Shan Appajodu

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States28 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led global engineering teams at Salesforce.
  • Co-founded innovative mobile app development platform.
  • Developed AI-driven healthcare engagement solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Healthcare technology leader with extensive experience in product engineering and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipProduct EngineeringEngineeringFull-stack DevelopmentPeople Development

Other Skills

NegotiationCommunicationDeveloper ToolsStrategic PlanningOperational ExcellenceResearch and Development (R&D)High Performance TeamsInfrastructureService AvailabilityInfrastructure ServicesComputer ScienceCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareManagementVirtualization

About

Entrepreneur, Technologist, Advisor, Investor

Experience

28 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Salesforce

3 roles

Senior Vice President of Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • I lead a globally distributed and diverse team of engineers in the areas of Developer Productivity and Experience, Platform Engineering and Experience (SDLC, CI/CD, Developer tooling) and Infrastructure Engineering (Multi cloud Platform Engineering). We deliver
  • Trust - availability/reliability/scale, quality, security, compliance
  • Customer Success
  • Innovation -Leverage AI to bring efficiencies to all the developers. Developer productivity is the biggest leverage to enable "doing more with less" and provide the scale
NegotiationPeople DevelopmentCommunicationDeveloper ToolsProduct EngineeringStrategic Planning+2

VP of Engineering

Jun 2022Aug 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

EngineeringTechnology LeadershipResearch and Development (R&D)NegotiationHigh Performance TeamsPeople Development+8

Principal Architect/VP

May 2019Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Technology LeadershipResearch and Development (R&D)NegotiationFull-Stack DevelopmentInfrastructureCommunication+3

Omnybus inc.

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Dec 2014Dec 2018 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • OmnyPlay - Rapid Mobility and Mashups Platform
  • OmnyPlay’s cloud platform enables enterprises create and update mobile applications in few hours without writing any mobile code. In addition, OmnyPlay provides one mobile app per company model to access all existing enterprise applications (Legacy, SaaS, Custom-built, etc.). These features are offered in a simple and economical Mobility-as-a-Service cloud-based platform that drastically reduces the efforts of development, deployment, and management of mobile applications.
  • With OmnyPlay, enterprises get:
  • Rapid development — Hours/days vs. Months
  • Dramatic reduction in TCO — Over 90%
  • Great efficiency — No app deployment or updates. Any changes made to apps are available to the end user immediately
  • To leverage your existing resources — no mobile specialists required. Zero coding
  • Pure native app — native user experience and capabilities (not Html 5)
  • Single mobile app — One mobile app to deliver all your enterprise applications (we call them Micro-Apps!). No apps proliferation on the device and no special management software
  • Enterprise grade security (access control, encryption, data integrity)
  • AI driven chatbot integration with Instant App based fulfillment
  • To summarize, OmnyPlay is a combination of Mobile Backend as a Service (MBAAS) with ready to use connectors and authenticators to various back-ends (API based, Web based), Mobile Front end as a Service and a Rapid Mobile Development, Deployment and Management Platform.
  • Demos:
  • https://medium.com/omnyplay-blog/introducing-omnyplay-zero-code-designer-c8e228a36a98
  • https://medium.com/omnyplay-blog/create-mobile-apps-from-spreadsheet-fa786a5abf46
  • https://medium.com/omnyplay-blog/omnyplay-with-orientdb-2afa24058172
Full-Stack DevelopmentDeveloper ToolsStrategic Planning

