Hariharan Ragothaman currently serves as a Software Engineer at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (AMD), where he leads the US Server Validation team for next-generation AI servers, data centers, and GPUs. Prior to joining AMD in January 2025, he held the position of Lead Member of Technical Staff in System Design and Architecture at athenahealth, where he unified deployment pipelines for micro and macro services, developed scalable micro-services for event-driven platforms, and streamlined deployments for automated SBOM generation.

During his tenure at Bose Corporation (2015-2020), Hariharan worked as an Embedded Software Engineer developing firmware for wireless speakers, headphones, and wearables, including significant contributions to Alexa Voice Service and Google Voice Assistant integrations. His technical expertise spans Python, C++, Go, DevSecOps, cloud computing (AWS), Kubernetes, micro-service architecture, and embedded systems. Hariharan has received numerous recognitions, including the “2024 DevSecOps and Applied AI Innovator Award” at ICMR 2024, the athenahealth” Foundational Services Hall of Fame Impact Award”, and multiple Employee Recognition Awards from Bose Corporation for business impact. He also received the Cybersecurity Professional of the Year Award for his work in infrastructure security and AI-driven automation.

As an active contributor to the academic community, Hariharan has published numerous papers on topics ranging from AI-driven security operations to infrastructure automation. In 2025 alone, he has presented at multiple IEEE conferences, focusing on cybersecurity, AI, and cloud computing. Hariharan serves as a reviewer for prestigious conferences including ICLR, NeurIPS, IJCNN, and IEEE EDUCON. He is a Senior Member of both IEEE and the International Society of Automation, a Fellow of the Soft Computing Research Society, and a member of ACM.

Beyond his technical work, Hariharan actively contributes to the broader technology ecosystem as a judge for hackathons at institutions including MIT, UC Berkeley, and RPI, and as a technical speaker at conferences such as OWASP Boston and Conf42. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northeastern University.