Ram Jothikumar is a seasoned cloud engineering leader with a decade of experience building scalable cloud platforms and observability solutions for enterprise software. As Senior Director of Cloud Engineering at Workday in the San Francisco Bay Area, he oversees global cloud infrastructure, platform services, SRE, and release engineering with a strong commitment to remote-first, distributed teams. Previously at Splunk, he led Cloud Infrastructure for Observability, built and scaled a 350+ person engineering organization, expanded cloud presence from AWS to Google Cloud, and migrated 600+ microservices to Kubernetes. He drove efficiency and margin gains through platform-wide automation, established security and compliance programs resulting in SOC 2 Type II certifications, and created a Platform Services function to manage high-volume workloads like Kafka. Earlier roles at SignalFx, VMware, Nicira and others shaped his expertise in IaC (Kubernetes, Terraform), CI/CD, and large-scale scalability testing for network and cloud platforms. He holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech and a BS in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, and is based in the SF Bay Area.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech University
BS, Electrical & Electronics Engg, BS, Electrical & Electronics Engg at Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
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