Summary
Santhanagopalan Raghavan is a software engineering manager with 8 years of experience building highly available, scalable infrastructure for cloud and AI workloads across Microsoft, AWS, and Meta. He currently leads inference serving infrastructure at Meta after shaping next-gen Azure networking and PaaS integrations that handle billions of daily requests and enable ISVs to lift-and-shift on-prem software natively. Known for translating complex technical designs into clear business outcomes, he combines deep systems engineering (control plane, Hyper-V, Host-OS) with strong people leadership and coaching. He has repeatedly started and ramped teams, led 0→1 product launches, and created reusable frameworks adopted across 20+ Azure teams—an indicator of his focus on durable engineering impact. Based in Mountain View, he pairs academic roots in autonomous systems and formal validation with hands-on production delivery across hyperscalers.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer science and engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer science and engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
English, Tamil, Sanskrit