Raji Arasu

Raji Arasu is an Indian American Internet technology engineer and product executive. Formerly VP of Engineering at Marketplaces at eBay, since 2011 she has been the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of eBay subsidiary, StubHub, where she is responsible for Product and Engineering functions. As an executive sponsor for eBay women in technology, Arasu is noted for her work towards educating and empowering women to be successful in the male-dominated computer and internet technology industry. eBay described her as a "role model for women", given her work as a technology executive, which as of 2012 only 9% of woman filled. Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal named her as a Woman of Influence for 2011. In 2015 she was appointed director of NIC Inc..

Arasu was born in India and grew up with a range of typical childhood aspirations to become a teacher or astronaut. She eventually decided upon computer science, and earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Pune University. Arasu began working in software development in the United States in the early 1990s. She specialized in online commerce and payments and led technology teams for several companies, including Oracle, her first employer. In 2000-2001, Arasu was director of engineering at marchFIRST.

In 2001, Arasu was appointed Vice President of Engineering for Trading for eBay, the world's largest marketplace. She managed the product and technological assets and was involved in improving the site experience and web services for sellers and buyers, the shipping, transactions and payments. She was later Vice President of Engineering for Marketplaces at eBay. According to eBay during her 10-year stint with the internet giant she "helped tackle problems involving scalability, traffic and payments in the rapidly evolving world of ecommerce". Arasu has described her work at eBay as an exciting one given that she had a "direct impact upon the consumers" of eBay, and said that she was involved in bringing in new industry role models to teach women at the workplace in computer technology at eBay. As a result, eBay described Arasu herself as a "role model for women", especially given her work as a technology executive, which as of 2012 only 9% of woman filled.Computer World cited Arasu's views on lowering development costs of technology in 2009, in which she said, "Be aware of the latest technologies and open-source packages that offer new ways to lower development/ deployment costs". Before her departure, she was named by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal as a Woman of Influence in 2011. She received the award at a formal awards dinner on April 14, 2011 and was mentioned in a special publication honoring notable female achievers of Silicon Valley.

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