Engineering
Infrastructure, networks, Microsoft platforms and hands-on technical delivery.
About
Rakesh Randeria — Technology Executive
Sydney-based technology executive with more than 20 years of experience progressing from hands-on engineering and infrastructure through IT management to enterprise technology, cybersecurity and executive leadership.
My Background
Technical foundations. Business focus.
I started my career working directly with infrastructure, networks and enterprise technology before moving progressively into IT management and broader technology leadership.
That progression still shapes how I work. I believe technology leaders should understand the strategic and commercial context of a decision while remaining close enough to delivery to understand how it will actually work in practice.
A CIO or IT Director does not need to be the strongest engineer in the room. Their role is to build capable teams with deeper specialist expertise, ask the right questions and create the conditions for good decisions. Technical curiosity, however, still matters.
Career Progression
Broader scope built on a technical base.
The career path has moved progressively from direct technical delivery into organisational leadership, governance and executive decision-making.
IT Management
Teams, service delivery, infrastructure, enterprise systems and operational ownership.
Technology Leadership
Strategy, transformation, business partnership, architecture, cybersecurity and investment.
Executive & Governance
Board and executive reporting, risk, resilience, AI and data governance, partners and assurance.
How I Work
Understand the Business
Start with the business problem, customer need or organisational outcome rather than the technology.
Keep It Practical
Use enough technology and governance to solve the problem without creating unnecessary complexity.
Make Risk Visible
Technology decisions involve risk, cost and trade-offs. Leadership needs enough information to make those decisions deliberately.
Measure Outcomes
Projects and technology investments should ultimately make something measurably better.
Perspective
Strategy and technical depth are not opposites.
Particularly in smaller and mid-sized organisations, technology leaders often need to move comfortably between executive conversations, commercial decisions, risk management and technical delivery.
Understand enough of the detail to make good decisions, while keeping the focus on business outcomes, people and risk.