Ramesh Sarukkai

Founder Prajna.ai & Faculty UC Berkeley at CPTO Rate

Speaker

Rate’s Chief Product and Technology Officer Ramesh Sarukkai is a veteran technologist who spent the past two decades in Silicon Valley leading the development and delivery of high-scale consumer and business products (hundreds of millions of users, multi-billion-dollar businesses). He has worked across a wide variety of sectors including financial systems, payments, commerce, advertising, media/video technologies, machine learning and applied intelligence. Prior to joining Rate, he headed up Engineering/Product groups at Braintree/PayPal, led Payments at Facebook and bootstrapped YouTube monetization teams at Google.

“Rate is well known as an innovative leader in digital financial services,” said Sarukkai. “The core value to ‘Think Big’ is something that I have always embraced. I am excited to be part of Rate’s leadership team as we continue to transform the mortgage industry and expand our Fintech offerings.”

Sarukkai holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Rochester. He is the author of Foundations of Web Technology, holds more than 50 patents (issued/pending) and is a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley.