Suja Viswesan

Suja Viswesan returned to IBM last month, taking on the role of vice president of security software development, according to her LinkedIn account.

Viswesan previously worked at the Armonk, N.Y.-based tech giant for more than 12 years, leaving in 2014 with the title of senior development manager, according to her LinkedIn account.

In this role, she worked on BigInsights, IBM’s enterprise Hadoop platform. She worked “across organizations to integrate BigInsights with other IBM products like Platform Symphony, DataClick, DB2, etc.” and managed “a global team spread across USA, Canada, China and India,” according to her LinkedIn account.

Before rejoining IBM, Viswesan worked at WarnerMedia for more than a year and at LinkedIn for more than six years, according to her LinkedIn account.

She left WarnerMedia in September with the title of senior vice president, according to her LinkedIn account. She led the company’s data strategy, which included data science, business intelligence, data governance and data privacy.

Viswesan left LinkedIn – bought by Microsoft in 2016 for about $26 billion – in 2021 with the title of director of engineering, according to her account on the social media network.

In this role, she headed the big data applications and platform organization responsible for LinkedIn’s metadata platform, data compliance and other units, according to her LinkedIn account.