Santosh Vaidyanathan

About Santosh Vaidyanathan

Passionate engineering leader with nearly 19 years of experience at start-ups (early to late stage) and MNCs across teams and geographies. Have built highly resilient distributed systems and high throughput systems of scale in the past with a strong track record of having built teams from the ground up. Have executed 0-1 charters with ambiguity at start-ups and MNCs alike while being hands-on with architecture and design of systems. Driven various org-wide changes in terms of tech stack modernization, democratization and optimizations across multiple teams, BUs and businesses within the company.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Salesforce

   May 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Driving engineering excellence in next-generation Marketing Cloud products powered by Agentforce, delivering AI-native solutions that transform how enterprises engage customers at scale. Spearheading cross-functional teams to architect and deliver intelligent marketing automation that leverage autonomous agents for personalized customer experiences at scale.

Education

• Anna University

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Test Management
• Manual Testing
• Java
• Selenium Webdriver
• Selenium
• Debugging
• Data Structures
• Automated Software Testing
• Qtp
• Automation
• Software Quality Assurance
• Test Automation Framework
• Test Automation
• Algorithms
• UI Automation
• Test Planning
• Testng
• Sdlc
• Requirements Analysis
• Agile Methodologies
• Quality Assurance