Ramana Satyavarapu

CTO at Nium

Speaker

Based in San Francisco, Ramana leads Nium’s global engineering, strategy, and its vision for Modern Money Movement. He is responsible for managing the company’s core technology– guiding the strategy and organizing the formulation and implementation of major technical decisions–that support Nium’s business programs and facilitates revenue growth. Ramana brings with him more than 20 years of software engineering expertise from companies including Microsoft, Google, Uber, Two Sigma, and Finix. Prior to joining Nium, he served as the CTO of Finix where he led engineering, product, and technical support. He started his career with Microsoft in 2001, serving as a founding member of Office 365, which was released globally in 2011. Following his time at Microsoft, he joined Google to spearhead Google Cloud Search effort, which was successfully launched in 2016. At Two Sigma, he led the pioneering effort to create a knowledge graph derived from over 71 petabytes of global finance data and successfully adopted clustering ML techniques to derive quantitative strategies. Ramana holds a master's degree in computer science from Arizona State University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Andhra University. He also completed executive education programs in leadership and strategy from Harvard Business School.