
OB Rashid
Senior Vice President of Engineering
Obaidur (OB) Rashid joined Vocera in 2021 and is the Senior Vice President of Engineering. He has more than 22 years of experience developing software across domains, industries, and delivery models. He also has extensive experience in building high-performance teams onshore and offshore.
Before joining Vocera, Mr. Rashid was the Global Head of Engineering for a strategic portfolio of enterprise products within the Security and Integration Business Unit at Broadcom. Prior to that role, he served as the Vice President of Engineering at CA Technologies, leading flagship products such as Layer 7 API Management, Xceedium Privileged Access Manager, and Clarity. Mr. Rashid has also held senior leadership positions at Oracle and Taleo, where he led one of the largest SaaS products in the talent management space, namely, Taleo Business Edition. Prior to that role, he worked at a startup called StarCite, developing an online marketplace, which was later acquired by Cvent. Mr. Rashid began his career as an engineer at Oracle, where he quickly rose through the ranks to become an architect.
Mr. Rashid earned a bachelor and master’s degree in computer science from Midwestern State University. He is a blogger and a regular speaker at industry events.