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10 Broadcom engineering leaders
These ten current and former Broadcom engineering leaders, including CTOs of Broadcom divisions, hold or have held chief technology officer, senior vice president, vice president, head of engineering and senior director roles in engineering at Broadcom. A reader can learn how engineering leaders build and run their teams at Broadcom.
Professionals to explore
01—10Arya Behzad
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of R&D Engineering, Broadcom Fellow · Broadcom
Vice President of R&D Engineering, Broadcom Fellow at Broadcom since 2016; the profile says the role is responsible for all aspects of Transceiver & PMU Development. Former Wireless SoC Leader Sr. Director of Engineering at Apple (2014–2016), and the profile also lists a Group Vice President of Engineering Broadcom Fellow Broadcom Distinguished Engineer row at Broadcom dated from 1998 to 2014.
Bhanu Singh
LinkedInExperience: Head of Engineering, VCF Operations and Mgmt. · Broadcom
Head of Engineering, VCF Operations and Mgmt. at Broadcom since November 2024; the profile says the role leads engineering and innovation for VCF Operations and Mgmt., building management, observability and agentic AI capabilities for VMware Cloud Foundation. Former VP & GM Cloud Operations Mgmt. Products at VMware (2021–2024) and SVP, Engineering and DevOps at OpsRamp (2019–2021).
Charlie Abraham
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Of Engineering · Broadcom
Senior Director Of Engineering at Broadcom since 2016, and former Vice President & GM (2012–2015) and Vice President Engineering (2007–2012) at Broadcom. Former CoFounder and CTO at Global Locate Inc. (2000–2007), a company the profile says was acquired by Broadcom.
George DeCandio
LinkedInExperience: Distinguished Engineer and CTO, MF Division · Broadcom
Distinguished Engineer and CTO, MF Division at Broadcom, a current role dated from December 2018 that the profile lists at C-level in engineering and technical, and Director of Research and Development at Broadcom since March 2026. Former Distinguished Engineer at Persistent Systems (2016–2018).
Mark Gonikberg
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Engineering · Broadcom
Former Vice President, Engineering at Broadcom (2010–2013), and Sr. Vice President at Broadcom since March 2013, a role the profile places in Sunnyvale, California. Former Sr. Director of Engineering at Broadcom (1999–2010) and Vice President of Engineering at Altocom Inc. (1997–1999).
Ranga Rajagopalan
LinkedInExperience: CTO, Application Networking & Security · Broadcom
CTO, Application Networking & Security at Broadcom since November 2023, a role the profile lists at executive level, based in Los Gatos, California. Former CTO, NSBU at VMware (2023) and former Co-Founder & CTO at Avi Networks (2012–2019), roles that ended before the Broadcom role began.
Raymond Zhao
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President of Engineering · Broadcom
Senior Vice President of Engineering at Broadcom since March 2021, and former Vice President of Engineering at Broadcom (2014–2021). The profile describes a career in silicon innovation and data center architecture. Former Director of Engineering (2006–2013) and Senior Design Engineer (2001–2006) at Marvell Technology.
Sheng Z. Zhang
LinkedInExperience: CTO, Optical Systems Division · Broadcom
CTO, Optical Systems Division at Broadcom since December 2021, a role the profile lists at C-level in engineering and technical. Former Chief Scientist & Head of Silicon Photonics Architecture at Broadcom (2021), and former Chief Technology Officer (2020–2021) and Vice President Of Engineering (2020–2021) at Source Photonics.
Sreeni Donepudi
LinkedInExperience: Head of Software Engineering · Broadcom
Head of Software Engineering at Broadcom since July 2025, described in the profile as head of the software organization at the Data Center Solutions Group. Former Sr. Director, Software Engineering at Broadcom (2014–2025), and former Sr Director, SW Development (2013–2014) and Director & Sr. Manager, SW Development (2006–2013) at LSI, an Avago Technologies Company.
Vadim Lander
LinkedInExperience: CTO & Distinguished Engineer, Identity Management & Security · Broadcom
CTO & Distinguished Engineer, Identity Management & Security at Broadcom since July 2019; the profile says Vadim Lander leads the strategy and architecture of next-generation Identity Fabric technology. Former VP & Chief Identity Architect at Oracle (2009–2019) and Chief Security Architect & CA Distinguished Engineer at CA Technologies (2004–2008).
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Broadcom split engineering ownership between division CTOs and engineering vice presidents?
- 02How do engineering teams in acquired software businesses change after joining a large semiconductor company?
- 03What does a supplier or partner need to show to work with a Broadcom engineering group?
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