Hariharan Ragothaman

Software Engineer @ AMD

I am a Lead Software Engineer with 10+ years of industry experience—including 2 years in management—and a strong passion for complex systems design, DevSecOps, Embedded Systems, Distributed Systems. My research interests lie at the intersection of Applied AI, Embedded Systems, and Cloud Computing.

Proficient in Python (3.x), C++17, and Data Structures & Algorithms, I thrive on solving challenging technical problems at scale. I excel at rapidly understanding large codebases and am deeply passionate about problem-solving, product building, and technical leadership.

Highlights: 14 Publications | 11 Conference Talks | 85+ Manuscripts Reviewed | 11 Hackathons Judged

hariharanragothaman.github.io
hariharanragothaman@gmail.com
hariharan.ragothaman@amd.com
@hariharanragothaman
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Education

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Advisor: Yunsi Fei
B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Anna University, Chennai, India

Work Experience

Jan 2025 - Present
Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD), Austin, TX, USA
Software Engineer, Member of Technical Staff, Server Systems Software
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
Bain Capital, Boston, MA, USA
Senior Software Engineer, Platform Services - IT, Private & Strategic Investments
During my brief tenure at Bain Capital—parent company of my former employer, athenahealth—I continued the data engineering efforts. Specifically, I designed and implemented Airflow DAGs and data flows to streamline data warehousing operations, while also contributing to a multi-tenant Airflow architecture that ensured scalability and efficiency across the organization.
Sep 2020 - Dec 2024
athenahealth, Boston, MA, USA
Lead Member of Technical Staff, System Design and Architecture (Manager), Foundational Services, Internal Developer Platform
At athenahealth, my team built a 'Unified Deployment Pipeline' to integrate multiple tech stacks, enhancing service visibility and improving release and product quality. As Lead Member of Technical Staff, I specialized in system design, architecture, and DevSecOps, acting as a domain expert. My responsibilities also included promoting productivity and effectiveness through inclusive collaboration and ownership. I actively designed, developed scalable, secure, and resilient micro-services and deployed infrastructure through code. my team's CI/CD and DevOps initiatives have improved systems and prevented regressions, and drove innovation in technical system development across teams.
July 2015 - Sep 2020
Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA, USA
Embedded Software Engineer, Software and Systems Group
My work revolved around building the next generation of Bose Wearable's - headphones, earbuds & frames. Involved in full stack software development which includes embedded, mobile apps, cloud and built-in security across all layers the stack. Build platforms by architecting reusable building blocks and enabling faster and efficient product creation. Implemented features around Voice prompts, Battery manager, Bluetooth stack and fixed high and critical bugs by deadlines consistently.
Jan 2014 - May 2015
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Research Assistant, Center for Communication and Digital Signal Processing
Designed and developed robotic haptic models for user-system feedback. Simulated an embedded system model for trajectory tracking / control of a robot for telepresence.

Selected Honors and Awards

2024
AI-Driven DevSecOps Excellence Award
Honored for transformative insights and cutting edge research based on the talk - Artificial Intelligence Driven Automation in DevOps, Transforming Security and Resilience at at International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research (ICMR-2024)
2023
athenahealth - Spot Bonus
Awarded in honor of outstanding performance in financial year 2023
2022
Foundational Service Hall of Fame - Impact Award (athenahealth)
Awarded in honor of outstanding performance and impact to business
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Bose Employee Appreciation Awards
Awarded for exceptional performance, outstanding technical contributions and impact to business.
2012
Best Paper Award - Certificate of Excellence at Young Scientists' Convention 2012
Awarded for the paper - 'Establishing Design Routines for Effective Control of Automated Robots'

