Vikram Agrawal

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

18+ years of engineering leadership experience
Proven track record in product delivery and strategic planning
Expert in designing complex distributed systems

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with expertise in cloud computing and distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingWeb Applications

Other Skills

Business StrategyData ManagementData WarehousingEntrepreneurshipOperational ManagementPartner IntegrationsPartnership DevelopmentPerformance OptimizationProblem SolvingRESTful APIsSaaS ManagementSecurity ComplianceServer ArchitectureStreaming ProcessingTechnical Leadership

About

Results-driven engineering leader with 18+ years of experience spanning early-stage startups to large organizations. Built and scaled teams from the ground up, driving product delivery and strategic planning. Demonstrated success in launching products end-to-end—from ideation through development to release. Strong track record in designing and solving complex distributed systems challenges.

Experience

Glean

Engineering Lead

Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Microsoft

Principal group engineering manager

Jan 2021 – Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Qubole

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

May 2017 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Conceptualized and led a team to launch Qubole Pipeline Service, a streaming processing platform, for Accelerated Development Cycle, Robust and Cost-efficient stream processing, Comprehensive Operational management, and Efficient Data management & consistency.
Designed, led the development, and open-sourced modules such as RocksDB state storage, StreamingLens, Kinesis Data Source (110+ stars, 60+ forks) & S3-SQS Data Source for better connectivity, configuration tuning, and enhanced performance in Spark Structured Streaming.
Primary Liaison for various focus areas of the team - Engine Performance, Total Cost optimization(TCO), Partner Integrations, Data Lake Transactions, and OSS versions upgrades.
Led effective sprint planning and consistent one on one meeting to deliver planned results

Streaming ProcessingOperational ManagementData ManagementPerformance OptimizationPartner IntegrationsCloud Computing+1

Engineering Lead

Jan 2013 – Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Amongst early employees at Qubole. Worked across the stack with responsibilities ranging from hands-on development to technical leadership to customer support.
Leading SaaS & Platform team to manage various component of Qubole's webservice.
Led the effort to move towards SOA from monolithic architecture - Autoscaling Hive Execution Tier, command execution architecture, tunnel service etc
Working on Data Warehousing and Analytics framework
Designed and implemented critical components across the stack - scheduler, data connectors, security compliance, multi-tenant authorisation, data exchange
Wore multiple hats to solve problems at hand

SaaS ManagementTechnical LeadershipData WarehousingSecurity ComplianceCloud ComputingWeb Applications

Kredx

Director Of Engineering

Nov 2016 – May 2017 · 6 mos

Unirow

Co-founder & Director - Technology

Jul 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai

Designed & developed the browser-based solution for hosting multi-way video conferences & webinars.
Implemented RESTful APIs and in-conference telephony support (both SIP & PSTN) for deep integration;
Headed the partnership development, after sales support & daily operations of the firm;
Grown the company to 8 member team with over 800 registered users and a revenue of $10,000 in FY 2012-13.
Amongst top 10 startups to demo at unpluggd, July 2012

Video ConferencingRESTful APIsPartnership DevelopmentCloud ComputingWeb Applications