Nithya Rajagopalan

Nithya Rajagopalan is an accomplished technology leader with extensive experience in product engineering and software development. Currently serving as Director at LinkedIn since June 2022, Nithya previously held the position of Senior Director of Product Engineering at SAP from September 2016 to June 2022. Before that, Nithya was a Technical Leader at IBM India Software Labs, where leadership responsibilities included managing the Rational Publishing Engine product within the Internet of Things-Continuous Engineering portfolio, successfully transitioning it to a web-based offering. Nithya's career also includes roles as Principal Software Engineer at Cisco Systems and Associate Solution Architect at HP. Nithya holds a Master of Science in Software Systems from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from Bangalore University, supplemented by a leadership program at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.