#346 - Leadership Strategies for Building Innovative Solutions

Raghu has over 22 years of experience leading technology initiatives across consumer internet, retail and eAuction; conceiving and implementing technology products and high transactional platforms for Internet Retailer top 100 websites.  For the last couple of years, he was leading the digital transformation initiatives at CapitalOne, Target and JCPenney, moving from monolith packaged eCommerce solutions (Oracle/IBM) to home-grown microservices, cloud based architecture. Currently he is leading the engineering for enteprise Personalzation/Experiementation, Content Management, Enterprise ClickStream and analytics platforms. In his previous job, he spent all his time working on every facet of Retail from eCommerce, Enterprise Price/Promo systems, Item Management Systems,Assortment Planning, Inventory management systems for Internet retailer top 100 retailers. Raghu holds a Masters degree in Computer applications, India. He started his career as a software engineer and throughout his career, has held a wide range of roles as lead engineer, Architect, Engineering Manager, Capability Product Owner.