Summary
Ranjit Padmanabhan is a seasoned engineering and product leader with over three decades of technical experience and a decade in senior leadership roles, currently blending forward-deployed engineering and product at Uniphore to deliver enterprise Business AI Cloud solutions. He co-founded and led product and engineering teams at several startups (Autonom8, TheFind, MashLogic, Quixey) and has deep expertise in machine learning, big data, search, and conversational AI applied to customer experience. Known for turning customer deployments into roadmap-driven product features, he builds data science practices, real-time event pipelines, and rules engines that move research into production. Comfortable across adjacencies from cloud architecture to embedded analytics, he pairs hands-on technical fluency with a founder’s appetite for operational scaling. Outside of work he channels creativity as a keyboardist in a classic rock band, reflecting a practical, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
40 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
University of California, San Diego