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 2022Present

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 2020Feb 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 2019Jul 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 2014Nov 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 2013Sep 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 2011Mar 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 2009Jan 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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