Bassu Hiremath

CEO

Redmond, Washington, United States26 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led development of Engagement 360 platform infrastructure.
  • Enhanced Alexa skills through innovative developer tools.
  • Drove Azure Data Engineering migration to cloud.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and AI Development expert with extensive experience in SaaS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Infrastructure ManagementData StrategyDistributed SystemsCloud ComputingAi DevelopmentDeveloper ExperienceCloud MigrationDatabase ManagementData ManagementDevopsSystem ManagementPerformance EngineeringSoftware Testing

Other Skills

.NETAI technologiesAgile Project ManagementAlexa skills developmentAutomated DebuggingAzure Data EngineeringBig Data TechnologiesC++Data QualityDebuggingDev-Ops modelDeveloper ToolsEngagement 360 platform infrastructureGlobal DatabasesMonitoring

About

At Salesforce, my focus is on spearheading the Engagement 360 platform's infrastructure, leveraging my background in large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing. Our team's efforts are centered on driving innovation and ensuring seamless scalability to support the ever-growing demands of our global customer base. With my previous role at Amazon Web Services, I honed my expertise in WAN replication and global databases, significantly contributing to the robustness of Amazon Aurora's distributed storage. Alexa skills developer platform for dev experience, Microsoft open source database control plane, Azure AD , Bing Ads , Office 365 and windows performance. The skills in software development, particularly in C++, C# and Java and agile methodologies, have been instrumental in delivering high-quality services and crafting solutions that empower developers and customers alike. My tenure at AWS allowed me to lead initiatives that enhanced Alexa's conversational skills through cutting-edge AI and developer tools. This depth of experience reflects a steadfast commitment to operational excellence and a passion for elevating the technological landscape.

Experience

Salesforce

Senior Director - Engagement 360 platform Infrastructure

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States · On-site

  • Spearheaded the development of the Engagement 360 platform infrastructure, enhancing transaction handling for CRM applications.
  • Led cross-functional teams in architectural transformation, integrating big data technologies to optimize service delivery.
  • Drove the implementation of hot, warm, and cold path data strategies, significantly improving data accessibility for marketing initiatives.
Engagement 360 platform infrastructurebig data technologiesdata strategiesInfrastructure ManagementData Strategy

Amazon web services (aws)

Engineering Leader - Amazon Aurora Distributed Storage

Feb 2021Sep 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States

  • AWS Aurora, Large scale distributed systems, Global Databases, Backup Restore, Cloud computing, Relational databases, Storage, WAN Replication
WAN replicationglobal databasescloud computingDistributed SystemsCloud Computing

Amazon

Engineering and Science Leader - Alexa Skill Kit

May 2019Jan 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • As Engineering and Science leader lead developer tools and that are used by millions of developers to create rich experiences for millions of customers. My team drove tools that enable skills builders to intelligent author and build with recommendations for skills developers to help drive richer traffic to their skills with higher accuracy for creating rich global conversational skills. We got to work on best of AI and AWS technologies along with building core primitives that can enable experiences on a device with Alexa. And Working on several new V1 initiatives at Amazon Alexa.
  • I was managing team size of 30 plus members consisting of three teams 1) Authoring experience, 2) Build Platform and 3) Alexa Skill Builder Science team. Collaborating with Alexa AI, ASR, Alexa Verticals/Domains, and Alexa-Auto.
Alexa skills developmentAI technologiesdeveloper toolsAI DevelopmentDeveloper Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

PRINCIPAL ENGINEERING MANAGER

Promoted

Feb 2015May 2019 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Redmond

  • 1) Drove Migration of Azure Data Engineering system from onprem to Azure Cloud and federated out the system to each Data services team to manage their engineering system. SQL Server alone had close to 4 million lines of code (approx.) with 50, 000 + automated tests, with 800 developers contributing to the codebase on daily basis and reduced overall build and test time by 60% overall. This Migration empowered each team to manage their engineering system improving overall engineering productivity and driving velocity in delivering features to customers.
  • 2) Drove Enterprise Concierge Services : Built automated debugging and intelligent Diagnostic tools for SQL Databases to help scale enterprise support from top 100 to top 10,000 and beyond with same number of sustained engineers addressing customer issues. As part of this effort, we provided E2E distributed tracing partnering with Zipkin( We received three patents 1) Correlation Across Non-Logging Components, 2) Correlation Across Non-Logging Components in distributed systems, and 3) Correlation Across Non-Logging Components using Impersonification),
  • 3) Drove Control plane, Billing, Developer experience and developer story to integrate with Azure Eco-system for open source RDMBS (PG and MySQL) work delivered V1 of PG/MySQL GA on Azure. This focused on provisioning workflows through Azure Portal, API/SDK, CLI, and Control plane managing various versions of PG/MySQL, server parameters, compute, storage and managing the hosted databases through various online server management operations
  • I managed team size of 10 plus members during this period and collaborated with Azure and Data Platform organization teams to deliver results.
Azure Data Engineeringautomated debuggingSQL databasesCloud MigrationDatabase Management

Senior Software Developer Team Lead

Jun 2013Feb 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Redmond

  • Managed team owning monitoring, data quality, and data freshness through batch processing for Bing-Ads and MSN teams.
  • Introduced Dev-Ops model by automating the process, helping move away from tier support System. Reduced from 800 approx. vendors to close to 40 with the entire automation.
  • I managed team of 10 members. Collaborated and partnered with various Bing Ads/MSN Vertical teams (like Finance, Weather, Food and Order, Sports, News teams) and SQL Server.
monitoringdata qualityDev-Ops modelData ManagementDevOps

Senior Software Developer Team Lead

Sep 2009Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Redmond

  • Drove System Management (Performance, Scale, Stress, Monitoring, COGS and incident management/Livesite) for Microsoft Online Directory service part of O365. Core focus on 1) hosting Microsoft Jet Database for Azure AD around hosting write replicas on SAN configuration and read replicas on SSDs 2) Sync web service to sync AD data with federated services like EXO, SharePoint, and Office Communication Online services. 3) Partition definition with Single leader write node and ACID promise guarantees for read after write concept.
  • I managed team of 7 members, collaborated across all the federated services within Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Skype\Office Communication online service, Intune, Commerce and Office 365 UX team.
System ManagementPerformance Monitoringincident managementPerformance Engineering

Lead Software Development Engineer In Test

Aug 2001Aug 2009 · 8 yrs · Redmond

  • 1) Worked on driving Performance compatibility for 3rd party enterprise apps for Windows NT to Windows 2003 server Migration, worked with Windows Kernel team. I was individual contributor.
  • 2) Drove Performance, Scale, Monitoring, and Livesite, Software Assurance technologies, Microsoft Operation Manager ( System Center operations manager), and Office Live( Hosting SharePoint as online service platform for small business and workspaces). Managed team of 7 members, along with cross group collaboration across SQL Server, SharePoint, Commerce, and Office Service experience teams.
  • Managing team of 10 members, along with cross group collaboration across various teams within Microsoft.
Performance compatibilityMonitoringSoftware AssuranceSoftware TestingPerformance Engineering

Siemens information systems ltd.

Develpment and Senior Development engineer

Dec 1999Jul 2001 · 1 yr 7 mos · Banglore, India.

  • Was developer building Health care System Management Application framework.

Education

KLEs College of Engineering & Technology, Belgum, Karnataka.

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science Engineering.

Jan 1995Jan 1999

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