Anant Verma

CTO

Hayward, California, United States28 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led successful transition to cloud-native SaaS platform.
Built high-performing engineering teams focused on results.
Expert in managing complex software delivery projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingEngineering Management

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)IT Infrastructure DesignIT Infrastructure OperationsData AnalyticsSaaSC#COM.NETExcelWeb ServicesOutlookMicrosoft ExchangeStart-upsVisual StudioC++

About

Engineering leader with many years of software development and engineering management experience. I have personally managed and built many successful products that the customers love and built many happy teams on the way. I value principles such as simplicity, agility, building it right the first time and built in quality. Above all, I value individuals and how to draw on individuals’ strengths to build highly motivated, well-performing and results driven teams. I am a technology enthusiast and derive great pleasure in learning new technologies and skills. Expertise: People and technology management, Software delivery, Distributed Systems, Full-stack cloud based multi-tenant software, Salesforce.com CRM and force.com platform including API, Apex and VisualForce. I also have great deal of experience in programming with Java, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, Microsoft Office and Exchange plugins and applications.

Experience

28 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

7 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Alation

VP of Engineering

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Redwood City, California, United States · Hybrid

Joined Alation to form and lead the Cloud Platform group and help Alation transition from on-prem to SaaS business. Successfully delivered critical outcomes including transitioning more than half of Alation customers to cloud-native SaaS platform, while delivering industry standard gross margins and exceptional uptime SLAs for Alation Cloud Service. Responsible for Engineering teams working on cloud infrastructure, security & compliance, networking, operations, dev experience, API experience, Cloud Control Plane services, AuthN/AuthZ platform, Alation Analytics and much more.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)IT Infrastructure DesignIT Infrastructure OperationsData AnalyticsCloud ComputingEngineering Management

Netomi

VP of Engineering

Jun 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Forbes technology council

Official Member

Sep 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

Hired, inc.

VP of Engineering

Jun 2019 – Feb 2020 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for Engineering, Ops, IT & Support

Birst

2 roles

VP of Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2018 – Jun 2019 · 8 mos

Responsible for product architecture, core BI platform, Cloud platform engineering, core infrastructure, build-test-deploy solution, QA infrastructure as well as leading a team of awesome rock-star engineers.
I am always hiring talented engineers at Birst. If you are interested in joining Birst engineering team, don't hesitate to reach out to me.

Senior Director of Engineering

Feb 2014 – Sep 2018 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Achievers school

Volunteer Instructor and Coach

Jun 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 11 mos · Fremont, CA

Kindling passion for technology in young kids by running technology focused summer camps as well as evening and weekend workshops.

Kudoskorner

CTO and Co-Founder

May 2013 – Nov 2013 · 6 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

Responsible for the full technical stack of kudoskorner.com including running internal and production environments on AWS. Some of the technologies I am using with KudosKorner.com are Java, Spring, Hibernate, Javascript, Angular.js, jQuery and Bootstrap.

Salesforce.com

4 roles

Director of Engineering, Data.com

Promoted

Mar 2010 – May 2013 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Managing the teams that are bringing data.com experience natively to Salesforce.com core application. Successfully built and released v1 of data.com flagship products including Prospecting and Clean. Launched initiatives to build new product lines that are currently in limited beta.

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2010 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos

I am responsible for managing teams building business-critical integrations between Salesforce.com cloud service and desktop productivity applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and IBM Lotus Notes.
Scrummaster for my teams for the last 3+ years.
Directly developed and managed Salesforce product offerings such as Salesforce for Outlook, Connect for Outlook, Offline Edition, Exchange integration, Connect for Office, Connect for Lotus Notes, Chatter for Outlook (an Outlook Social Connector provider for Salesforce Chatter)
Drove the initiative to build test automation technology stack and related tools over the last 2 years benefiting multiple teams and products
Managed multiple outsourced projects over last 3 years wearing multiple hats of Tech Lead, Architect as well as Project Manager

Engineering Manager

Jun 2007 – Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos

I am responsible for managing teams building business-critical integrations between Salesforce.com cloud service and desktop productivity applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and IBM Lotus Notes.

Developer

Mar 2003 – May 2007 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Developed first version of Outlook integration with Salesforce.com service
Developed and maintained Intellisync client to sync data between Salesforce.com service and Outlook/Notes applications
Developed Salesforce.com Offline Edition revision 3
Developed and maintained Force.com Office Toolkit
Developed Exchange Edition (a cloud based direct integration service between MS Exchange and Salesforce.com service)

Pilgrim

Developer

Oct 2002 – Feb 2003 · 4 mos

Contributed C#/.Net code to Pilgrim’s SmartAudit Audit management system

Trusttone

Developer

Jun 2002 – Oct 2002 · 4 mos

Designed and implemented the first prototype to support the founders’ vision of embedding Digital Rights Management in desktop applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Word using COM add-in technology

Commerceroute

Developer

Jan 2001 – May 2002 · 1 yr 4 mos

CommerceRoute was an early company in iPaaS space and came out with the idea of integration appliance, an innovative and original idea at that time, to distribute software in a box.
I was involved in experimenting with many early technologies including XML based data interchange, SOAP based web services and clients, custom software installers written from ground up, Web based Workflow systems and Windows Update like system for CommerceRoute integration appliance. I performed most of my work using technologies such as C++, ATL/COM/DCOM using protocols such as SOAP, EDI, and Rosettanet.

Applisoft

Programmer/Analyst

Mar 2000 – Jan 2001 · 10 mos

Designed and implemented a COM component to access, manipulate and synchronize the contact information between Microsoft Outlook and a database service using COM Add-in technology.

Hcl

Member Technical Staff

Sep 1997 – Mar 2000 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Designed lexical parsers using C, C++, Lex, Yacc, Perl and Omnimark to perform document format conversions from multiple formats (Lexis-Nexis proprietary markup format, WordPerfect, OCR’ed text documents) to SGML