Rajendra Karamcheti

CEO, CTO, and Co-Founder of Akridata

Rajendra Karamcheti is a highly experienced software delivery expert with over 16 years of experience in leading teams, architecting solutions, and developing client-server applications using Java-related technologies. Rajendra has provided technology leadership and managed end-to-end delivery of large eCommerce engagements from program inception through discovery, planning, design, execution, launch, and post-launch steady-state. He has specialized experience in delivering customer-facing Omni Channel Commerce and digital transformation applications for large Fortune 500 companies in Retail and Telecom industries. Over the years, Rajendra has worked with multiple Cloud-related technologies, content management systems, catalog management, search, inventory, pricing, and third parties. Rajendra is passionate about designing and building a highly available and highly performant system that is deployed across multiple regions to make a meaningful impact on the end-user experience. He is a great mentor and coach to other team members and attracts and encourages top talent.

Experience

CEO, CTO and Co-Founder at Akridata (April 2018 - Present)

Partner at Enterprise Labs (September 2016 - Present); Consulting CTO at PrimaryIO (January 2017 - Present), Vice President at Western Digital (July 2015 - July 2016); CTO and Vice President at HGST (October 2013 - June 2015); CTO and Co-Founder at Virident Systems (July 2006 - October 2013); Associate Professor at New York University (August 1997 - July 2009); Visiting Research Scientist at Google (August 2005 - June 2006)

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1990 - 1997); MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin (1988 - 1990); B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1984 - 1988)