives.

YP, The Real Yellow Pages®

Director of Engineering

- Instantly Sold to Survey Sampling International

DEPARTMENT LEADERSHIP
 - Overall responsibility of directing the software engineering function in development and management of a strong, well-trained, motivated team, overseeing all aspects of the software engineering department

 - Motivating and inspiring employees to higher levels of engagement, productivity, and personal achievement

 - Fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, excellence and a fun work environment


THE DAILY GRIND
 - Hands-on coding as needed

 - Lead and review architectural design and facilitate architecturally significant decisions

 - Ensure that the technology can scale with the growth of the business and diversity of the products


STRATEGY & PLANNING
 - Participate in business discussions, providing technology guidance to employ the best technologies to differentiate the company from competition and enhance the customer experience

 - Work closely with product management on refining the vision and strategy for company products and distilling requirements into technical designs that result in scalable high quality products

 - Translate product strategy into innovative software products


TRACKING & REPORTING
 - Track and report on key performance indicators for technology projects

 - Communicate plans, status, risks and issues to the senior management team

 - Help stakeholders understand how technology is moving the needle for business


PROCESSES & TOOLS
 - Establish and maintain engineering standards and best practices, including development methodologies

 - Improve processes for software development and deployment to meet the highest quality standards, scalability and reliability

 - Recommend technology and process improvements to reduce costs

Instantly, Inc.

Director of Software Engineering

- Recipient of "2012 - One Company, One Team" award

-  Originally employed with DexOne the company merged with SuperMedia in 2013 and rebranded as DexMedia

-  As Manager of Advertisement Systems Engineering group, I'm a technical power and a motivator who makes things happen.

-  Manage a team of engineers charged with designing and architecture of new functionality for DexMedia's Mobile and Internet Advertising product line.

-  Help write code and mentor my team with a hands-on approach. 

-  Oversee product design, bug verification, remediation and production support.

-  Analyze data to make recommendations as appropriate and determine technical requirements.

-  Analyze project requirements necessary to complete the full SDLC.

-  Drive project deadlines and seamlessly interact with Quality Assurance, Operations and Project Management. 

-  Foster successful delivery of a wide range of software applications and web properties that drive DexMedia's  high-traffic search sites.

DexYP

Manager, Software Engineering

- Make strategic technology choices, directly supervising the quality of designs and implementation inside and between components.

- Lead and foster the development of high performing technical teams to meet strategic objectives.

- Influence, guide, mentor and coach group of engineers and rely on their technical expertise in reaching decisions by demonstrating strong leadership qualities, including a hands-on, non-bureaucratic leadership style, to include open and frequent communications at all levels of the organization and a genuine sensitivity to the development needs of the organization.

- Influence, Identify, and recruit technical leaders into the organization to insure the appropriate levels of quality on architecture(s).

- Collaborate effectively with peer architects and chief architects to solve complex problems spanning their respective areas and resolves technological disagreement with informed, rational solutions.

Intuit

Senior Software Engineer

- Performing maintenance and enhancement of new and/or existing web applications (<a href="http://eFax.com">eFax.com</a>, <a href="http://j2Global.com">j2Global.com</a>, <a href="http://eVoice.com">eVoice.com</a>, <a href="http://jConnect.com">jConnect.com</a>, eFax Messenger Desktop Client [MFC/C++] )

- Co-ordinate with the business and systems analysts, developers, QA team to define requirements for modifications including affected programs, expected behavior, related document changes, and test scenarios.

- Demonstrating technical proficiency in design, implementation, and unit testing and striving to attain broad application knowledge.

- Actively participating in daily stand-up meetings, pair programming, code-reviews, mentoring team members and conducting training sessions

• j2 Global Communications

Development Lead - Consumer Credit Reports
- Performing maintenance and enhancement of new and/or existing software including: the credit tri-bureau merge\match rules in Landsafe Merge\Credit Engine, various customer interfaces (Web, Socket, EDI / X12 files handling, MQ-Series etc) and supporting modules.

- Co-ordinate with the business and systems analysts, developers, QA team to define requirements for modifications including affected programs, expected behavior, related document changes, and test scenarios.

- Demonstrating technical proficiency in design, implementation, and unit testing and striving to attain broad application knowledge.

- Support the team in maintaining and delivering a good quality application. 

- Recommending and maintaining application development standards

• Countrywide Home Loans

Development Lead

- Technical lead for building and managing Common Business Objects that get integrated across enterprise platform.

-  Extensive use of Rational Development suite to design and generate business objects.

-  Performing maintenance and enhancement of new and/or existing software systems or product modules.

-  Performing analysis to define requirements for modifications including affected programs, expected behavior, related document changes, and test scenarios.

-  Preparing program documentation of product components

-  Demonstrating technical proficiency in design, implementation, and unit testing and striving to attain broad application knowledge

-  Recommending and maintaining QAD development standards

• QAD

Principal Software Engineer

- Designed a Java Architectural Framework for e-commerce applications under which various applications are currently being developed.

- Involving in entire life cycle of Internet based software applications and implementation of applications that cater and support Netformx product line.

- Played a major role in streamlining the entire Data Delivery Process by designing and implementing an e-commerce solution that’s currently supporting the entire corporate customer base of the organization.

- Actively involved in design of database and formulating stored procedures that adheres to corporate business rules and logic.

- Involving in interviewing and recruitment of technical staff to various projects in the e-commerce-engineering department.

- Managing projects and technical staff, solving system integrity, customer and scalability issues.

• Netformx

Principal Engineer

Consulting for various clientele of InfoGain in India, UK and USA

-  Delivering expertise in design and development of J2EE based application frameworks. Hands on integrated application development with Toplink, Broadvision, KL Components, JRun, Weblogic, Websphere with various flavors of RDBMS systems and Java IDEs catering for various Dot Com companies and Large scale enterprises.

• Infogain

Principal Consultant

- Developed APIs to aid a developer in rapidly building applications using Microsoft Windows SDK and later enhancements with MFC/Visual C++

- Worked on a Remote diagnosis system for the Cardio-Vascular technology of India incorporating medical standards like DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine), JDK 1.1.x, C++, JNI, JDBC, RPG/400 and DB2/400 

- Involved in the entire life cycle of building a technology comprising of data security, creating a Java based application server, Java Plug ins and Protocol Converters using JDK 1.1.x, C++, JNI, NPAPI (Netscape Plug-in API), RPG/400, DB2/400, Hybrid RSA Des algorithms from Algorithmic Research, Israel and Smart Card technology.

Ramesh Nori