Finance Systems and Data Platform Leader

Ravi is a Finance systems and data platform leader with 18+ years of experience across companies like eBay, Sonder, Adobe, and McAfee. He specializes in building planning platforms, internal tools, data products, workflow automation, and decision-support systems for Finance, Operations, and executive teams. Most recently, he owned FP&A planning systems and the Anaplan Center of Excellence at eBay. Previously, he founded the Finance Systems function at Sonder, migrated FP&A from Adaptive Insights to Anaplan, built planning/data pipelines with Snowflake, Python, SQL, dbt, and Airflow, and integrated systems like NetSuite, Workday, Salesforce, and Tableau. He supported 150+ users across Finance and Operations and built enterprise planning systems supporting $10B+ in annual spend at Adobe. He is seeking roles in product engineering, data engineering, internal tools, forward-deployed engineering, technical product, finance/operations platforms, or AI workflow automation, aiming to move closer to software engineering while leveraging his finance systems and data background. He is a best fit for teams building software around complex business workflows, data integrations, planning systems, analytics, automation, and tools for domain experts, bringing strong product judgment, finance/operations domain depth, systems thinking, and hands-on experience with modern data tools and AI-assisted engineering.