Summary
Rafi Khardalian is an engineering and technology leader with over two decades of experience building and scaling global infrastructure and cloud platforms, now co-founding and leading Actualyze AI as CEO. He previously led a 350-person organization at Cisco after Metacloud's acquisition, driving products like Cisco Container Platform, Intersight Kubernetes Service, and Workload Engine while modernizing CI/CD, security, and SDLC practices. Earlier roles at Ticketmaster had him architecting highly available, high-throughput systems for global live events, honing expertise in capacity planning and automation for peak traffic. Rafi combines founder-level product and technical strategy with hands-on systems architecture, operations, and mergers integration experience. Based in Los Angeles, he’s as comfortable briefing boards and investors as he is designing multi-tenant cloud platforms—an operator who repeatedly turns complex infrastructure into reliable, scalable products.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer