Ranjith Varakantam

Ranjith Varakantam

Over 20 years in IT, 10 plus years of which have been hands-on Agile Development - working with geographically distributed teams. Along with proven leadership in product development, integration services, IT operations, and enterprise data strategy.

Love building new products and services that connect people, in an authentic way by leveraging a shareable ecosystem. Pursue ideas with gusto and persevere on a chosen few, even it means starting small. Like taking up projects that enable optimization of resources through sharing, reuse, and redistribution.

Areas of focus were solutions delivery utilizing Agile Development practices, globally distributed teams, define product strategy and execution road map, Big data management, and business development support.

As a practitioner of mindfulness, believe in establishing priorities that contribute to the team’s well-being and create a supportive environment for professional and personal growth.

Myers-Briggs Type Personality Indicator: INFJ (THE ADVOCATE)

Top 5 Strengths: Based on Gallup's (Clifton) StrengthsFinder assessment:

1. Strategic: Enables one to see patterns where others simply see complexity.

2. Intellection: Brings focus when trying to solve a problem or develop an idea.

3. Individualization: Helps in building productive teams maximizing individual strengths.

4. Deliberative: Draw risks out into the open - identifying, assessing, and ultimately reducing the risks.

5. Connectedness: Bridge builder for people of different cultures and values.