Anand Rajagopalan
San Francisco, California, United States
Anand Rajagopalan is a results-oriented technologist and engineering leader with over 20 years of experience in the software industry in the U.S. and India, having worked at prestigious companies including Expedia, Microsoft, and Yahoo. He specializes in the retail and travel domains.
As the CTO at Hotwire, Anand led platform modernization initiatives such as migration to the cloud, microservices adoption, React migration, and the development of Data and AI/ML platforms from scratch, completing these projects in under two quarters.
Anand also served as the Head of Site Engineering for macys.com and bloomingdales.com, overseeing a 500+ strong cross-functional team comprising Development, Quality Engineering, and Architecture.
His experience includes being the engineering leader for two key global platforms at Yahoo! - Social and UGC, managing around 75 engineers across Sunnyvale and Bangalore, and working in collaborative, matrixed organizations with leaders worldwide.
Anand Rajagopalan has received numerous awards and recognitions for his leadership and performance, including the "General Manager's Gold Star" award for leadership excellence and the "Eagle" award for top performance in the Microsoft Premier East region.
In terms of education, Anand studied Management at MIT Sloan School of Management and completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science at the University Of Madras. He also attended SBOA School in Chennai.
His professional career spans various prestigious roles, including Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Chief Technology Officer at Hotwire, Vice President and Head of Site Engineering at Macy's, and Director of Engineering at Yahoo, among others.
Anand Rajagopalan has a wealth of experience in technical speaking, having served as the Official Microsoft Speaker at notable events like Visual Studio Live, Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC), and Microsoft Technical Education (TechEd) Conference. He also has hands-on expertise in Java, Pig, Hadoop, MapReduce, and C++.
