Praveena Varadarajan

Virtual CIO & Vice President of IT Strategy and Innovation

Coretelligent

Sep 2025 - Current (1 year)

Chief Operating Officer

Evolphin Software

Mar 2024 - Jul 2025 (1 year 5 months)

Advisory Board Member

Orchestralai

Nov 2023 - Current (2 years 10 months)

Advisor

ZolixAI

Oct 2023 - Current (2 years 11 months)

Vice President / Senior Partner

IBM

Sep 2021 - Oct 2023 (2 years 2 months)

IBM - Hybrid Cloud Transformation Strategy for large multi-cloud / hybrid cloud transformations. Creating strategy to integrate the Generative AI based tools to transformation assets. Create offerings to automate the digital transformation for clients.

Global AWS Modernization Practice Leader

Amazon

Apr 2020 - Sep 2021 (1 year 6 months)

Global Modernization Practice for large cloud transformations. Cloud transformation advisory leader and offerings leader for cloud Modernization projects ( Containerization, Cloud Native Build).

Vice President - Product Engineering

FICO

Jun 2015 - Dec 2019 (4 years 7 months)

A senior leadership role to build a secure cloud product engineering platform. Led the design, development and deployment of a SaaS solution offered through the FICO Decision Management Platform and Strategy Director product suite. -A change agent in converting monolithic on-premise solutions to cloud-enabled SaaS products. -Implemented the engineering model required for the shift to cloud solutions by setting up an Agile development methodology and CICD process that aided in continuous development and deployment. -Proposed and implemented microservices architecture for improved cloud development and deployment. -Built a skilled cloud development team through engineer talent management and training. Introduced the concept of Dev Ops engi

Vice President - Product Engineering (TRIAD)

FICO

Jun 2013 - Dec 2015 (2 years 7 months)

Led the development, deployment, and support of a customer management solution that leveraged analytics, simulation, champion/challenger testing, and strategy consulting to predict customer behavior and deliver automated/consistent strategies for credit and deposit accounts through an intuitive user interface.  -Redesigned the Analytic Datamart solution for improved performance and an enhanced and business user-defined report generation process that enhanced the customer decision-making experience.

Vice President

FICO

Oct 2010 - Jan 2013 (2 years 4 months)

Hired into this leadership role to build product engineering standards for product delivery and quality. Institutionalized Agile product development methodology with a hybrid model that ensured predictable product delivery and quality assurance.  -Automated/consistent strategies for credit and deposit accounts through an intuitive user interface.  -Delivered the proposal for an engineering structure that incorporated metrics and process governance, metrics measurement and continuous product improvement, and standardized training and tool introduction.  -Leveraged Agile methods to deliver predictable product delivery, improved customer satisfaction and success, predictable release cycles and quality, improved resource management, and tim

Director

Oracle

Mar 2008 - Oct 2010 (2 years 8 months)

Built and managed a standardized on-demand engineering platform that offered a secure Cloud platform for Oracle’s on-demand solution offering. Created a set of tools and technologies that supported cloud development and support of the Oracle Fusion product suite.  -Designed a disaster recovery solution feature in the Oracle Cloud.  -Applied optimization techniques that included policy-driven management for the SaaS product offered through the Oracle On-Demand infrastructure.  -Collected and analyzed deployment data for the optimization of future, early-stage Cloud product development.  -Delivered and executed a project review board that improved service and quality provided within the On-Demand organization.

Director - Research and Development

Avaya

May 2007 - May 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Established and led an engineering organization charged with the next-generation call center application development. Accountable for customer management, product definition and delivery, and managing a product portfolio that included emerging technologies for voice recording and analytics.  -Built an India-based center of excellence with a span of responsibility for providing the direction and oversight of projects transferred to the newly-established COE.  -Worked with third-party vendors to accelerate the growth of the organization.  -Recruited 100+ skilled engineering staff within one year.

Director - Web Tier Engineering

Sun Microsystems

Aug 2005 - Apr 2007 (1 year 9 months)

Leadership position heading an engineering organization that is responsible for the development of the next generation web tier platform for sun . The position sets the direction for the open source web tier solutions for Sun and supports large scale web tier deployments. The Web server today supports PHP and Ruby on rails with a strategy to support all the emerging internet deployment technologies. The job responsibilities include Customer management , User Group management and Product reference management. The project has a Global team (US, India ) with an organization size of 75 Engineers.

Director - Java Enterprise System Integration

Sun Microsystems

May 2004 - Jul 2005 (1 year 3 months)

Leadership position heading a few cross functional organizations. This organization was also responsible for integrating the sun software products into the Middleware Infrastructure Platform named Java Enterprise System. The Sun Java Enterprise System is a radically new software system that delivers an integrated, core set of industry-leading enterprise network web services that virtually all businesses need today. The team was a global team with engineers in India , China and the US.

Director -Customer Quality Engineering - Web Services

Sun Microsystems

Apr 2003 - May 2004 (1 year 2 months)

Integrated services required for the software industry and managed the successful delivery of all of the services. Core Services include Quality, Labs, Release Engineering and Efficiency Tools. Instrumental in cost cutting measures for software services. Streamlined the quality assurance processes and policies. Introduced the concept of Customer Scenario testing to improve the product deployment quality. This was a global team with engineers in the US, India , China, Japan, Russia and Ireland.

Director - Sun ONE Developer Platform / eCommerce Products

Sun Microsystems

Dec 2001 - Jul 2003 (1 year 8 months)

Director - Sun ONE Developer Platform This product was a Developer Platform the integrates the Sun Development tools with the deployment servers to enable the ease of use development experience as well as a guaranteed deployment on the Java Enterprise System. Ecommerce Product – End of Life Leadership role in creating and executing on an end of life plan for the Iplanet Ecommerce products. I was instrumental in working with key customers to transition them from eCommerce products to other solutions.

BillerXpert B2B, B2C, Consolidator Solutions

Sun Microsystems

Jun 1999 - Dec 2001 (2 years 7 months)

Senior Manager- Iplanet BillerXpert B2B , BillerXpert Consolidator & BillerXpert B2C Instrumental in the formulation and growth of a team to develop the Ecommerce Bill Presentment Suite. The BillerXpert B2B product was deployed in large Banks and served as a bridge to integrate large businesses in the Financial Industry. Demonstrated consistent successful delivery of all three lines of products in the Bill Presentment Suite.

Senior Manager - Corporate Architecture/ Purchasing Solutions in Sun IT

Sun Microsystems

Jul 1996 - Jul 1999 (3 years 1 month)

Senior Manager- Corporate Architecture / Quality : Instrumental in the design of a Java Product life cycle. Involved in the analysis of potential acquisitions for Sun. Instrumental in standardizing object oriented design process at Sun. Manager-Purchasing in Java: Technical Program Manager for the analysis and design of a purchasing Internet application in Java.

Manager

Concurrent Technologies Corporation

Jun 1994 - Jun 1996 (2 years 1 month)

Distributed Database environment with CORBA interface : Development of a distributed heterogeneous database environment with multiple sources of Standard for Product Data Exchange (STEP) . Central Information Cooperative (CIC): Design and Implementation of the Electronic Commerce Resource Center (ECRC) funded by DARPA.

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Technical Lead

Enron Gas Corporation

Mar 1993 - Jun 1994 (1 year 4 months)

Enron Access Gas Marketing System: Development and maintenance of a gas marketing system for Enron Access. The critical areas included computer generated gas nominations, an effective billing system, and a powerful accounting system .

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Senior Engineer

Citibank Card Systems

Jun 1991 - Mar 1992 (10 months)

Credit Card System: Development of a Credit Card System for Citibank.

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