Sridhar Ratakonda

Sridhar Ratakonda began their career in 1992 as a Software Analyst at Harvard University. Sridhar then moved to Fidelity Investments in 1993 as a Software Engineer. In 1997, they became a Principal Consultant at Cascade Communications. Two years later, they joined Monterey Networks as a Software Architect. In 2002, they moved to Cisco Systems as a Sr. Product Manager, Cybersecurity, and Sr. Manager, Software Development. In 2016, they founded Predactica\u2122 - An AI powered personal data scientist for business teams, where they served as the Founder and principal architect. Sridhar designed the platform using open source technologies like Apache Spark, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Sridhar was responsible for products totaling ~$140M/year and successfully launched an enterprise Wi-Fi handset for healthcare verticals meeting stringent HIPPA and data encryption requirements. Sridhar also authored requirements to ensure IoT/VoIP endpoints met stringent security standards for DoD market.

Sridhar Ratakonda's education history includes a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University from 1985 to 1989, a Master of Science in Computer Science from Louisiana State University from 1989 to 1991, and a Master of Business Administration in Business Administration and Management, General from Texas McCombs School of Business from 2007 to 2009. Sridhar also holds certifications from Snowflake, Udacity, and Stanford University. The Snowflake Sales Pro certification was obtained in November 2022, the Natural Language Processing Nanodegree was obtained in July 2020, the Deep Learning Nanodegree was obtained in August 2018, and the Stanford University/Machine Learning certification was obtained in February 2017.