Publications

Dynamic Secret Injection for Microservices in the Cloud
Advait Patel , Ravi Laudya , Hariharan Ragothaman , Pravin Pandey , Saai Krishnan Udayakumar , Adi Sheth
8th IEEE International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT), Hilo, Hawaii, USA. 2025.
PDF
Leveraging Generative AI for Proactive Cybersecurity Threat Detection in Cloud Environments
Advait Patel , Ravi Laudya , Hariharan Ragothaman , Pravin Pandey , Saai Krishnan Udayakumar , Adi Sheth
8th IEEE International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT), Hilo, Hawaii, USA. 2025.
PDF Best Paper Award
Applying Artificial Intelligence to DevOps - A Study on AI-Driven Anomaly Detection and Predictive Maintenance in Cloud Environments
Advait Patel , Ravi Laudya , Hariharan Ragothaman , Pravin Pandey
1st IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for IoT and Microelectronics (SaTC) , Dayton, Ohio, USA. 2025.
PDF
Generative AI for Automated Security Operations in Cloud Computing
Advait Patel , Pravin Pandey , Hariharan Ragothaman , Ramasankar Molleti , Diwakar Reddy Peddinti
4th IEEE International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity (ICAIC), Houston, Texas, USA. 2025.
PDF
Securing Cloud AI Workloads - Protecting Generative AI Models from Adversarial Attacks
Advait Patel , Pravin Pandey , Hariharan Ragothaman , Ramasankar Molleti , Ajay Tanikonda
4th IEEE International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity (ICAIC), Houston, Texas, USA. 2025.
PDF Best Paper Award
A Novel Dataset and a Hybrid Ensemble Approach for Anomaly Detection in Enterprise-Access-Logs for Anomaly Detection
Hariharan Ragothaman , Saai Krishnan Udayakumar , Kumar Manas Khare
3rd IEEE International Conference on Data Science, Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICDSAAI), Chennai, India. 2025.
Optimizing Service Deployments with NLP based Infrastructure Code generation - An Automation Framework
Hariharan Ragothaman , Saai Krishnan Udayakumar
2nd IEEE International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computer and Information Technology (ICEECIT), Jember, Indonesia. 2024.
PDF
Analysis of Prediction Models and Region of Interest Detection Techniques for Optimized Image Classification
Preetish Kakkar , Hariharan Ragothaman , Amit Bharadwaj , Prashant Singh Rana
6th International Conference on Communication and Intelligent Systems (ICCIS-2024), NIT Bhopal, India. 2024.
Leveraging Large-Language Models based Machine Learning for Sentiment Analysis and Regional Consumer Insights in Amazon Product Reviews
Preetish Kakkar , Srijani Mukherjee , Hariharan Ragothaman , Vishal Mehta
Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications. 2024.
PDF
Physics Based Differentiable Rendering for Inverse Problems and Beyond
Preetish Kakkar , Srijani Mukherjee , Hariharan Ragothaman , Vishal Mehta
Journal of Electrical Systems. 2024.
PDF
The Evolution of Volumetric Video - A Survey of Smart Transcoding and Compression Approaches
Preetish Kakkar , Hariharan Ragothaman
International Journal of Computer Graphics and Animation (IJCGA). 2024.
PDF
Design of Multi-faceted Robot for Agricultural Purposes
Hariharan Ragothaman , Harihar M
Young Scientists' Convention. 2012.
Establishing Design Routines for Efficient Control of Automated Robots
Hariharan Ragothaman , Harihar M , S.K Guhananthan
Young Scientists' Convention. 2012.
PDF Best Paper Award
Efficient Memory Usage in Humanoids
Hariharan Ragothaman , Sneha Prasad
Young Scientists' Convention. 2011.

Memberships

2025
Fellow, Soft Computing Research Society
2025
Associate Member, AI2030
2025
Early Adopter, AI Frontier Network
2024
Member, ACM, Association for Computing Machinery
2024
Senior Member, ISA, International Society of Automation
2024
Senior Member, IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Peer-Reviewing & Judging

