VP - Engineering at HighRadius | SaaS Engineering Leader | Passionate Product Builder | Patent Holder

Srini Rapaka

Scale Engineering Leader with 17+ years of hands on development & engineering leadership across diverse technologies and multiple products; Delivered upon multiple 0-1 and 1-100 product journeys. Passionate about building scalable and high performance products and platforms that deliver business outcomes.  Pragmatic business problem solver who can go over and beyond to solve any kind of abstract problem; across product, process and people. 

Currently, heading the team that deliver upon the 'Automation and Intelligence' layer of Order to Cash and drives engineering productivity from interns through playbooks and effective Learning & Development program. Excited and humbled to have impacted 800+ clients and 200+ fortune 2000 companies through a decade of rollercoaster and growth journey with a Global software leader for the Office of the CFO space.

- Scale Engineering Leader handling diverse engineering portfolio and contributing to the 'Automation and Intelligence' product initiatives for Order to Cash
- Responsible for all disruptive and complex technology initiatives: RPA, Analytics, Autonomous user experience, Digital assistant, Configuration Data Management and Migration
- Lead various platform designs and deployments: No Code AutoML platform(Rivana), Low Code Analytics Platform, Low Code RPA framework for building bots, Call and Email platform as a service
- Drive high performance engineering culture from a team of 120+ full stack product engineers
- Created a flagship internship program that enables interns to deliver productive work with high business impact and enables us to hire top young talent at scale; deeply infused with HighRadius culture.

VP of Engineering

- Engineering leader responsible for driving Analytics product adoption; building Autonomous Credit product; delivering 1k+ RPA bots on web and email
- Delivered upon engineering playbooks to help drive productivity from interns and scale fresh blood from universities to deliver as POD leads
- Grew the engineering organization from 8 to 50+ software engineers and architects at our new location: Bhubaneswar

AVP - Engineering

- Engineering leader for Global E-Invoicing and Payments Cloud; a core vertical of Order to Cash that supported 20k+ buyers to login to their supplier portals, view invoices, dispute and make online payments.
- Lead a team of 30+ engineers and architects to scale this product in it's 1-100 journey
- Launched HighRadius' first mobile application to support mobile check payments
- Collaborated with product management, documentation, UX teams to deliver upon product roadmaps
- Collaborated with consulting, customer value and support teams for SLA adherence, faster go lives and providing sustainable value to live customers. 
- Top grade interviewer for engineering talent hiring across teams
- Go to solution person for any complex and critical problem across entire Order to Cash
- Introduced several scalable engineering best practices for faster deployment. Example: Highly Available Dev environment for code deployment

Director Of Engineering

- Lead engineering architecture and delivery for 4 products or bolt on solutions on SAP Receivable Management: Credit, Dispute, Advanced Correspondence and B2B Payments
- Developed HEX module that served as the SAP connector to HighRadius cloud solution
- Developed ECI(Enterprise Cloud Integration) module for streamlining the interface consumption process for HighRadius cloud products
- Collaborated with product managers, consulting and support for serving all engineering requirements
- Enabled sales and marketing for filling technical details in RFPs and demo systems
- Managed a team of 15-20 ABAP and Java developers for delivering upon various on premise and cloud solutions
- Established as go to SAP expert within HighRadius

Engineering Manager

- Lead for technical architecture & engineering deliverables for Credit Decision Accelerator & B2B Payments on SAP:  HighRadius bolt on solution on SAP Receivable Management
- Created a consulting team to implement SAP Biller Direct module
- Collaborated with product managers for engineering estimates, publishing tech design documents and drive delivery from my team
- Extended support to consulting during implementations and worked on support tickets; thus completing the customer feedback loop with product
- Collaborate with consulting teams for better & efficient implementation of the product
- Work with support teams to create a feedback loop from support to product,

Engineering Team Lead - II

- Lead for technical architecture & engineering deliverables for Credit Decision Accelerator: HighRadius bolt on solution on SAP Receivable Management 
- Collaborated with product manager for engineering estimates, publishing tech design documents and drive delivery from my team
- Extended support to consulting during implementations and worked on support tickets; thus completing the customer feedback loop with product

Engineering Team Lead - I

-Designing & implementing interfaces for integrating SAP with MES and other manufacturing related IT applications using middleware technologies like SAP PI, SAP MII, web services etc.  
- Developing MII custom actions, BLS transactions, XML Mapping
- Designing & Developing application features in the area of MES.
- Owned all the SAP related activities in the organization.

Associate Technical Manager

Worked on the re-architecture of SAP IS-H solution. Totally into ABAP module pool programming, reports & function modules.

Software Developer

Worked as project intern on developing a in house application using Java WebDynpro.