Renjith Radhakrishnan

The story so far

Sixteen years. Six chapters. One throughline.

From a first technology role troubleshooting on the ground, to leading enterprise technology across five countries — told the way it actually happened, not as a list of bullet points.

Feb 2022 — Present

Tamara

Dubai, UAE

Current

Head of IT Business Solutions (Enterprise Technology)

Enterprise technology at regional scale

In February 2022, Renjith stepped into a fast-growing, newly regulated FinTech and inherited a mandate that would only get bigger: enterprise technology across five countries — the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany and Vietnam — in support of a workforce that would grow past a thousand people.

The work was never just about keeping systems running. Practical, business-led AI adoption became a daily discipline: internal assistants, intelligent automation and developer productivity tooling, governed lightly enough to move fast and rigorously enough to hold up under scrutiny.

Alongside it, a quieter but equally demanding transformation — turning a sprawling technology portfolio into a disciplined one. SaaS rationalization, contract restructuring and competitive sourcing delivered more than $2M in savings, not by cutting capability, but by designing it better.

He rebuilt the digital workplace itself — identity, collaboration and service management — on JumpCloud, Slack Enterprise Grid, Jira and Notion, while strengthening the governance underneath: cybersecurity, audit readiness, business continuity, vendor risk. All of it running in parallel with rapid regional expansion, not in spite of it.

Jul 2020 — Feb 2022

The Myriad Dubai

Dubai, UAE

IT Manager – Pre-Opening

Building from a blank page

Before Tamara, there was a blank page: a brand-new hospitality operation with no technology environment at all. Renjith built it from the ground up — architecture, vendor selection, policy, support model — migrating legacy workloads to AWS and standing up secure multi-site connectivity ahead of go-live.

Nov 2019 — Jul 2020

Rasan Software House LLC

Dubai, UAE

Manager – Information Technology

Modernization under pressure

At Rasan Software House, the mandate was modernization: global infrastructure, cloud and security improvements, with AWS at the center of a disaster recovery program built to hold under pressure.

Sep 2014 — Nov 2019

Musafir.com

Sharjah, UAE

Senior IT Manager / IT Infrastructure Manager

Five nines, five years

Five years at Musafir.com, one of the region's fastest-growing travel platforms, taught a different lesson: what it takes to keep global offices online at 99.99% availability. Proactive monitoring, resilience engineering and hard-won operational discipline turned infrastructure into something the business could stop worrying about.

May 2013 — Sep 2014

Kelvin Gulf General Contracting Company

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Senior IT Engineer

Redesigning the foundations

At Kelvin Gulf General Contracting, a multi-location infrastructure redesign — secure connectivity, backup, enterprise systems — and the vendor selection behind a new HR platform.

Mar 2011 — Mar 2013

MIVB Information Technology

Dubai, UAE

IT Engineer

Learning enterprise-grade

Two years delivering managed technology services and enterprise deployments for clients including Mashreq Bank and HSBC — an early education in what enterprise-grade actually means.

Sep 2009 — Jan 2011

Emirates Flight Catering

Dubai, UAE

IT Assistant

Where it started

His first technology role: developing and rolling out an electronic non-conformance management system, and training the cross-functional stakeholders who'd have to trust it.

Education

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA)

    Anna University, Chennai

    2023 – 2025

  • Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology

    Anna University

    2005 – 2009

Credentials & languages

  • ITIL 4 Foundation
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (Routing & Switching)

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