About

Raj Yennam is a Senior Vice President at ValueLabs with over 22 years of experience in technology consulting, delivery, and operational excellence. He has extensive experience in leading large delivery teams covering technology, strategy, and innovation. Raj has delivered end-to-end solutions for clients in various domains, including benefits, insurance, healthcare, handheld devices/mobility, travel, e-learning, interactive classroom solutions, and content delivery platforms. Raj has been instrumental in scaling and streamlining delivery for a large team of 500+ for a benefits client. He has also set up a cost-optimized R&D team of size 240+ in India in less than a year for the world's top secured handheld devices company. Raj has provided architecture and led the delivery of the first version of the next-generation travel platform for one of the best travel portals in India. Raj has managed large customers, especially distributed, cross-functional, agile teams, and has excellent understanding of business needs and customer requirements. He has worked with various clients from India, USA, Canada, UK, Malaysia, and Australia. Raj possesses proven management, communication, leadership, and mentoring skills. Raj's specialties include putting together a business strategy, technical analysis of software requirements, estimating software projects, software architecture, strong technical management, and SDLC (Agile/SAFe). He has exposure to technologies like Blockchain, IoT, BI&Analytics, Java/J2EE, JQuery, Ajax, Angular, React, Struts, Springs, Hibernate, Caching mechanisms like Memcached server & Redis, Quartz scheduling mechanism, Web Services, Microservices, JSON, XML, JUnit, and knowledge on CMS/Portlet frameworks like Liferay, exposure to web and application servers like Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss, WebSphere. Currently, Raj is working as Senior Vice President - Consulting at ValueLabs, where he works with Enterprise Architecture, Front-end, and Java Practices. He supports sales, growth, and delivery excellence and provides leadership in bringing best practices & governance across. In the past, Raj has worked as VP - Global Delivery and Senior Vice President - Global Delivery at ValueLabs, where he managed delivery for large accounts across domains like Benefits, Insurance, Healthcare, Handheld devices, and Airlines. He helped in the agile transformation of large distributed teams and supported setting up governance for delivery excellence. Raj holds a Btech degree in Industrial & Production engineering from Pulla Reddy Engineering College,