Vicky Nishad

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience in top tech companies.
  • Expertise in building scalable cloud-based software products.
  • Led teams to achieve zero attrition and significant cost savings.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong leadership in cloud-based software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipDistributed SystemsData GovernanceData QualityData LineageMicrosoft Power BiMicrosoft Power AppsTeam LeadershipSecure Code Review

Other Skills

.NET FrameworkAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache SparkBig Data AnalyticsCloud-Native ArchitectureData AnalysisData MigrationData Pipeline AutomationData SharingData StewardshipData StrategiesDatabasesDomain-Driven Design (DDD)

About

• Seasoned Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience in top tech companies, including Walmart, Microsoft, Intel and Oracle. My expertise lies in Technical Leadership, Software Product developments and People Management along with strong business skills. I bring decade of experience and expertise in designing and building Software Products and Platform from scratch on Cloud Infrastructure (Azure, GCP & AWS), that are highly scalable, available, performant and fault-tolerant, based on Distributed System architecture using microservices and distributed storage systems. • Have experience and expertise in collaborating with stakeholders to discover business and product requirements, architect and design systems, and lead developers to create high-quality software applications in a fast-paced environment. Experience of establishing best practices around Engineering and Operational Excellence practices to build highly productive team and build products with high-quality products. I'm skilled in agile and scrum methodologies, and have experience of managing PI planning, Epics, User Stories, and product Roadmaps to build software. • Have experience and expertise in setting up automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Sonar, Concord, Docker and Kubernetes to build & deploy application on Cloud Infrastructure. Additionally, I have experience with Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) activities, which includes Threat Modeling, Static Analysis, Dynamic Analysis, Secure Code Review, Security Tool Scanning and Privacy Review. I'm also familiar with handling regulatory requirements, such as Privacy and GDPR policies. • Have start-up experience as co-founder to build Subscription Service Mobile App called 'Monthly Service' from grounds up, which allows users to manage online deliveries of newspapers, milk, magazines, and meals. As of today, it has over 15,000 downloads on Android. Unfortunately, we had to shut it down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Experience

21 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Visa

Director

Jul 2025Present · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Walmart global tech

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Jun 2021Jun 2025 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Products:
  • 1. Data Governance: Application to manage and govern technical and business data.
  • 2. Data Quality: Application to perform quality checks on data.
  • 3. SSDI: Application to automate data pipeline creation.
  • 4. Data Lineage: Application to visualize data flow from one system to another.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Lead a team of 17+ software engineers and data engineers in the US and India.
  • Design and architect distributed systems using microservices for high scalability and availability.
  • Develop high-performance, reliable, and fault-tolerant systems using best practices.
  • Optimize design and use GenAI to reduce cloud costs and improve team productivity.
  • Collaborate with end-users to discover requirements and improve usability.
  • Manage PI planning, Sprint, Roadmap, and Release planning.
  • Work with the team to develop telemetry, alerting, and monitoring systems to proactively catch production issues.
  • Focus on engineering quality and developer productivity metrics.
  • Manage customer incidents and prioritize application enhancements and fixes to reduce incidents and mean time to restore.
  • Responsible for hiring, appraisals, team growth, mentoring, and coaching team members.
  • Achievements:
  • SSDI Application reduced pipeline development time from 2-3 weeks to under 5 minutes for Data Engineers, saving time and costs.
  • Decommissioned Graffiti and replaced with Data Lineage, saving $1300 per month.
  • Data Governance and Data Quality applications adopted as Walmart's Enterprise products, receiving an award for Speed of Execution and leveraging GenAI to automate technical asset enrichment, saving $200k to $400k and 6 months of effort.
  • Grew team from 6 to 17+ members with Zero Attrition.
  • Optimized Data Quality STV design and deployment model, resulting in annual savings of over $10,000.
  • Automated Data Quality check for over 1000 Azure Databricks to GCP Databricks migrated tables, saving huge manual effort and money.
LeadershipTeam ManagementPeople ManagementDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentData Analysis

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2017Jun 2021 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Developed PowerApps – Power Portal for Microsoft, enabling organizations to build Internal or External Websites with Dynamics 365 features.
  • Managed 20K+ customers across 10+ Geo with 25M+ MAU, achieving over 100% growth annually.
  • Implemented Low-Code No-Code Editor for easy customization, enhancing user experience and productivity.
  • Led a team in architecting and designing components, conducting technical feasibility analysis, and coding for product improvements.
  • Managed customer escalations, troubleshooted critical issues, and conducted product data analysis using Kusto and KQL.
  • Built Power BI Analytics dashboard for monitoring product KPIs and enhanced auto alert pipeline for proactive issue detection.
Microsoft Power BIMicrosoft Power Apps.NET FrameworkBig Data AnalyticsStrategic Data AnalysisOperations Management+1

Intel corporation

2 roles

Technical Lead

Jan 2013Jan 2017 · 4 yrs · Bangalore

  • Worked on Cloud Reporting Solution (part of Pervasive Data Protection) to provide reporting solution for Intel cloud products.
  • Worked in CommonUI (part of Content Security Interlock team) which lets security products like DLP, Mail, Identity, MWG, etc.to connect with each other on common platform deployed over MFS (McAfee Foundation Service) with all user interfaces having similar look and feel on On-premise Appliance, ePO and Cloud with common Web Policy.
JavaTeam LeadershipTeam BuildingSecure Code ReviewSecurity

Senior Software Development Engineer

Dec 2010Dec 2012 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

  • Worked on McAfee Web Reporter and Content Security Reporter which lets organizations identify trends, investigate potential problems, and analyze security threats as a basis for refining and enforcing policies for secure web access.
  • These tool helped organization to:
  • View and analyze web traffic in real-time
  • Eliminate irrelevant data to understand where your users are really going
  • Quickly turn volumes of data into actionable information
  • Analyse trends to determine if policy modifications are required, or if security threats are on the rise
  • Create reports in rich formats and multiple languages
  • Consolidate data from multiple log sources
  • Delegate reporting access and privileges based on roles

Oracle

Member of Technical Staff

Jun 2008Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Was involved to create Oracle Network Integrity(NI) product using Oracle Fusion Middle-ware stack. Network Integrity was used for flexible discovery, assimilation, and reconciliation of network data with inventory systems.
  • http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/communications/network-resource-management/network-integrity/overview/index.html

Capgemini

Software Consultant

Feb 2007Jun 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos · Kolkata Area, India

Cognizant technology solutions

Programmer Analyst

Dec 2004Feb 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Technology - MTech — Data Science & Engineering

Nov 2022Oct 2024

Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology - SMU

B.Tech. — Computer Engineering

Jan 2000Jan 2004

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