Summary
Raja Bollam is an accomplished technology and platform leader with 22+ years in telecom and messaging systems, now serving as Associate Director of Technology at AT&T after a 17-year tenure as Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics. He has deep expertise across SMS, RCS, IMS, eSIM discovery, and Messaging-as-a-Platform architectures, spanning radio-era protocols through modern microservices and Android messaging clients. Raja combines hands-on system design and hardware abstraction experience with solution architecture for application, integration, and infrastructure layers, enabling carrier-grade deployments for Korean mobile operators. Educated in computer science and data science at UIUC and holding a bachelor’s from BIT Mesra, he pairs rigorous academic foundation with practical product delivery from device firmware to cloud-native services. A pragmatic leader, he often operates at the intersection of standards, operator requirements, and scalable engineering—bringing rare continuity across multiple generations of mobile messaging technology.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Master's degree Computer Science & Data Science, Master's degree Computer Science & Data Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Korean