2025
Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL-2025) (Reviewer)
2025
7th IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics (Reviewer)
2025
7th IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics (Reviewer)
2025
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (Reviewer)
2025
IEEE Solid State Circuit Society (SSCS) Arduino Contest (Judge, North American Team)
2025
Early Career Professionals Awards Program, IEEE Computer Society (Reviewer)
2025
Veterans Appreciations Challenge, Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP) - 3D Modeling (Judge)
2025
Integrating Security in Cloud-Native Development - A DevSecOps Approach to Resilient Software Systems, IGI Global Publishing (Reviewer)
2025
Vellore Institute of Technology - John Hopkins University (VIT-JHU) Health Hackathon (Judge)
2025
MIT Reality Hack, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA (Judge)
2025
15th IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications & Industrial Electronics (ISCAIE-2025) (Reviewer)
2025
1st International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICSCIS 2025) (Distinguished Reviewer, International Advisory Committee)
2025
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Society Conference, EIS 3.0 (Reviewer)
2025
21st IEEE International Colloquium on Signal Processing & Its Applications (CSPA-2025) (Reviewer)
2025
IEEE 1st International Conference on Materials, Robotics & Automation, Computer, and Control (ICMRACC-2025) (Reviewer)
2025
IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (IEEE EDUCON) (Chair)
2025
23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '25) (Technical Program Committee Chair & Reviewer)
2025
iLRN 2025 - 11th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (Program Committee, Reviewer)
2025
AAAI 2025 Undergraduate Consortium (Reviewer & Mentor)
2024
2024 IEEE International Conference on Augmented Reality, Intelligent Systems, and Industrial Automation (ARIIA-2024) (Chair, International Advisory Committee, Technical Steering Member)
2024
International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research (ICMR-2024) (International Advisory Board Member)
2024
Journal of Open Source Software (Reviewer)
2024
HackUTD - largest running hackathon in Texas, University of Texas, Dallas (Judge)
2024
HackRPI 2024, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's 11th annual intercollegiate hackathon (Judge)
2024
CalHack - World's largest hackathon, University of California, Berkeley (Judge)
2024
International Conference on Data, Computation and Communication - ICDCC 2025 (VIT Bhopal) (Reviewer)
2024
Joint International Scientific Conference - Information Technologies for Intelligent Decision Support (ITIDS-2024) (Reviewer)
2024
Safe Generative AI Workshop @ NeurIPS 2024 (Reviewer)
2024
Machine Learning and Compression Workshop @ NeurIPS 2024 (Reviewer)
2024
Association of Health Learning and Inference - Machine Learning for Health Symposium (ML4H 2024) (Reviewer)
2024
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS-2024) (Reviewer)
2024
2024 IEEE Silchar Subsection Conference, National Institute of Technology, Agartala (Reviewer)
2024
2nd IEEE International Conference on Advancements and Key Challenges in Green Energy and Computing (AKGEC-2024) (Reviewer)
2023
CPPNorth - Canadian C++ Conference (Reviewer)
2018
HackRU - 24-hour hackathon at Rutgers University. (Judge)
2018
Boston Hacks (Judge)
2013
IEEE Business Engineering and Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC-2013) (Technical Program Chair | Reviewer)
2012
International Conference on Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications (ICEDSA-2012) (Technical Program Chair | Reviewer)

Mentees and Interns

Nov 2024 - present
Nicholas Abram at Undergraduate Consortium (AAAI-UC) hosted at the 2025 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25)
Karsh STEM Scholar, Yale Summer Research Fellow, BS in CS at Howard University
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Rachel Miller at athenahealth
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, Carleton College
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Jonathan Liu at Bose Corporation
BS in Computer Science, University of Michigan

Articles and Blogs

Aug 9 2023

Template for Backtracking Problems - Part1 (Basics)

Medium - Backtracking templates to solve competitive programming problems
Aug 28 2023

Frequent Python Recipes for 2D Matrices

Medium - Python Recipes for dealing with two dimensional matrices
Aug 10 2023

Why do we need to index data? | Database Storage and Retrieval

Medium - Top Takeaways from on Database Retrieval from - Design of Data Intensive Applications
Mar 28 2021

How to recursively crawl folders using python?

Medium- Python Quick Recipes to crawl folders
Sep 21 2020

Publisher-Subscriber Model Fundae

Medium - Understanding the Pub-Sub architecture with real examples

Speaking and Press

Feb 26 2025

Technical Speaker | AI Track

IEEE Orange County Section - Speaker Series
Feb 6 2025

Technical Speaker | Data Track

conf42 Python 2025 - Online
Jan 23 2025

Technical Speaker | Scaling Track

conf42 DevOps 2025 - Online
Dec 21 2024

Keynote Speaker | AI Track

IEEE International Conference on Augmented Reality, Intelligent Systems and Industrial Automation (ARIAA 2024)
Dec 15 2024

Technical Speaker | AI Track

International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research (ICMR-2024)
Nov 1 2017

Technical Speaker | Embedded Software Track

Bose Technical Conference (BTC-2017), Title - Improving Code Quality through Continuous Integration Testing
Oct 16 2012

Technical Speaker | Robotics Track

Educators Day, VIMANTRA 2012, National Instruments