Rk Raghavendra Kulkarni
About Rk Raghavendra Kulkarni
Rk Raghavendra Kulkarni serves as the Vice President of Security and Cloud Architecture at Noodle.ai, where he has worked since 2022. With a background in cloud transition strategies and risk management, he has held various engineering roles at Noodle.ai and other companies over the past two decades.
Current Role at Noodle.ai
Rk Raghavendra Kulkarni serves as the Vice President of Security and Cloud Architecture at Noodle.ai. He has held this position since 2022, contributing to the company's strategic direction in security and cloud services. His responsibilities include enhancing the company's security perimeter and focusing on data, application, and information security.
Previous Experience at Noodle.ai
Prior to his current role, Kulkarni worked at Noodle.ai in various capacities. He served as an Enterprise Cloud Architect from 2019 to 2022, where he was responsible for planning the migration from datacenter to AWS. He also held positions as a Principal Infrastructure Engineer from 2018 to 2019 and as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer from 2017 to 2018.
Professional Background
Kulkarni has a diverse professional background, having worked at several organizations. He was a Technical Specialist at MindTree Ltd. from 2009 to 2011 and later served as a Technical Lead from 2011 to 2014. His experience also includes a role as a System Engineer III in Site Reliability Engineering at Thermo Fisher Scientific from 2014 to 2017.
Education and Academic Involvement
Rk Raghavendra Kulkarni studied at Karnatak University, where he earned a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Electronics from 2000 to 2002 and a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Electronics from 1997 to 2000. He also served as a Guest Lecturer in the Department of Electronics at Karnatak University from 2002 to 2006.
Expertise in Cloud and Security Architecture
Kulkarni has demonstrated expertise in cloud transition strategies, particularly in migrating infrastructures to AWS. He plays a key role in risk assessment and management, contributing to governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) architecture. His experience includes building multi-tenant infrastructure architecture, essential for scalable cloud solutions, and involvement in platform engineering for SaaS product development.