Ram Jothikumar
Senior Director Of Cloud Engineering at Workday
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRam Jothikumar is a seasoned cloud engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling infrastructure for observability and security platforms across startups and enterprise software. Currently Senior Director of Cloud Engineering at Workday, he previously led platform, data, and cloud infrastructure teams at Arkose Labs, Splunk, SignalFx and VMware, bringing deep expertise in performance, scalability and operational excellence. He pairs hands-on engineering roots—from device drivers and networking at Nicira/Agito to cloud-native operations—with strategic leadership that drives large-scale cloud transformations. Known for navigating both high-growth startups and complex enterprise environments, Ram excels at turning hard distributed-systems problems into reliable, production-grade services. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends an MS in Electrical Engineering with practical systems experience dating back to embedded and manufacturing engineering roles, giving him a rare cross-layer technical perspective. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who coaches teams to balance velocity with long-term platform health.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech UniversityBS, Electrical & Electronics Engg, BS, Electrical & Electronics Engg at Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
Github Skills (38)
counter10
plugin9
integrations9
aws-sdk9
metadata9
signalfx9
client-library9
cpu9
daemon9
python-client9
docker8
python8
api8
disk8
sdk8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ramjothikumar/docker_env_manager
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
docker-environmentmanage-createupdatedocker
ramjothikumar/puppet_setup
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 17 days
testbedpuppet
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