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Rajesh T Sivanandan
Site Leader, ECS India · Senior Director, Head of Engineering (APAC) @ Unisys · IIM Lucknow (GSLP, COO Track)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · rsivanandan@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/rsivanandan
Summary
Engineering executive with 25+ years leading global technology organizations across AI/ML, cybersecurity, and platform modernization. Currently Site Leader for ECS India and Senior Director, Head of Engineering (APAC) at Unisys, managing budget, compensation, and workforce strategy for a 400-member organization that delivers the majority of product output behind a $400M+ annual revenue business unit. Proven track record building and scaling engineering capability centers across India, US, and APAC, driving cloud-native and AI-native transformation.
Career Highlights
- Scaling APAC engineering, now ~400 engineers across three countries, delivering the majority of product output behind a $400M+ revenue business unit.
- Built a 3-week AI POC generating a full application onto ClearPath; secured COO greenlight for a new product line.
- Cut voluntary attrition from 18%+ to 6.96% and hiring drop-out from 70% to 20%; promoted 22 people internally this year.
- Reached 53% automation coverage and an 18% efficiency gain, then redeployed the freed capacity without a single layoff.
Experience
Unisys
Bengaluru, India
Senior Director | R&D Leadership | Enterprise Computing Solutions
January 2026 - Present- ▪ Site Leader for the entire ECS group in India, representing ECS on the India Leadership Team with unified oversight of Solution Development, Security Development, and Support Services.
- ▪ Head of APAC Engineering, ~400 engineers across India, Australia, and China, setting technical strategy and owning delivery commitments across the portfolio.
- ▪ Manage budget, compensation, and workforce planning across three countries, including annual increments and variable pay cycles.
- ▪ Spearheaded CPF-2050: a 33-item product portfolio to modernize and infuse AI into ClearPath systems, each item carried to a business case.
- ▪ Launched ECS' first new-logo product initiative in over a decade — an AI-native offering for building on ClearPath — proved via a 3-week POC (REST services to UI, full database persistence) demoed to the COO with a greenlight to proceed.
- ▪ Run succession planning across 29 mapped single-point-dependency risks, each with a tracked knowledge-transfer plan.
Engineering Director
July 2020 - January 2026- ▪ Member of the APAC Leadership Team for India, China & Australia.
- ▪ Grew and led a centralized organization from 70+ to 100+ engineers across On-Prem and SaaS offerings for Federal and Enterprise clients.
- ▪ Owned engineering quality for the entire Clear Path Forward line: two mainframe operating systems and 10+ business applications serving large financial institutions and corporates.
- ▪ Built an Automation CoE reaching 53% automation coverage in 4 years (11 of 16 programs above 50%) and an 18% efficiency gain — redeployed the freed capacity without a single layoff.
- ▪ Led the Hiring Tiger Team, cutting offer drop-out rates from ~70% to 20%; founded the Leadership Development Programme.
- ▪ Established a centralized product security practice aligned to major industry standards; introduced client-centric validation that surfaced 300+ defects before release.
Senior Engineering Manager
March 2019 - June 2020- ▪ Took ownership of all quality deliverables for the India Technology Center, having previously managed a direct team of 20.
Senior Engineering Manager, Stealth™
May 2018 - February 2019- ▪ Led engineering for Stealth's core security components (micro-segmentation) and third-party SIEM integrations.
- ▪ Partnered with GTM and Sales on Zero Trust Security Solutions as security architect, including client visits to two Indian airport clients (AAI & BIAL).
Independent — Network & Security Consulting
Bengaluru, India
Entrepreneur
January 2016 - December 2017- ▪ Network consulting and maintenance; Active Directory and data centre operations.
- ▪ DevSecOps pipelines, including vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and threat mitigation.
Juniper Networks India
Bengaluru, India
Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud & Network Management
May 2006 - November 2015- ▪ Led a team of 20 engineers across development and test; promoted six times over ~10 years, from MTS-3 to Senior Engineering Manager.
- ▪ Key project: uCPE Platform, a cloud-based network orchestration solution built for Telstra (Australia) and other US & EMEA ISPs.
- ▪ Delivered 16 major releases of the JunOS Space Platform, leading the program from scratch on agile principles.
- ▪ Delivered Network Activate for MPLS provisioning and led NSM/STRM deliveries in partnership with Q1 Labs.
- ▪ Acted as key security SME bridging engineering and Sales, running live product demos for customers.
Lutheran Home & Services Inc
Illinois, USA
Senior Infosec Analyst / Senior Network Admin
August 2005 - April 2006- ▪ Rebuilt the enterprise network end to end in 9 months and authored the organization's HIPAA-aligned security policies from scratch for a 1000+ person organization.
HCL Technologies
Chennai, India
Lead QA Engineer (Cisco Offshore Development Centre)
April 2003 - August 2005- ▪ Recognized security SME across the organization; established a knowledge-management practice covering network security and cryptography.
- ▪ Filed a patent idea for update propagation across meshed IDS/IPS devices.
NEC BNS
Irving, TX, USA
Lead Network / Security Engineer
December 2000 - April 2003iLoka Inc
Bengaluru, India
Junior Networking Engineer
April 2000 - December 2000Education
Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
Global Senior Leadership Program (GSLP), COO Specialization — Batch 03
University of Calicut
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Govt. College of Engineering, Kannur, Kerala
Certifications
Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE, Theory)
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Cisco Security Specialist 1 (CSS-1)
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
F-Secure Certified VPN & Firewall Specialist
Skills
Languages
English
Full Professional
Hindi
Full Professional
Tamil
Native
Malayalam
Native