Sudhakar Ramakrishnan
Transforming Visions into Reality
Enginnering Leader | Make It Happen
2024- current
2020-2023
Transforming orgs & teams
S - success | V - vision | I - innovation | T- Transformation | A- Administration
Engineering & Infrastructure Leader | Scaling Cloud, AI & Platforms | Driving Strategy, Execution, & High-Impact Teams
Management
Leadership
As a transformative leader, I've strategically expanded and supported global TPM teams, adding 25+ high-impact TPMs, including Directors, TPM Managers, and top-tier TPMs, across the USA, Canada, Germany, India, and China, while propelling organizations to higher velocity, and consistently delivering customer-centric, high-value software solutions for VMware Tanzu's 800+ R&D organization.
Knowledge
Strong understanding of program execution, middleware, & distributed systems I have built.
Complexity
Ran massively large horizontal programs Google wide scale: Launch of Google's first Cloud Region, and Diskless -- prod with no disk initiative spanning all product areas at Google.
Leadership
Geared towards creating customer-centric products. Led 20+ teams of size 7 to 40+ engineers across distributed offices to facilitation of organisation wide OKRs. Skilled in recruitment, empowerment, and creating a culture of appreciation.
Org Impact
Award-winning program leader with a track record of delivering cross-functional initiatives, including recognized contributions to VMware Tanzu and achieving substantial resource savings and productivity enhancements through Google Tech Infrastructure projects.
Products I built at my startup
Thought Leadership
May 15: The Art of Shifting Gears: What to do when team’s velocity slackens?
Apr 20: Epic Software Migrations & The Great Migration of Masai Mara
Mar 23: I am 99% done: On defining done and instituting code milestones
Mar 18: Keeping remote teams organised across 13 hr time zone differences
Artificial Intelligence: The Future
Cultural Dimension and AI
Healthcare: The last frontier that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has not conquered. Cultural factors significantly impact the way healthcare is accessed and delivered. Here is an article from a study I was involved in that digs deeper into this topic.
DL Model For Covid Detection
This is an article I contributed to as we evaluate the diagnostic performance of a doctor-trained DL model (Svita_DL8) to screen for COVID-19 on CXR, and to compare the performance of the DL model with that of expert radiologists. Article on pubmed.