About

Raghavendra Babu, also known as Raghu, is an accomplished engineering leader and technology evangelist with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He has expertise in various domains including virtualization, networking, storage, and cloud technologies such as VMware and Azure. Raghu has hands-on experience in data center technologies such as SDDC, SDN, SDS, and system management. He is proficient in Agile development models and is certified in CSM, CPO, and SAFe4.0. Raghu is a strong advocate of DevOps and CI/CD. He has played diverse engineering roles in creating bare metal to full-stack software solutions with key differentiation translating to revenue, margins, and savings. Raghu is a quick learner, adaptive, and execution-driven. He also has a passion for handling new challenges and building high-performance teams. Currently, Raghu is working as an Engineering Leader for CloudIQ at Dell EMC. He has previously worked at Dell as an Engineering Leader for Azure Stack Hub Engineering and at VMware as a Senior Manager for vCloud Air R&D. At Dell, he was a founding member of the DellEMC India Azure Stack Hub Engineering team and was pivotal in building the Software Engineering Organization. He embedded SAFE4.0 Agile practices as a core-DNA enabling the team to deliver monthly DellEMC Azure Stack Hub software releases. He also conceived premium Azure Stack Hub software solutions alongside Dell value-added integrations. Raghu has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from B.M.S. College of Engineering, a Master of Technology degree in Computer Engineering from Reva University, Bangalore, and a Diploma in Computer Science from Vet BVL Polytechnic. He completed his secondary education at St. Joseph High School. Raghu's technical skills include Azure, DevOps, CI/CD, integration, microservices, and infra. He has a relevant experience of 23.46 years.