Jaikumar Ramanathan

Current

• Engineering Manager at LinkedIn
• CTO/Founder at Wayfarer Technology

Past

• Principal Yahoo!/Sr. Manager at Yahoo!
• Principal Engineer at Metreo
• Consultant Architect at various (Self-employed)

• Founder at LastLeap
• Technical Lead at Healtheon/WebMD
• Sr. Staff Engineer at BroadVision
• Member Technical Staff at Sun Microsystems

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Education

• Stanford University
• Clemson University

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Connections

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Industry

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Jaikumar Ramanathan’s Summary

I'm a software technologist who has launched internet consumer applications, facebook applications, and enterprise applications. I like to keep things simple and am a fan of the 37signals ‘Getting Real’ philosophy. At the same time, I'm a pragmatist who understands that there isn't a ‘one size fits all solution’.

I enjoy technical management and leadership and have led engineers to many successful releases of high quality web applications. I believe in fast iterative development using agile methodologies. I enjoy mentoring and helping people find and focus on their strengths.

Jaikumar Ramanathan’s Specialties:

Technical Leadership, Technical Management, Agile Software Development, Entrepreneurship, Web 2.0, Isolating and Fixing Performance Problems in complex multi-tiered software, doing whatever it takes

Jaikumar Ramanathan’s Experience

• Engineering Manager

  LinkedIn

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  December 2008 — Present (1 year )

  I manage the Light Engineering Development (LED) group that develops LinkedIn Mobile, LinkedIn Polls, LinkedIn Events, and LinkedIn Company Buzz. We use the Ruby on Rails framework for fast iterations on new products and features.

• CTO/Founder

  Wayfarer Technology

  (Internet industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

• Principal Yahoo!/Sr. Manager

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  February 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 7 months)

• Principal Engineer

  Metreo

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2002 — January 2006 (3 years 9 months)

• Consultant Architect

  various (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  January 2001 — May 2002 (1 year 5 months)

• Founder

  LastLeap

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2000 — December 2000 (8 months)

• Technical Lead

  Healtheon/WebMD

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; HLTH; Computer Software industry)

  October 1997 — May 2000 (2 years 8 months)

• Sr. Staff Engineer

  BroadVision

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 1996 — October 1997 (1 year 1 month)

• Member Technical Staff

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)

  September 1990 — August 1996 (6 years )

Jaikumar Ramanathan’s Education

• Stanford University

  MS , Computer Science , 1988 — 1990

• Clemson University

  BS , Computer Science , 1985 — 1988

Additional Information

Jaikumar Ramanathan’s Groups:

•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Yahoo Alums
•    Stanford CS Alumni
•    iPhone Developers - www.iPhoneintouch.com
•    Stanford University Alumni
•    Cocoa and Cocoa Touch Developers
•    Tech Talk Conversations
•    NoSQL
•    White House
•    LinkedIn for BlackBerry

Jaikumar Ramanathan’s Honors:

U.S. Patent 5,655,121 awarded - "Method and apparatus for encoding data to be self-describing", 1997
U.S. Patent 5,732,399 awarded - "Method and apparatus for associating calendar events with contextual information and other calendar events", 1998

Jaikumar Ramanathan’s Contact Settings

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