Ravisankar

AI & Product Engineering Leader with over 25 years of experience building and scaling enterprise B2B SaaS products serving 1M+ users. Specialized in driving product growth by accelerating onboarding, integrating AI/ML capabilities into enterprise platforms, and modernizing cloud architectures. Expert in embedding GenAI into developer workflows (boosting unit test coverage to 95%+) and actively maintaining a hands-on technical edge in the modern AI stack (Python, Pydantic, LLM APIs) to bridge the gap between high-level vision and technical execution.

Demonstrated success in platform consolidation, securing $800M+ in revenue protection and $2M+ in annual savings.

Vice President of Product Engineering at Gartner Inc (2017 – 2025)

• Led end-to-end product engineering for Gartner's flagship B2B SaaS platform serving 1M+ global users, partnering with Product to translate vision into scalable, high-impact customer experiences.
• Drove platform consolidation of CEB and Iconoculture, ensuring seamless customer experience continuity while protecting $800M+ in subscription revenue post-acquisition.
• Enabled measurable product growth by delivering a 40% performance uplift across critical user journeys through multi-layer caching, API optimisation, and front-end rendering improvements.
• Accelerated customer activation and reduced drop-offs by launching modern digital onboarding journey and role-based product experiences for executive and enterprise users.
• Embedded AI/ML-driven personalisation and recommendations into the product by integrating models via APIs, increasing engagement and relevance across key customer segments.
• Modernized the product platform to a cloud-native AWS architecture, migrating from on-prem Oracle to Aurora and delivering $2M+ in annual infrastructure cost savings.
• Increased product delivery velocity and release confidence by implementing GitOps-based CI/CD and Canary deployments, while leveraging GenAI to boost unit test coverage to 95%+.
• Strengthened customer trust and enterprise readiness by integrating Snyk into ArgoCD to prevent vulnerabilities, remediating 7,000+ legacy issues, and leading GDPR and resilience (RTO/RPO) initiatives.
• Built and scaled 8 high-performing product engineering teams (60+ engineers), mentoring senior leaders and fostering a culture of ownership, velocity, and customer-centric execution.

Head of IT Development at CEB (Now Gartner) (2014 – 2016)

• Directed the modernization of member-facing digital products (including 67 business-critical websites) by leading the India Product Engineering teams, improving stability, scalability, and user experience for executive customers.
• Built and scaled a 25-member Global Capability Center (GCC), executing the full insourcing of web platforms to secure company IP and significantly reduce vendor dependency.
• Led the strategic replatforming from Interwoven to Adobe AEM, enabling faster content velocity and product consistency across global digital experiences.
• Executed a comprehensive platform modernization to Adobe AEM 6.3, re-architecting legacy components to ensure continuity while unlocking enterprise-grade scalability (Oak repository).

Senior Technology Architect at Infosys Limited (1998 – 2014)

• Architected and launched a 4.5+ star-rated mobile banking application for Bank of America, contributing to improved customer experience and digital adoption.
• Designed a test automation framework for Cisco that reduced regression execution time by 95%+, accelerating release cycles and improving delivery confidence.
• Progressed through increasingly senior engineering and architecture roles, building deep expertise in scalable systems, enterprise integration, and solution design.

Master of Business Administration in Finance & IT – Anna University, Chennai (1996-01 – 1998-01)

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics – Bharathiar University, Coimbatore (1991-01 – 1995-01)