Rakesh Sankar
Senior Director, Principal Engineer at Capgemini Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRakesh Sankar is a senior technology leader and principal engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience and two decades of enterprise impact building cloud-native, AI-first systems across automotive, semiconductors, IoT, and connected vehicles. He has a proven track record of turning crisis projects into growth engines—scaling engineering teams from single digits to 300+ globally while launching cloud/AI business units that generated $15M ARR and achieved 20% YoY growth. His pragmatic architecture approach delivered IoT platforms managing 500K+ devices, event-driven Kafka backbones processing 1M+ daily events, and multi-cloud microservices that cut OpEx by 42% and maintained 99.99% SLA. Rakesh pioneers Agentic AI frameworks and MLOps platforms that boost developer velocity and avoid millions in development costs, and he consistently ships zero-downtime, containerized CI/CD pipelines supporting millions of users. Based in Bengaluru, he blends technical depth with customer-facing stakeholder management and a knack for productizing incubated assets into industry-specific vertical solutions. An early founder-type engineer, he also brings investor-facing product experience from launching specialized social and data platforms.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Distinction, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Distinction at Mahendra Engineering College, Periyar University
English, Gujarati, Tamil
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Github Skills (110)
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apache9
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javascript8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rakesh-sankar/Tools
Apr 2011 - Mar 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push in 3 years 11 months
rakesh-sankar/awesome-cheatsheets
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 months
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