Incuhub ventures

Founder, Chief Architect

Mar 2008Nov 2014 · 6 yrs 8 mos

  • IncuHub is an technology incubator that helps business entrepreneurs to transform their idea into a product that can be taken to the market. IncuHub helps in
  • Defining and developing the MVP
  • Iterating and Fine tuning the MVP taking customer inputs
  • Provide technology advisory, development, dev-ops and support for the product on BOT model
  • Developed the plan for MIRACLE Dialysis and secured the IndoUS Technology Endowment Grant in partnership with Dr. Beth Kolko.
  • Helped launch www.talkadoc.com from conception to production.
  • Talkadoc brings efficiencies to patient health with an innovative AI enabled patient-doctor engagement platform, specifically designed for chronic disease management. Talkadoc is deployed to more than 50 physicians and touching more than 20,000 patients in the mental health space.
  • Created and launched Guruswara, a service to assist music learners to learn and practice music efficiently. GuruSwara is a backed with a innovative DSP algorithm that tracks user voice and predicts deviations with respect to Melody, Tempo and other important vocal elements. Check it out at www.guruswara.com. Guruswara is successfully launched in more than 30 schools and reached more than 12000 active students.
  • Conceptualized, designed, developed and launched the Muzigle platform successfully on AWS. Muzigle became the largest aggregator for Indian Music with more than 1000 record labels, 5000 artists and more than Million music tracks providing multiple avenues for the artist/record label to monetize the music such as Streaming, Downloads, RingTones, Caller Tunes, Online and Mobile Karaoke, Music Greeting cards etc.
  • Advisory Services:
  • Worked with leading VC firms as subject matter expert in doing due diligence on several startups.
Technology LeadershipResearch and Development (R&D)NegotiationProduct EngineeringStrategic Planning

Ringcube technologies

Founder, Chief Architect & CEO

Oct 2004Dec 2007 · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Founded Ringcube in 2004, a pioneer in desktop virtualization space.
  • Ringcube was acquired by Citrix Systems and offered as part of XenDesktop.
  • 1. Defined the product, architected and developed the product. Filed several patents.
  • 2. Created the business plan and raised two rounds of funding from top tier VCs New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Mohr-Davidow Ventures (MDV)
  • 3. Built a team of 100+ people in Silicon Valley and India
  • 4. Successfully launched the product by creating a new space called "Secure Virtual Desktop" which has become industry category now.
  • 5. Created the GTM, established the demand generation, sales and marketing.
  • 6. Created a successful PR strategy and executed.
  • Notables:
  • Ringcube team won the DEMOGod award for the best product launch.
  • Walt Mossberg of Wall Street Journal publshed a positive review of RingCube.
  • Approved patents:
  • http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F7577686
Technology LeadershipNegotiationHigh Performance TeamsProduct EngineeringStrategic Planning

Borland software

Sr R&D Engineer

Sep 2001Oct 2004 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Cupertino

  • Product definition, management and product development of highly scalable Borland Enterprise J2EE server based on Visibroker CORBA platform.
  • Implemented Container Managed Persistance engine
  • Integrated a SQL complaint micro-database to provide object relational mapping and persistence
  • Integrated Borland Enterprise Server with award winning JBuilder and ServerTrace Products
  • Represented and participated in SPEC, Java Community Process CTS.
  • Contributed and implemented the certification processes.
Technology LeadershipResearch and Development (R&D)Developer ToolsProduct EngineeringComputer Science

San jose state university

Adjunct Faculty - Computer Engineering

Jan 2001Dec 2008 · 7 yrs 11 mos · san jose

  • Selected for a teaching position at San Jose State University based on dedication, communication skills, domain knowledge and research talent. Many students who have attended my classes have a very successful careers in Silicon Valley
  • Created and taught Mobile Technologies for Enterprise Applications course in the graduate study program at SJSU's Computer Engineering department.
  • Supervised and advised over 15 research projects.
  • Works closely with the Director of the program in curriculum committee, faculty recruitment, alumni communications and fund raising.
  • Co-author of Wireless Java Programming for Enterprise Applications published by John Wiley & Sons in Year 2002. This book is quoted as reference in several patent filings.
People DevelopmentCommunicationComputer Science

Healtheon webmd

Staff Engineer

Jul 1998Jun 2001 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Defined, architected and implemented a highly scalable secure internet platform to connect consumers, employees, employers and insurance companies to streamline health benefit plan management.
  • Worked with product management to gather and catalog complex healthcare benefits management requirements.
  • Lead a team of EDI engineers to integrate with insurance companies legacy systems. Defined and implemented QA drivers and processes.

Lucent technologies

Software Engineer

Aug 1997Jun 1998 · 10 mos

Education

San José State University

M.S — Computer Engineering

Jan 1999Jan 2001

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