Ragavan S

VP, Product

2023 - Current

Responsible Innovation

2022 - 2023

Looking to partner with founders applying AI/ML to transform industries & build enduring businesses.

Partner

2022 - 2023

Head of Product, Facebook AI

2012 - 2021

[2016 - ] I lead the Product Management function for Facebook AI. We are a central innovation team. We build state of the art AI/ML technologies, platforms and experiences for all of Facebook Inc, spanning research to production. [2014 - 2016] I helped define Facebook's Android strategy and drove cross-company teams that built products to implement this strategy. These products covered a broad surface area including: Maps, Push Notifications, App Distribution Services, solutions for mobile operators and device manufacturers and more. [2012 - 2014] I led product teams that built the native version of Facebook's Android app. We built an app that crashed less, started up much faster, reduced data usage significantly and made the people who used it measurably happier. I've been the product champion for Android inside Facebook, including getting us to focus on building experiences for the typical phone/connection/user in emerging markets.

Director of Product, Apps

2009 - 2012

I lead Product Management for Mozilla's HTML5 Apps initiative. We are building a user-centric Apps ecosystem that combines the best elements of the app model with the best elements of the Web. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Apps/Roadmap for more details. Graduated Firefox Sync from Mozilla Labs and shipped as integrated feature in Firefox 4 to 400M+ users on desktop and mobile (http://firefox.com/sync) Shipped 1.0 of Firefox Home, Mozilla's first iPhone App in 15+ languages.

Vice President, Founder

2008 - 2011

Kids on Computers is working to set up computer labs running free/open source software for schools in developing countries.

Program Manager - Open Source

2007 - 2009

Open source @ VMware. open-vm-tools, packages.vmware.com etc.

Open Source Program Office

2001 - 2007