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: 28 Publications | 22 Conference Talks | 85+ Manuscripts Reviewed | 11 Hackathons Judged
Education
M.S. in Electrical and Computer EngineeringNortheastern University, Boston, USA
Advisor:
Yunsi Fei
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
Contributed to the development of next-generation Bose speakers, home theaters, Wearables, including headphones, earbuds, and frames, by delivering full-stack software across embedded systems, mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, and security layers. Key contributions included feature development for voice prompts, battery management, and Bluetooth stack enhancements for ECO2 products. Led Bluetooth stack integration for Bose Frames (Olivia & Vedder), optimized Qualcomm platform performance, and resolved high-priority bugs during critical product launches such as Taylor and NC-700. Consistently met aggressive deadlines, earning the Excellent Award and a CEO recognition letter. Architected reusable software building blocks to accelerate product development cycles and supported strategic patent initiatives and industry partnerships.
Research Experience
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.
Dec 2011 - Apr 2013
Electrical Technocrats Association, Chennai, TN, India
Projects Director, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Led the full lifecycle of new R&D initiatives—securing funding, assembling cross‑functional teams, and driving projects to completion—while mentoring Electrical & Electronics students on both self‑directed research and E‑cube/ETA‑funded work. In parallel, collaborated with the reverse‑engineering wing to deliver hands‑on training in Arduino prototyping, PSpice circuit simulation, and MATLAB analysis.
Selected Honors & Awards
2025
Recognized for exceptional expertise and innovation in Identity Governance and Access Management (IGAM), enhancing secure access and compliance across systems.
2025
Awarded for groundbreaking use of Artificial Intelligence to drive innovative solutions and advancements in cloud computing technologies.
2025
For demonstrated outstanding leadership, innovation, and impact in advancing cybersecurity practices and protecting digital infrastructure.
2025
Awarded for the paper - 'Leveraging Generative AI for Proactive Cybersecurity Threat Detection in Cloud Environments'
2025
Awarded for the paper - 'Securing Cloud AI Workloads - Protecting Generative AI Models from Adversarial Attacks'
2024
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
Awarded in honor of outstanding performance in financial year 2023
2022
Awarded in honor of outstanding performance and impact to business
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Awarded for exceptional performance, outstanding technical contributions and impact to business.
2012
Awarded for the paper - 'Establishing Design Routines for Effective Control of Automated Robots'
Publications
Agentic AI for Autonomous Cyber Threat Hunting and Adaptive Defense in Dynamic Security Environments
Advait Patel
,
Charit Upadhyay
,
Adit Sheth
,
Hariharan Ragothaman
IEEE Conference on Electro/Information Technology, EIT 2025, Valparaiso University, Indiana, USA. 2025.
AI-Powered Encryption Techniques - Safeguarding Cloud Infrastructure
Advait Patel
,
Hariharan Ragothaman
,
Milavkumar Shah
,
Adit Sheth
,
Charit Upadhyay
,
Pravin Pandey
,
Saai Krishnan Udayakumar
IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CAI 2025, SantaClara, California, USA. 2025.
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.
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
Cloud Security and Data Protection in Hybrid Environments, Strategies, Challenges and Best Practices
Advait Patel
,
Hariharan Ragothaman
IGI Global Publishing. 2025.
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.
Real-Time Emotion Detection in AR Mental Health Applications Using Sentiment Analysis Algorithms
Hariharan Ragothaman
,
Arjun Jaggi
,
Jagbir Singh
,
Sapaev Sindor
,
Eshchanova Nasiba
,
Aniket Adarsh
1st IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics, and Communication Technologies (CE2CT). 2025.
Augmented Reality for Enhanced Surgical Precision - A Framework for Real-Time Visualization and Navigation
Jagbir Singh
,
Jagadeesh Vedula
,
Hariharan Ragothaman
,
Shojonov Muzaffar
,
Urazbaeva Yulduz
,
Satendra Pratap Singh
1st IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics, and Communication Technologies (CE2CT). 2025.
Personalized Healthcare Monitoring Through AR Wearables and Predictive Analytics Algorithms
Jagbir Singh
,
Hariharan Ragothaman
,
Arjun Jaggi
,
Ogabek Solaev
,
Urazbayeva Dilbar
,
Akanksha Chauhan
1st IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics, and Communication Technologies (CE2CT). 2025.
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.
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.
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.
Physics Based Differentiable Rendering for Inverse Problems and Beyond
Preetish Kakkar
,
Srijani Mukherjee
,
Hariharan Ragothaman
,
Vishal Mehta
Journal of Electrical Systems. 2024.
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.
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.
Technical Blogs & Thought Leadership
April 23 2025
Why do we need explicit keyword in C++?
Aug 9 2023
Template for Backtracking Problems - Part1 (Basics)
Aug 28 2023
Frequent Python Recipes for 2D Matrices
Aug 10 2023
Why do we need to index data? | Database Storage and Retrieval
Mar 28 2021
How to recursively crawl folders using python?
Sep 21 2020
Publisher-Subscriber Model Fundae
Invited Technical Talks, Keynotes & Press
Oct 8 2025
WebRTC Under Constraint - Emulating Embedded Devices with a Virtual Test Lab
Sept 9 2025
Unified DevSecOps Pipelines - Accelerating Secure Deployments with NLP and JFrog XRAY
May 14 2025
Building Resilience - Revolutionizing Application Security with Unified Deployments with Unified Deployments and Automated SBOM
April 5 2025
Uncovering 100K Security Violations - Strengthening Application Security through Unified Deployments, XRAY Integration and Automated SBOM Generation
Feb 26 2025
Advancing Healthcare Security with DevSecOps - Initiatives and Industry Insights | AI Track
Feb 6 2025
C++ and Python - Building Robust Applications by Offloading Compute-Heavy Workloads | Data Track
Jan 23 2025
Securely Unifying Deployments in an Organization for Increased Governance | Scaling Track
Dec 21 2024
DevSecOps in Action - Building Resilient and Secure Distributed Systems| AI Track
Dec 15 2024
Artificial Intelligence Driven Automation in DevOps - Transforming Security and Resilience | AI Track
Nov 1 2017
Improving Code quality through Continuous integration Testing | Embedded Software Track
Oct 16 2012
Establishing Design Routines for Effective Control of Automated Robots & Amelioration of Swing free maneuvers of Quad rotor with Suspended Payload | Robotics Track
Reviewer Activities
2025
Software-X
(Elsevier Journal)
2025
2025
2025
2025
IEEE 8th International Conference on Electrical, Control and Computer Engineering, Malaysia
(InECCE 2025)
2025
2025
2025
2025
2025
2025
15th IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications & Industrial Electronics, Penang Island, Malaysia
(ISCAIE-2025)
2025
Integrating Security in Cloud-Native Development - A DevSecOps Approach to Resilient Software Systems
(IGI Global Publishing)
2025
ICLR 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild, Singapore
(ICLR 2025 FM-Wild Workshop)
2025
Deep Generative Model in Machine Learning - Theory, Principle and Efficacy, Singapore
(ICLR 2025 DeLTa Workshop)
2025
21st IEEE International Colloquium on Signal Processing & Its Applications, Langkawi Island, Malaysia
(CSPA-2025)
2025
2024
Machine Learning and Compression Workshop
(NeurIPS 2024)
2024
Association of Health Learning and Inference - Machine Learning for Health Symposium, San Diego, California
(ML4H 2024)
2024
2024
2024
2024
Joint International Scientific Conference - Information Technologies for Intelligent Decision Support
(ITIDS-2024)
2024
Safe Generative AI Workshop, Vancouver, Canada
(NeurIPS 2024)
2024
2024
2nd IEEE International Conference on Advancements and Key Challenges in Green Energy and Computing, India
(AKGEC-2024)
Synergistic Activities
2025
Judge - North American Team –
IEEE Solid State Circuit Society Arduino Contest
(SSCS)
2025
2025
2024, 2025
2025
2025
2024
2024
Judge –
Largest running hackathon in Texas, University of Texas, Dallas
(HackUTD)
2024
Judge –
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's 11th annual intercollegiate hackathon
(HackRPI 2024)
2024
2019
Judge –
24-hour hackathon at Rutgers University.
(HackRU)
2019
Judge –
Hackathon at Georgia Institute of Technology
(HackGT)
2019
Judge –
BU Hacks at Boston University
2018
Scientific & Technical Leadership
2025
Technical Program Committee Member –
IEEE USA Government Relations R&D Policy Committee
(RDPC)
2025
Mentor, Technical Program Committee Member –
39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI-UC 2025)
2025
Technical Program Committee Member –
IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, London, UK
(IEEE EDUCON 2025)
2025
Mentor –
IEEE Computer Society, Supercharge Your Career - Micro Mentoring Initiative
(IEEE-CS-SYP)
2025
Technical Program Committee Member –
23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, SantaClara, USA
(FAST 2025)
2025
Technical Program Committee Member –
11th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network
(iLRN 2025)
2025
International Technical Committee –
IEEE 1st International Conference on Materials, Robotics & Automation, Computer, and Control
(ICMRACC-2025)
2024
Session Chair, International Advisory Committee, Technical Steering Member –
IEEE International Conference on Augmented Reality, Intelligent Systems, and Industrial Automation
(ARIIA-2024)
2025
Distinguished Reviewer, International Advisory Committee –
1st International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Intelligent Systems
(ICSCIS 2025)
2024
International Advisory Board Member –
International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research
(ICMR-2024)
2023, 2024, 2025
Technical Program Committee Member –
Canadian C++ Conference
(CPPNorth)
2013
Technical Program Committee Member –
IEEE Business Engineering and Industrial Applications Colloquium
(BEIAC-2013)
2012
Technical Program Committee Member –
International Conference on Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications
(ICEDSA-2012)
Memberships
2025
Full Member, Sigma Xi Honor Society
2025
Fellow, IICSPA, International Institute of Computer Science Professional Association
2025
Fellow, SCRS, Soft Computing Research Society
2025
Fellow, IOASD, International Organization for Academic and Scientific Development
2025
Member, HIMSS, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
2025
Member, CyberRisk Collaborative Community
2025
Fellow, SAS, Scholars Academic and Scientific Society
2025
People Cert Ambassador, DevOps Institute
2025
Mentor / Advisor, American Corporate Partners - Veterans Mentorship Program
2025
Associate Member, AI2030
2025
Early Adopter, AI Frontier Network
2025
Member, AAAI, Association of Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
2024
Senior Member, ISA, International Society of Automation
2024
Senior Member, IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2024
Member, ACM, ACM-SIGSOFT, ACM-SIGBED, Association for Computing Machinery
Mentees & Interns
March 2025 - Present
United States Marine Corps Veteran
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Karsh STEM Scholar, Yale Summer Research Fellow, BS in CS at Howard University
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, Carleton College
May 2019 - Aug 2019
BS in Computer Science, University of Michigan