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Sanjay Krishnaswami

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led multi-functional teams of over 600 staff.
  • Established R&D team of 120+ engineers in India.
  • Delivered high-performance B2B SaaS platforms on major cloud architectures.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud technology leader with extensive experience in AI and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)

Other Skills

.NET.NET FrameworkAgile MethodologiesIntegrationSoftware DevelopmentWeb Services

About

Proven Transformative Technology Leader with 26+ years of experience in building high-performing engineering teams: • Leader of multi-functional sites with 600+ staff for 8+ years, delivering operational excellence and strategic alignment. • Led dispersed engineering teams of 250+ engineers across India, North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, fostering collaboration and excellence. • Established successful R&D team of 120+ engineers in India from inception, showcasing strong talent acquisition and team-building skills. • Delivered high-performance B2B SaaS platforms on Azure, GCP, AWS, and hybrid cloud architectures. • Championed AI and Innovation across organization by starting AI Centre of Excellence and multiple Innovation Initiatives. • Led CI/CD and cloud transformation initiatives, optimizing efficiency and agility, while transforming engineering teams into lean, highly productive organizations.

Experience

Vonage

Sr. Director and Head of Engineering - Unified Communications (VBC)

May 2025Present · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Head of Engineering for the UCaaS - Unified Communication as a Service product at Vonage (an Ericsson company)

Avaya

VP Engineering and Head of India R&D

Aug 2023Dec 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Avaya is a global leader in the Cloud and On-Prem Contact Center, Communications and CX platforms. As the Site Leader for all Engineering teams in India, I lead the Engineering function across our three locations in Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad with 600+ associates.
  • Additionally I own the Software Delivery and Roadmap across a major portfolio of our Cloud CCaSS Platform with responsibilities of a Global Team spread across, India, Europe and North America.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)

[24]7.ai

VP and Head of Engineering

Jul 2020Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • [24]7.ai is redefining the way companies interact with consumers. We help businesses attract and retain customers, and make it possible to create a personalized, predictive and effortless customer experience.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Genesys

Senior Director, Software Development & Site Leader

May 2016Jun 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Genesys the world’s #1 Customer Experience Platform, empowers companies to create exceptional omnichannel experiences, journeys and relationships. For over 25 years, we have put the customer at the center of all we do, and we passionately believe that great customer engagement drives great business outcomes.
  • Site Leader for Hyderabad Development Center and Software Development Leader with responsibility over
  • Data & Analytics
  • Desktop Client Applications
  • Core Platforms

Amazon

Software Development Manager

Apr 2014May 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • As a Software Technology leader in the Amazon Advertising group, I build and own services for large scale Platform Services, Distributed Computing platforms and Data Analytics Platform. In my responsibility for the Ad Tracking and Data Analytics Platforms, I own
  • Services for Click and Impression Tracking of online Ads handling millions of transactions per hour.
  • Data Analytics and Data Warehousing platform processing data at the scale of hundreds of gigabytes per day and storage in excess of hundred terabytes.
  • Distributed computing platforms for real time processing and aggregation of 10's of gigabytes of data per day
  • API's that serve millions of transactions per hour for Reporting Data.
  • Manage Engineering and QA teams

Opera solutions

Head of Engineering

Jan 2013Mar 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Opera Solutions is a global leader in the space of Big Data science and Predictive Analytics. I provide technical leadership to one of the company’s flagship products SignalHub. As one of the senior technology managers in the organization I am responsible for
  • Technical Ownership and Operational Support for one or more of the core products
  • Providing Technical Leadership to the Engineering team
  • Hiring and Recruiting entry-level, mid-level and senior software professionals
  • Promoting and defining an Agile Software Development process for the organization
  • Mentoring, coaching and organizing internal and external training for skills enhancement of team

Consilio llc

Head of Engineering

Oct 2011Dec 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pasadena, CA

  • Reporting to the CTO of the company, manage a team of 24 onshore and offshore software developers that build, develop and support the TRUE data processing and Global Review and Search platforms for data mining and text and context based searching.First Advantage Litigation Consulting is a leader in the e-Discovery space and provides software platform and expertise in extracting and processing electronic data as well as hosting the data and providing Search and Review capability. Extracting and Processing backend core engine is written in C++ and the Search and Review platform in ASP .NET.
  • Manage two software development teams working on multiple applications. Team spread geographically in the US and India.
  • Application hosted in 8 data centers in 8 countries to support business operations in those countries.
  • Manage 24x7 Level 2 and Level 3 support for these applications.
  • Managing the development, deployment and support of very large databases in the range of 4 – 10 TB.
  • Managing the development, deployment and support of complex text search of large datasets including context and conceptual searches.
  • Vendor negotiations and management, along with software evaluation of vendor applications.
  • Providing Service Delivery, Project Management and Architecture strategy to the company.

