Shailesh Kumar

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States22 yrs 8 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams across multiple countries.
  • Transformed platform availability to 99.95+.
  • Scaled technology organization 3x in three years.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering executive with expertise in product-led growth and strategic leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Strategic LeadershipCloud ComputingProduct StrategyData Management

Other Skills

AIAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAnalyticsApplication ServersBig DataC++Cloud ApplicationsCommerceData GovernanceData IntegrationData QualityData WranglingDatabasesDistributed Architecture

About

Experienced engineering executive with a strong track record in large enterprises and innovative startups, specializing in product-led (PLG) and sales-led (SLG) growth strategies. I have managed global engineering, infrastructure, security, and IT teams, while driving technical vision, strategic direction, and organizational leadership. Additionally, I have established and led development teams across the US, Canada, Israel, Poland, Argentina, and India.

Experience

Salesforce

Senior Vice President of Engineering

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Head of Engineering for Salesforce Commerce & Retail Cloud — a multi-billion dollar platform driving the next era of B2B and B2C commerce innovation powering iconic brands across the globe. We're reimagining digital experiences through AI, agentic commerce, and next-gen retail technology.
  • We're embedding AI across the buyer journey — from personalized discovery to autonomous agents that drive conversion and service. If you're excited about rethinking how commerce works, let’s talk.
EngineeringAICommerceRetail TechnologyStrategic LeadershipCloud Computing

Hyperexponential

Technical Advisor

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Clickup

SVP and Head of Engineering

Aug 2021Aug 2024 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Executive team member, leading global Engineering, Infrastructure, Security and IT reporting to CEO.
  • As head of technology at ClickUp, I have
  • Scaled the technology org 3x in the last 3 years through hiring, acquisitions and a new development center in Poland and India while maintaining high developer productivity
  • Added new products to ClickUp product line - Whiteboards, ClickUp AI, Dashboards, Clips, Integrations while building enterprise-ready features. This helped fuel our massive revenue growth through increased NDR in the existing customer base as well as new lands to larger enterprise customers
  • Built a rigorous engineering operations to transform platform availability to 99.95+ from under 99.5% in last 3 years while decreasing infrastructure spend by over 50%
  • Scaled the platform by transitioning to a service-based architecture and overhauled the data infrastructure to implement a sharded database architecture capable of scaling to accommodate millions of users and serving billions of APIs daily, while maintaining cost-effectiveness
EngineeringInfrastructureSecurityITProduct DevelopmentStrategic Leadership+1

Mulesoft

VP of Engineering

Sep 2018Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • VP of Engineering for Mulesoft Integration Product & Platform across US and Argentina during the massive growth period where we went from 400mn in ARR to generating over 1bn in ARR.
  • Notable accomplishments:
  • Rebuilt the leadership team by recruiting an outstanding group of hands-on technical leaders
  • Built and launched a new product - Mulesoft Composer, aimed at mid-market segment of iPaaS domain
  • Led entry into the RPA space through an acquisition - ServiceTrace
  • Built and launched a new application monitoring product (https://www.mulesoft.com/platform/api/monitoring-anypoint) with over 95% margin and fastest growing revenue within 3 years of launch
  • Overhauled operations running the largest iPaaS platform with billions of transactions across 12 AWS regions including a GovCloud region with 99.99% availability
  • Led successful completion of Fedramp certification for Mulesoft products leading our entry into public sector contributing >10% to the topline
EngineeringIntegrationProduct DevelopmentOperationsStrategic LeadershipProduct Strategy

Tableau software

3 roles

Director Of Product Development

Promoted

Feb 2017Sep 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Head of Product Management & Engineering for Data products reporting to Tableau's CTO. Built Tableau's Data Management Org and led Tableau's entry into Data space with new products - Tableau Prep and Tableau Catalog which formed the basis of Tableau Data Management SKU (https://www.tableau.com/products/data-management). This SKU helps users discover, understand, connect and trust your data.
Product ManagementEngineeringData ManagementProduct Strategy

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Sep 2015Feb 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Head of engineering for the enterprise & server product and responsible for scaling Tableau’s cloud offering, Tableau Online, to help our users move to cloud from on-prem
EngineeringCloud Computing

Development Manager

Feb 2013Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Responsible for building Tableau Server from ground up to get Tableau enterprise-ready including building the team
EngineeringTeam Building

Informatica

2 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Aug 2009Jan 2013 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Hands-on architect for the Metadata manager product providing MDM, lineage, end to end governance and what-if analysis.
EngineeringTeam Building

Lead Software Engineer

Apr 2007Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Built the Informatica Modeling Framework - a framework, based on EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) with its own modeling language and a runtime engine and support for Java and C++ language. This is the underlying framework used by all Informatica products to model metadata, drive object persistence and communication across different components and products.
Software ArchitectureMetadata ManagementData Management

Broadcom

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2004Apr 2007 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Built various services in the File Transfer Protocol, Networking and Storage layer for Storage Resource Manager and ARCServe Backup products
Software ArchitectureModeling Framework

Microsoft

Intern

Jan 2003Jan 2004 · 1 yr · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Developed MTFSniffer (browser for data written in Microsoft Tape Format) for Data Protection Server shipped as part of Microsoft Utilities
Software DevelopmentNetworking

Education

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

B.Tech — Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2004

Delhi Public School, Bokaro

SSE

Jan 1998Jan 2000

Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun

HSE

Jan 1994Jan 1998

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