About

Raghu C. is a seasoned technologist with nearly 20 years of experience in the IT industry, including 15 years of work experience in the USA. He is currently serving as the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Paytm, where he oversees all engineering functionalities, including building highly scalable B2C/B2B platforms, driving process, leading multiple tech teams, DevOps, cross-team interactions, and stakeholder management. He has led teams to build out multiple products and platforms like Paytm SmartRetail Point Of Sale (POS), Paytm eCommerce Social buying, and Paytm Travel. Raghu is a hands-on leader with a passion for technology and building effective and high-performance teams. He has a proven ability to productize business needs that align with the company's objectives. He specializes in leadership, server architecture, distributed systems, databases, operating systems, career development, high traffic internet applications, enterprise software, organizational planning, and networking. Raghu has experience in building large-scale distributed platforms and was the lead architect for early versions of Yahoo! Instant Messenger. He is also experienced in big data, cloud, data analytics, Hive, Hadoop, BI, and familiar with various technologies like CMS, app servers, web servers, Java, J2EE. He is also familiar with networks, SaaS, and SOA. Apart from his current role at Paytm, Raghu has worked as a Chief Technical Advisor for early-stage startups, mentoring founders on technology, process, and design. He has also served as the VP of Engineering at bigbasket, where he oversaw all engineering functionalities related to the bigbasket.com eCommerce portal, including performance, scalability, feature delivery, creating and driving process, leading tech team, etc. Raghu holds an M.S in Computer Science from the University of Texas and a B.E in Computer Science from SJCE, University of Mysore. He has a tech stack that includes senior software engineer, parts-of-speech, big data, Java, Hadoop, DevOps, web, and Apache Hive. With 29.80 years of relevant experience, Raghu is a highly skilled technologist with a track record of building and leading successful tech teams.