Hariharan Ragothaman
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Hariharan Ragothaman
Additional Info
| Job title of nominated professional (or team name) | Software Engineer |
| Company (where nominated professional or team is working) | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (AMD) |
| Website | https://www.amd.com/en.html |
| Company size (employees) | 10,000 or more |
| Country | United States |
| Headquarters Region | North America |
Overview
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.
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.
Accomplishments
Technical Leadership and Excellence:
Hariharan spearheaded critical cybersecurity initiatives at athenahealth, demonstrating recognized excellence and exceptional leadership—particularly during the Log4j incident, where his proactive mitigation ensured uninterrupted patient care. He developed the “Unified Deployment Pipeline” to unify tech stacks and enhance service visibility, release efficiency, and product quality. His pioneering commercialization of a macro-service hybrid cloud (Amazon EKS, AWS Local Zones, and AWS Outposts) modernized the athenaOne platform, earning him the Hall of Fame Award for transformative contributions to security, market adoption, and profitability. Leveraging advanced DevSecOps pipelines, robust Artifactory infrastructure, and a human-centric “Interview-Bar Raiser” strategy, he optimized security protocols and streamlined talent acquisition—accelerating the rapid scaling of high-performing teams essential to cybersecurity initiatives.
Publications:
Hariharan published an impressive body of cybersecurity research in 2024 and 2025, overall five IEEE conference papers focused on critical security domains: "Dynamic Secret Injection for Microservices in the Cloud," "Leveraging Generative AI for Proactive Cybersecurity Threat Detection," "Applying Artificial Intelligence to DevOps: AI-Driven Anomaly Detection," "Generative AI for Automated Security Operations," Optimizing Service Deployments With NLP Based Infrastructure Code Generation-An Automation Framework and "A Novel Dataset and Hybrid Ensemble Approach for Anomaly Detection in Enterprise-Access-Logs"—collectively demonstrating innovative approaches to securing cloud environments, AI workloads, and enterprise systems. Notably, his paper "Securing Cloud AI Workloads – Protecting Generative AI Models from Adversarial Attacks" earned the Best Paper Award at the 4th IEEE International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity (ICAIC – 2025)
Thought Leadership and Community Contributions:
Hariharan emerged as a thought leader through high-profile engagements—delivering his 2025 BASC OWASP talk on enhancing application security with unified deployments, XRAY integration, and automated SBOM generation, and presenting secure deployment strategies at conf42 DevOps to bolster governance in alignment with national cybersecurity objectives. Furthermore, He has delivered keynote addresses at prominent events such as ARIIA 2024 and the IEEE Orange County GET Series and conf42 Python 2025. His dedication to fostering a culture of continuous innovation and security best practices makes him a driving force in shaping the future of cyber resilience.
