User:Balajir12/Balaji Raghavan

Balaji Raghavan (born 12 July 1981) is an Indian-American technology executive. He is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Uniphore Inc.

Early life and Education
Balaji was born in New Delhi, India. His father, Srinivasan Raghavan, was a pharmaceutical executive, and his mother, Jayanthi Raghavan, is a homemaker.

Balaji did his schooling mostly in Pune and earned his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from Pune Institute of Computer Technology. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Career
Balaji dropped his plans to pursue a doctoral degree when he got an offer from Google where he joined in 2004 as a Software Engineer and started work in the Google Ads team. His passion to work on large-scale storage systems drove him towards Gmail which was the product he helped build and scale through the next decade. In that period, he also was responsible for building the backend infrastructure for several Google Workspace products like Calendar, Drive, Keep, etc.

In November 2015, Balaji left Google to start his venture, FinitePaths, which was on a mission to find the most relevant answers to everyday questions for its users. FinitePaths was acquired by Lyft in 2017 where Balaji then worked as a Vice President of Engineering leading the Rideshare Marketplace, Mapping and Machine Learning initiatives.