Praveen Viraraghavan

Praveen Viraraghavan is the Technologist of the Product Line Management organization. In his role at Seagate, Praveen is given the opportunity to collaborate with other leaders to shape the portfolio across all parts of the Seagate product and research ecosystem. Praveen works closely with all customers to help align their storage strategy to Seagate’s product and technology roadmap.

Praveen has a proven record owning hardware and software architecture strategy working with multiple levels of technical and corporate leadership. Praveen has a
knowledge of the ecosystem related to data management, which allows advocacy for the customer’s requirements while still prioritizing the company’s business and technical options.

Praveen holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and did some graduate work on VLSI design in 1997 from Purdue University at West Lafayette. During his storage career Praveen has worked from the lowest embedded layers, silicon development, product architecture and development up through to the software layer. Praveen led the architecture of many new first-pass success silicon developments and new HDD
and SSD product lines at leading storage companies serving cloud and OEM customers. Praveen transitioned to a startup where is helped redefine the storage stack used in the cutting edge S3 on premise object storage software solution, the company was later acquired. Praveen has been a contributor to many industry standard bodies.