Vivek Poddar

About Vivek Poddar

With over 10 years of professional experience, I specialize in distributed systems, platform backend development, and high-performance caching solutions. As a Lead Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, I work on advancing Analytics Foundation Services at Tableau CRM, focusing on distributed file storage, dataset replication, and job routing. Driven by a commitment to innovation and collaboration, I aim to empower our team to deliver scalable and reliable solutions that align with Salesforce’s mission to transform business insights through technology. At Salesforce, I contribute to enhancing our distributed caching layer and platform backend, ensuring seamless data availability and reliability. My work involves optimizing job routing processes and dataset replication while leveraging technologies such as Redis, Cassandra, AWS S3, Kubernetes, Apache Thrift. By partnering with cross-functional teams, I help drive the evolution of backend systems that power critical analytics services, enabling data-driven decision-making at scale.

Experience

1. Lead Member of Technical Staff

   Salesforce

   Jul 2022 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Analytics Foundation Services @ Tableau CRM (aka Einstein Analytics)- working on our distributed caching layer & platform backend. Job routing, dataset replication, availability, distributed file storage.

Education

• Delhi Public School - India

  AISSE(10)

  2007 — 2008

• Delhi Public School - India

  AISSCE(10+2)

  2009 — 2010

• Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

  2011 — 2015

Skills

• Mysql
• Algorithms
• Sql
• Linux
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Software Development
• Python
• C
• Programming
• Java
• Windows
• Machine Learning
• Microsoft Word
• C++
• Ade
• Data Structures
• Octave
• Databases
• Management
• Microsoft Office
• Html