Raghavan Kollivakkam

Lead Google Drive API

Raghavan Kollivakkam is a Senior Manager for Drive API at Google, a position he has held since June 2021. He is based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and brings over 20 years of experience in building and managing global teams in the technology sector.

Professional Background

Current Role: At Google, Raghavan focuses on the Drive API, contributing to the development and management of API services.
Previous Experience:
- Director of Engineering at Nutanix (October 2018 - April 2021): He led the development of an API platform and managed a global team, overseeing the migration of existing API services to a new platform.
- Head of Engineering for API, DB, UX, UI at Cisco (August 2016 - September 2018): He was responsible for the architecture and delivery of the North Bound interfaces for Cisco's Network Assurance Engine.
- Principal Engineer at Cisco (November 2014 - July 2016): He led the development of a Hybrid Cloud Management Platform, significantly improving deployment times and user experience.
- CTO and Co-founder of Gomazu (March 2014 - November 2014) and held various engineering management roles at F5 Networks and Cisco prior to that.

Raghavan's career highlights include mentoring early-career engineers, leading agile transformations, and contributing to open-source projects. His educational background includes a degree from the University of Michigan.