Vivek Vick Khera

About Vivek Vick Khera

Experienced manager with over 25 years of industry and entrepreneurial experience. Strong background in B2B SaaS, designing high-performance system architectures, and managing distributed teams. Significant executive presence with client-facing enterprise responsibility with customers across educational, financial, commercial, and health care sectors. Work has included but is not limited to strategic planning, system architecture, operations, project management, security, and regulatory compliance.I understand the challenges of creating innovative services, and can offer expertise on many fronts, including: product and API design; application architecture and scalability; database structure, optimization, and scalability; operational oversight (business continuity/disaster planning, process documentation); workflow and project management procedures and tools; remote work procedures and tools; data collection and visualization.I hold M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Duke University and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.Highlights:* CTO/Architect of 3 B2B SaaS businesses successfully sold to public companies.* Operated one of the first World Wide Web servers in 1993 at Duke University.* One of the first to process credit cards online in 1995 using CyberCash service.* Pioneered web server architectures for high performance, 1996.* Helped invent online promotional “scratch and win” games, 1997.* Patent for increasing banner advertisement click through rates, filed granted 2002.* Invented techniques for tracking response to text and HTML email messages,

Experience

1. Chief Technology Officer

   Carfeine

   Oct 2021 — Present · Rockville, MD, US

   I am responsible for overseeing and directing all of our development efforts for our products.

Education

• Duke University

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science

  1992 — 1994

• University of Maryland

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

  1984 — 1988

• Duke University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Open Source
• Freebsd
• Apache
• Databases
• Distributed Systems
• Postgresql
• Ruby
• System Architecture
• Software Development
• Jira
• Unix
• Sql
• Trello
• Perl
• Web Development
• Pfsense
• Entrepreneurship
• Network Security
• Html
• Computer Science
• Scalability