Anand Raman
Summary
Strategic Technology Executive with nearly 30 years of leadership experience specializing in scaling high-growth SaaS platforms within the healthcare and regulated market. A proven business partner with a track record of leading organizations through high-stakes transitions, from founding an engineering organization through a $4M ARR PE acquisition to executing large-scale platform consolidations. Expert in aligning technology roadmaps with long-term revenue growth, operational efficiency, and global team development to deliver enterprise-grade results in fast paced environments.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Engineering Leadership
Aline
01.2025 - Current
- Platform Consolidation: Leading the migration of 60+ acquired clients across hundreds of communities to the Aline CRM platform, ensuring $3m ARR revenue continuity and operational stability.
- Enterprise Integration Architecture: Architected and evolved an Azure-native ecosystem leveraging Event Grid, Logic Apps, Function Apps, and Cosmos DB to support high-volume, parallelized processing.
- Financial System Transformation: Led the integration of Sage Intacct, replacing legacy file-based processes with REST API-driven GL synchronization to enhance financial alignment.
- Operational Velocity: Reduced integration onboarding timelines by ~35% through standardized vendor configuration and automated seeding via CI/CD pipelines.
- Platform Observability: Established monitoring and alerting architecture using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights for real-time operational visibility.
Chief Technology Officer
Roobrik
09.2015 - 01.2025
- Foundational Scale & Exit: Architected and built the cloud-first SaaS platform and engineering organization from the ground up, scaling the business to ~$4M ARR and guiding the company through a successful acquisition by Aline.+4
- Data Strategy & Analytics: Strategized and deployed a comprehensive data analytics, ETL platform leveraging business intelligence platform, providing the Sales and Marketing teams with real-time operational intelligence and actionable performance metrics.
- Next-Gen Data Engineering: Orchestrated a migration to Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse/Warehouse) to partition and vectorize data streams, creating the foundational architecture for agentic AI models.
- Consumer Insights & Product Intelligence: Integrated complex data streams with Heap for deep-funnel consumer behavior analysis, delivering automated product insight reports that drove roadmap prioritization.
- Global Organization Building: Scaled a hybrid engineering organization across onshore and offshore teams, implementing squad-based ownership and structured delivery governance.
- Regulated Market Expansion: Implemented HIPAA-aligned security, audit logging, SQL Server governance, and disaster recovery frameworks, enabling the company’s expansion into regulated healthcare markets.
- Strategic Architecture: Designed the platform to support high-volume transactional workflows and seamless CRM integrations, supporting the company's growth from inception to enterprise scale.
- Delivery Excellence: Realized a ~30% improvement in release velocity and a ~35% reduction in onboarding timelines through CI/CD maturity and standardized integration frameworks.
Technology / Architecture Leadership Role
CoreLogic
01.2015 - 09.2015
- Enterprise Data Strategy: Led the architectural design and modernization of high-scale data and analytics platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise-grade governance and compliance standards.
- Architecture Modernization: Spearheaded the transition of legacy systems toward modern governed environments, improving data accessibility and system reliability.
- Consultative Technical Leadership: Served as a subject matter expert to cross-functional teams, driving innovative solutions for complex product challenges and technical bottlenecks.
FOUNDATIONAL & TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
AudienceFUEL Inc. | Batanga | Wachovia Bank | 3M
1996 - 2015
- Director of IT (AudienceFUEL): Architected a Real-Time Bidding (RTB) engine handling 1.4M+ bid requests daily with 100ms response times. Scaled AWS infrastructure to support 50M monthly transactions while reducing IT costs by 40%.
- IT Manager (CleverOnDemand): Built startup IT infrastructure from the ground up, managing server infrastructure and software design while integrating products with 3rd party ad servers (DFP, OpenX) via API.
- Senior Architect (Batanga): Architected a digital media streaming platform reaching 25M+ unique visitors and handling 50M page views per day using C# and SQL Server.
- Team Lead / Senior Architect (Wachovia/Wells Fargo): Designed core IT governance and audit compliance applications, ensuring Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance for enterprise deployment.
- Foundational Engineering (3M & Polaris): Developed public access management systems using smart card technology at 3M and web-based solutions for Citibank Greece.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Madras
IndiaBachelor of Science - Physics
Univeristy of Madras
IndiaSkills
- Platform consolidation
- Integration platforms
- API strategy
- Azure cloud architecture
- Cloud cost optimization
- Migration strategy
- Enterprise system modernization
- Event-driven systems
- Distributed systems
- AI and data strategy
- Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Lake
- SQL Server and data architecture
- C# and NET development
- Azure Logic Apps and Event Grid
- Service Bus and Cosmos DB
- CI/CD methodologies
- Leadership and strategy
- Technology vision
- Roadmap development
- Engineering organization scaling
- Product-engineering alignment
Accomplishments
• Built SaaS platform from inception to ~$4M ARR, culminating in acquisition by PE backed Aline Inc.
• Defined AI roadmap leveraging LLM-based and agentic models to improve sales lead prioritization by ~15–20%.
• Scaled engineering organization global team members with structured delivery governance and squad ownership.
• Leading migration of 60+ clients across hundreds of communities to a unified CRM platform, enabling $3M ARR revenue and retention.
• Reduced cloud infrastructure spend by ~28% through architecture modernization and disciplined cloud governance.
• Implemented HIPAA-aligned governance enabling expansion into regulated healthcare markets.
• Improved deployment cycle time by ~30% through CI/CD standardization and environment governance.
• Reduced client onboarding timelines by 35–40% through modular, reusable integration frameworks.
• Defined AI roadmap leveraging LLM-based and agentic models to improve sales lead prioritization by ~15–20%.
• Scaled engineering organization global team members with structured delivery governance and squad ownership.
• Leading migration of 60+ clients across hundreds of communities to a unified CRM platform, enabling $3M ARR revenue and retention.
• Reduced cloud infrastructure spend by ~28% through architecture modernization and disciplined cloud governance.
• Implemented HIPAA-aligned governance enabling expansion into regulated healthcare markets.
• Improved deployment cycle time by ~30% through CI/CD standardization and environment governance.
• Reduced client onboarding timelines by 35–40% through modular, reusable integration frameworks.
Timeline
Senior Engineering Leadership
Aline
01.2025 - Current
Chief Technology Officer
Roobrik
09.2015 - 01.2025
Technology / Architecture Leadership Role
CoreLogic
01.2015 - 09.2015
FOUNDATIONAL & TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
AudienceFUEL Inc. | Batanga | Wachovia Bank | 3M
1996 - 2015
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Madras
Bachelor of Science - Physics
Univeristy of Madras