Rajesh R
Head Of Strategic Sourcing- India Digital Hub
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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RockstarRajesh R is a strategic sourcing and procurement leader with 18+ years of experience driving global vendor management, contract negotiations, and TCO reduction across IT services, software licensing, hardware and facilities. Currently Head of Strategic Sourcing at Volvo Cars India Digital Hub, he has led transformational vendor programs—cloudification, application rationalization, offshoring and automation—that optimize supplier portfolios and enforce contract compliance. Known for building purchasing centres of excellence and extracting actionable spend analytics, he consistently converts stakeholder alignment into measurable savings and service improvements. His background spans major global organizations (Volvo Group, Nissan Digital, Yahoo, Philips) where he led supplier consolidation, procurement process design and SAP/MM implementations. Notably, he combines domain sourcing expertise with hands-on exposure to technical projects, evidenced by contributions to OpenTSDB that reflect an appreciation for scalable backend systems. Pragmatic and relationship-driven, he excels at turning complex sourcing strategy into operational reality.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
timeseries-database10
data-storage10
hbase10
javas10
java10
data-structure9
data-structures9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OpenTSDB/opentsdb
Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
A scalable, distributed Time Series Database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris Larsen contributed significantly to the OpenTSDB project, focusing on the implementation of features related to unique ID generation and data storage. He introduced the `RandomUniqueId` class to improve metric ID distribution, which involved Java code modifications. Furthermore, he updated the `UniqueId` class, adding options for random ID generation. Larsen also developed the `AppendDataPoints` class and modified the `TSDB` and `IncomingDataPoints` classes to support append writes, altering the data storage mechanisms.
scalabletime-series-databaseseries-databasetimeseries-databasedistributed-database
rajeshal/athenz
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Open source platform for X.509 certificate based service authentication and fine grained access control in dynamic infrastructures. Athenz supports provisioning and configuration (centralized authorization) use cases as well as serving/runtime (decentralized authorization) use cases.
Contributions:31 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 4 months
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