Vishwa Krishnamurthy
Sr Engineering Executive experienced in cross functional leadership, establishing engineering excellence and rigor, and influencing customer centric product strategy
- Role
- Sr Director of Engineering at Sap Successfactors
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Vishwa Krishnamurthy
I help software product and technology companies accelerate revenue growth by building high performance, customer-obsessed, collaborative global organizations without compromising on quality and dev-productivity.Responsible for highly scalable products and SaaS applications - serving billions of requests per day, generating $300M+ in revenues. Experienced in leading teams of over 200+ engineers and building a high-performance culture - Pulse survey scores improved by over 40 points, recognized through leadership awardsCross Functional Leadership - partnered with C-suite leadership (CIO, CMO, CDO, CTO) to align and publish technology roadmaps, to build bridges, and to align on priorities.Customer centric delivery - Improved customer acquisition and retention by rearchitecting modern experiences and by integrating with AI/ML and GenAI leading to a revenue increase of over $50M+Created and delivered engineering roadmap by balancing the needs of new development, technical debt, and target state architecture - Reduction of over $6M+ in annual operational expenses and an improvement in dev productivity of over 60%. Experienced at driving engineering efficiency through shift left transformations - reduced hot patches by 50%, improved say-do ratio to over 90% and eliminated security vulnerabilities by 100%Technical expertise in modern cloud-native tech stack including microservices, Kubernetes, distributed systems, big data, and AI/ML, GenAI
Experience
Sr Director of Engineering
Jul 2020 — Present · Palo Alto, CA, US
Responsible for the modernization of product user experiences of highly scalable HR Tech SaaS products serving 4600+ B2B customers with billion+ requests• Established processes to enable key stakeholders to test early during the product lifecycle thereby leveling up the quality of delivery. As a result, customer incidents were reduced by over 80% and hot patches by over 60%.• Created and delivered the engineering roadmap by balancing the needs of new development, technical debt, and target state architecture. Led the transition to microservices-based architecture. The result was a reduction of over 6 million dollars in annual operational expenses and an improvement in dev productivity of over 60%.• Built a culture of innovation and high performance by “Leadership through empowerment” across a global organization, thereby enabling execution excellence, innovation, and balancing of long & short-term goals. • Created a collaborative culture by restructuring the organization and instilling better suited engineering processes to enable rapid delivery, 24/7 production support, and elimination of siloed domain knowledge. This improved the overall say-do ratio to over 90%.• Established a security task force to proactively detect vulnerabilities in the product via dynamic testing and code introspection enabling developers to shift-left to adopt a dev-sec-ops mindset. This prevented several critical CVSS defects from being deployed to production.• Led programs across SuccessFactors to improve employee engagement. Provided clarity to roles and responsibilities across different engineering levels. Pulse survey scores improved by over 40 points leading to higher retention.
Education
RV College Of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics & Communication
1993 — 1997
University at Buffalo
M.S., Computer Engineering
1997 — 1999
Skills
- Software Development
- Scrum
- Scope Management
- Hadoop
- Php
- Strategic Product Planning
- Design Patterns
- Oracle Sql
- Atmos Storage
- Continuous Integration
- Java
- Mentoring
- Squid
- Rest
- Akamai
- Cross Functional Team Building & Management
- Open Tsdb
- Hibernate
- Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
- Greenhopper
- Clearcase
- Managing Agile Teams
- J2ee Application Development
- E-Commerce
- Core Java
- Soa
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Amazon S3
- Technical Leadership
- Process Improvement and Streamlining
- Mongodb
- Strategic Planning
- Project Management and Scrum Master Experience
- Negotiation
- Sonar
- Javascript
- Uml
- Ajax
- Html
- Jira
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