Vivekanand Kirubanandan

Co-Founder

Seattle, WA, United States25 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Engineering leader with extensive experience in product development.
  • Founder of a non-profit improving software engineering skills.
  • Expert in building cross-functional teams across multiple tech stacks.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinTech and AdTech leader with a strong focus on software development and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipEducationInvestmentsRecruitingCareer DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentCloud ComputingAgile Methodologies

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)ArchitectureBusiness StrategyClassroom InstructionCustomer EngagementData AnalysisData StructuresE-commerceEdtechEntrepreneurshipFinancial ModelingInformation TechnologyIntegrationInterview Preparation

About

I am an engineering leader of leaders. I have built cross-geographical multi-disciplinary teams to own critical business applications spanning multiple technology stacks. I own the product roadmap, define product features, and own the complete software development life cycles of all my products. ๐Ÿ ๐— ๐˜† ๐— ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป & ๐—ฉ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐Ÿ My goal is to make tech jobs accessible to everyone who desires to pivot into tech. I aspire to level the playing field by creating opportunities and building an environment that promotes a culture of learning. Follow me on LinkedIn, and reach out to me over SDE Skills discord. ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐—œ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ? ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป At Facebook, I am an engineer leader of leaders, building products that help small businesses thrive by improving the ad performance. We are redefining how ads work and lowering the barriers to entry to implement a full-funnel high-quality closed-loop system. At Amazon, I led engineering teams across the entire e-commerce systems owning everything from product discovery, purchase experience, ordering experience, payments and post-purchase device/content management. I am the founder of SDE Skills, a volunteer-led global non-profit organization that aims to upgrade the software engineering skills for developers and aspiring tech enthusiasts. ๐Ÿค ๐—˜๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐Ÿค Here are a few reasons why you should engage with me? If you are a ๐Ÿšฉ jobseeker - I am always hiring for my awesome team, or know folks who are hiring in the Industry. ๐Ÿšฉ small business looking for technical help - I am eager to support small businesses by helping them get their technical stack right and optimize their business processes. ๐Ÿšฉ techie eager to contribute - Boost your resume by volunteering at SDE Skills in any capacity. There are opportunities for Devs, Product Managers, Data Scientists and Digital Marketing positions at SDE Skills. I am super passionate about building a community around helping each other improve our technical skills. Feel free to hit me up if you are interested in contributing. ๐Ÿ”Œ ๐—ช๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐Ÿ”Œ ๐Ÿ“ง email me at: vkirub at gmail ๐Ÿ”— DM me on LinkedIn ๐Ÿ’ฌ Ping me on Discord: sdeskills.com/discord

Experience

Moonpreneur inc

Investor

Jan 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 1 yr 2 mos ยท United States ยท Remote

  • I have recently invested in Moonpreneur Inc, an edtech company dedicated to providing children with technology and entrepreneurship education. Their vision and mission aligns closely with my goals of making education and technology accessible to all.
  • I love how their programs seamlessly blends tech and entrepreneurial skills in the areas of Robotics, Game Development, Application Development, and Advanced Mathematics.
  • I believe that Moonpreneur is developing the innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders of tomorrow.
EducationEntrepreneurshipLeadershipEdtechInvestments

Wiseguru

Angel Investor

Aug 2024 โ€“ Present ยท 1 yr 7 mos ยท United States ยท Remote

  • I like WiseGuru's vision and I like how they are innovating the hybrid virtual+in-classroom experience.
EducationTeaching English as a Second LanguageClassroom InstructionEdtechInvestments

Careerflow

Angel Investor

Jan 2023 โ€“ Present ยท 3 yrs 2 mos ยท United States ยท Remote

  • I have invested in Careerflow as I am super passionate in uplifting the community by helping with their careers. Careerflow has a unique take on how they level the playing field and empower the job-seekers with tools to accelerate their job search and upskill themselves.
  • I believe that Careerflow is going to radically change the job searching process, and put the job seekers in control of the process.
RecruitingSoftware DevelopmentLeadershipAgile MethodologiesCareer DevelopmentProgram Management+3