Bank of america

4 roles

Vice President; Sr Tech Mgr

Apr 2009Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Agoura Hills, CA

  • Manage a team of 13 software developers that work on the Reverse Mortgage Origination System.
  • Managing development of 25,000+ person hour projects for the application as part of transition from Countrywide Home Loans to Bank of America.
  • Part of the project implemented as a Six Sigma project. Undertook Six Sigma Green belt training.
  • Architecting and development of integrations with several core applications in Bank of America.
  • Implementing B2B website for mortgage originations.

First Vice President

Jun 2007Mar 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos · Agoura Hills, CA

  • Managed a team of 7-10 developers working on the above web application.
  • Successfully represented application during technology assessment as part of Bank of America’s acquisition of Countrywide Home Loans. After detailed analysis of both the Bank of America and Countrywide Reverse Mortgage Systems, was able to successfully demonstrate to the Technology and Business executives that Countrywide’s application would be the preferred multi generational platform.
  • Successfully lead the entire application team of 30 during a period of transition.

Vice President

Promoted

Jul 2003May 2007 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Agoura Hills, CA

  • Reverse Mortgage Origination System (January 2006 – May 2007)
  • Managed a team of 7-10 software developers working on the above web application
  • Architected, Developed and Implemented first phase of a new web application, ground up in 9 months. This phase allowed the company to offer a Reverse Mortgage product through its retail channels.
  • Followed up with implementation of Phase 2 to offer the product via the B2B channels. This involved the creation of a B2B website.
  • Both phases involved integrations with close to 10 other core applications within the company.
  • Global Origination Systems (July 2003 – December 2005)
  • The Global Origination System is a multi-tier, multi-platform web application to provide loan originations for Barclays Bank in the UK.
  • Managed a team of 6 - 10 developers.
  • Architecture / Design / Development of new feature enhancements as well as existing bug fixes.
  • Managing production support for the deployed application.
  • Managing several streams of development of the same application including an offshore development team in India working on defect fixes.
  • Successfully managing an offshore development project; the application is deployed in the UK for a UK bank.

Sr. Software Engineer

Dec 2001Jun 2003 · 1 yr 6 mos · Agoura Hills, CA

  • Worked on the following projects.
  • Middle Tier Jini based Web Services
  • Role: The Technical Lead for the project. Lead a team of 4 developers for building the services.
  • Automated Full Assessment Rules Engine
  • Role: The Technical Lead for the project. Lead a team of 5 developers.
  • Countrywide Workflow Product
  • Role: The Technical Lead for the project. Lead a team of 4 developers for building the services.
  • Global Tables System
  • Role: Senior developer on project.

Torry harris business solutions

Sr. Software Engineer

Mar 2000Nov 2001 · 1 yr 8 mos · Edison, NJ

  • Intercompany Backcharge (Bristol Meyers Squibb, Princeton NJ)
  • Provided onsite consultancy to Bristol Meyers Squibb in the design and development of an intranet web application. Role: Lead developer, involved in requirements gathering, design, development, testing and deployment.
  • Java/WebSphere Consultant (Chase Manhattan Bank, Bournemouth UK)
  • Provided onsite consultancy to the Middleware support team at Chase Manhattan.
  • Weblogic to WebSphere EJB Migration Toolkit (Bangalore, India)
  • Role: The Technical Lead for the project. Lead a team of 3 developers for design and development.

Ibm global services

Software Engineer

Jul 1999Mar 2000 · 8 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Worked on Credit card application web site

Education

University of Arizona

Master's degree — Information Science- Machine Learning

Apr 2023Dec 2024

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Senior Management Program

Jan 2014Jan 2015

UCLA Anderson School of Management

MBA

Jan 2010Jan 2013

Savitribai Phule Pune University

MCA — Computer Science

Jan 1996Jan 1999

Delhi University

BSc — Physics

Jan 1993Jan 1996

Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram

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