Abhishek Gurunathan

About Abhishek Gurunathan

Hands-on Engineering Leader with 18+ years of experience in the industry and 8+ years in managementLed and mentored a high-performing team of 70+ engineers and managers across the US and UK, fostering a collaborative and innovative environmentSuccessfully managed and optimized an AWS budget exceeding $15 million, driving significant cost savings and efficiency improvementsLed the vision and development of Smartsheet\'s foundational Sheets, Reports, and Content capabilitiesPlayed a pivotal role in product innovation driving revenue growth from $100 million to over $1 billion, demonstrating significant impact on the company\'s revenueSuccessfully launched the Scaled Sheet platform, increasing cell limits from 500k to 5 million handling over 10 petabytes of data resulting in enhanced user experience and significant customer satisfaction gainsSpearheaded the transition to a usage-based licensing model, driving new revenue and enhancing customer valueDirected development for the company\'s Tier 0 Authentication and Authorization platformLed the successful transition from a monolithic architecture to a decoupled services architecture, improving scalability, maintainability, and overall platform agilityEnsured platform reliability with 99.95% uptime and sustained high performance exceeding requests per second, meeting demanding user expectationsActively participated in company-wide hackathons, fostering innovation and contributing to the development of valuable product features

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   iSpot

   Nov 2025 — Present · US

Education

• University of Illinois Chicago

  Masters, Computer Science

  2005 — 2007

• PSG College of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science & Engineering

  2000 — 2004

Skills

• Iis
• Agile Project Management
• Wpf
• Visual Studio
• Wcf
• Agile Methodologies
• Test Automation
• Web Services
• C
• Java
• Distributed Systems
• Jsp
• Software Design
• Software Project Management
• Databases
• Scalability
• Sql
• Software Engineering
• Asp.net
• C#
• .net
• Multithreading
• Silverlight
• Testing
• C++
• Tomcat
• Test Driven Development
• Software Development
• Python
• Scrum