Meta

Engineering Leader, Cloud Signals Platform

Apr 2019 โ€“ Present ยท 6 yrs 11 mos ยท Greater Seattle Area

  • I work in the Ads Signals space - providing a way for advertisers to securely and privately report customer behavior that can help optimize their ROI from advertisements. We are building a turn-key product built using open-source tech to be deployed on advertiser's cloud infrastructure.
  • This is a new product initiative started in 2020, expected to be iterated upon for a few years. As we build more features and onboard more advertisers we anticipate our team to Grow.
  • Apr 2019 - Dec 2019 - EM, Conversions API
  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2020 - EM, Advertiser-side Tech
  • Jan 2021 - Present - EM, Conversions API Gateway
RecruitingSoftware DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesCareer DevelopmentProgram ManagementCloud Computing+3

Sde skills

Founder

Jan 2010 โ€“ Present ยท 16 yrs 2 mos ยท Greater Seattle Area

  • SDE Skills is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that aims at improving efficiency of engineering talent pool in the industry. We do this by helping engineers showcase their skills effectively during technical interviews.
  • The group is entirely volunteer driven and is self-organized. With a wide range activities like free seminars, group sessions, mock interviews, individual career coaching and guidance the group caters to all engineers.
  • If you are an engineer looking to get back into interviewing, check us out at http://sdeskills.com
  • We also have a super active discord community - join us - http://www.sdeskills.com/discord
  • We are always looking to partner up with local companies for sponsoring our events - This a pretty awesome way to reach out to local candidates.
RecruitingSoftware DevelopmentLeadershipAgile MethodologiesCareer DevelopmentProgram Management+6

Amazon.com

Engineering Leader, Digital Payments Platform

Jan 2007 โ€“ Jan 2019 ยท 12 yrs ยท Greater Seattle Area

  • I led the Digital Payments Team that is innovating in the FinTech space. Our vision is to delight our customers with the best payment experience in the world! Taking a world-view of payments, we build highly customized, seamless payment experiences for our global customers.
  • As a leader of a fast-paced, ever evolving environment, I own a significant stake in the business as well as the technology.
  • Key Responsibilities Include:
  • Working with product management to push the envelope to deliver key features that customers love
  • Own the product delivered by controlling the overall software development life cycle; both management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
  • Define and drive the roadmap for the team and help shape the overall vision for digital payments
  • Hire and mentor a technical team and grow them into strong leaders
  • My team is cross functional, with SDEs, TPMs, SDEs and QAEs. We are hiring in Seattle, US and Chennai, India.
  • Previous Roles:
  • Mar 2014 - Feb 2016 - Engineering Leader Post Purchase Experience, Digital Commerce
  • Oct 2010 - Mar 2014 - Engineering Leader Dev and Quality, Kindle Content Store
  • Oct 2009 - Sep 2010 - Software Development Manager at Free Search Traffic
  • Jan 2008 - Sep 2009 - Technical Program Manager at Free Search Traffic
  • Aug 2007 - Jan 2008 - Software Development Engineer at Free Search Traffic
RecruitingSoftware DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesCareer DevelopmentProgram ManagementCloud Computing+2

Sapient

Senior Associate Technology

Jan 2001 โ€“ Jan 2007 ยท 6 yrs ยท Various

  • 2001 - 2002 - Advanced Tech Team - Enterprise Java Framework
  • Consulting Engagements
  • 2003 - Cingular, Harvard IRB
  • 2004-2005 - Essent Energie, Sony
  • 2006-2007 - MMC 2020 & Kaiser Permanent
Software DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesCareer DevelopmentProgram ManagementMentoringAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Education

Quantic School of Business and Technology

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jan 2020 โ€“ Present

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

Bachelor Technology โ€” Civil Engineering

Jan 2001 โ€“ Present

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