Summary
Raj Kadam is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-led companies and engineering teams from the garage to IPO. He co-founded and architected Viralheat—raising seed and Series A funding, building large-scale data aggregation and real-time ML systems for sentiment and intent, and growing the business to a substantial ARR before acquisition by Cision. At Cision and later Oscar Health he led major integration, datacenter modernization, and product launches, serving as a technical-executive bridge between customers, sales, and engineering. Comfortable in customer-facing and go-to-market roles, he pairs hands-on systems design (C++, Ruby, Java, Python) with strategic product leadership. Based in San Francisco, he combines startup grit with enterprise-scale delivery, having overseen infrastructure across multiple countries and supported IPO-era engineering organizations. A pragmatic "random developer" at heart, he brings both deep technical craft and a talent for turning complex data into actionable product outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Santa Clara High School