I am Ram Iyer, a Senior engineering leader with over 15 years of experience leading high-performing global teams in delivering innovative solutions for media, publishing, and healthcare companies. I am skilled in full-stack development, DevOps, cloud architecture, and implementing robust security protocols. I value servant leadership, mentoring, and promoting diversity.
I am based in the tri-state area. I am currently working as Director of Engineering at Teladoc Health in Purchase, NY. I am a polyglot and the computer languages of interest are Ruby, Golang, Python, JavaScript & TypeScript. Since 2021 I have been focusing on Event Driven Architecture with Kafka.
I have managed teams with varying sizes from 5 to 30 developers. My passion is to build distributed, autonomous & engaged teams that work closely with the other departments. I have collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop strategic roadmap and involved in overseeing architecture for my teams. I always focus on scalability and supportability for the software that my team designs.
These are some of the books that I have read and influenced my leadership and technology journey: Servant Leadership Action, Zero to One, It doesn't have to be crazy at work, The Pragmattic Programmer, The Phoenix Project, Start with Why, Essentialism, On Design Thinking, Talent is overrated.
My hobbies include playing guitar, saxophone and bamboo flute (bansuri).