Ravi Ramineni was hired by the LA Galaxy in 2025 as the Director of Quantitative Analysis.
Ramineni plays a key role in driving data-driven strategies across the High Performance, Coaching Staff, and Soccer Operations departments. Ramineni previously spent nine seasons with Seattle Sounders FC (2012-21), where he began as a Sports Scientist & Performance Analyst and eventually progressed to become Vice President of Soccer Analytics and Research. Ramineni's contributions to Seattle included building out the Analytics Department, which previously did not exist, and helping the club build rosters that won two MLS Cups (2016, 2019), a Supporters' Shield (2014), a Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup (2014) and four Western Conference Championships (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020). Before joining the Sounders in 2013, Ramineni worked at Microsoft for over six years on a variety of projects including analyzing large-scale datasets of user-behavior on Bing search engine and building a rules-based fraud detection engine for Microsoft online properties. The Tenali, India, native most recently served as the CEO and Co-Founder of SRC FTBL, a soccer analytics startup revolutionizing player recruitment and team analysis.