About

Raghu Rajalingam is a Senior Software Development Manager at Apptio with over 20 years of experience in the software development industry. He has a proven track record of delivering highly scalable and reliable applications either on-premise or cloud-based while meeting all KPIs. Raghu is a Certified Enterprise Architect from Sun Micro System (Now Oracle) with hands-on experience in architecting applications/products, developing applications from end to end. Raghu has vast technology experience in Java/J2EE stack (Restful Services, Spring Boot, Camel, SOA), Javascript (NodeJS, AngularJS, and ReactJS), DevOps tools (Puppet, Maven, Docker, Kubernete, Ansible), Database (RDBMS and NoSQL), and Microsoft Technologies (C#, .NET Framework). He is also a Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) Agilist, with a proven track record of executing and delivering high-quality agile-based projects/products for over 10 years. Raghu has domain expertise in IPTV/DTH, DRM, Catch-up, N-PVR, Service Delivery & Client Application used in OTT/IPTV/DTH and other Pay-TV industry players, Telecom OSS/BSS, Banking, and e-commerce. He has experience in transitioning work from on-site (Europe Office) to off-site (Bangalore Office, India), setting up the team, Lab/infrastructure, and working with global team & cross-functional teams. Raghu is an analytical, organized, and critical thinker with excellent communication, time management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. He has designed and implemented Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery with complete automated testing based on TDD, BDD, and Contract testing methodology. In his previous role as a Senior Engineering Manager at Nagra, Raghu set up the offshore development team with lab and transitioned work from the UK to Bangalore office in a short span of time. He also architected and implemented new features based on microservice architecture and deployed them at customer sites with zero bugs. He re-architected legacy monolithic applications to support the existing customer base to introduce new feature enhancements. Additionally, Raghu implemented automation frameworks, contract testing, and new support work processes that improved support work efficiency with better quality delivery and saved costs. Raghu has a Master of Technology in Computer Science from Prist University, Tanjore, a Bachelor’s Degree in