Raj Tiwari

Raj Tiwari has been part of the IVR community since 2000. Raj specializes in software design and architecture for VoiceXML IVR systems including speech recognition. He has spent over a decade leading teams in designing, developing, and deploying cloud-based software systems.

At Nuance Communications, Raj led the development of VoiceXML capabilities as part of the industry-leading Nuance Voice Platform. Later, at UPEK, Inc. (which is now a part of Apple), he used UPEK’s industry-leading bio-metric technology when leading a team in developing secure, scalable, and highly available Security and Authentication Services in the cloud. Most recently, Raj served as an outside technical advisor to Surgent’s predecessor, Newfound Communications.

Raj spends his time away from Surgent kite-surfing and cycling around the San Francisco Bay Area.