Vijay Ganesan

Co-Founder

Saratoga, California, United States34 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Built a unicorn startup in six years.
Led product management driving triple-digit growth.
Pioneered search-driven BI in analytics.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Business Intelligence expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data AnalyticsSaasProduct ManagementBusiness IntelligenceProduct DevelopmentAnalyticsArchitecture

Other Skills

Customer Journey AnalyticsAnalytics InfrastructureSearch-driven BICloud BIJavaDistributed SystemsAlgorithmsMobile ApplicationsData WarehousingComputer ScienceMathematical ModelingOperations ResearchData MiningUser ExperienceData Visualization

About

* Entrepreneur, executive and product leader with a proven track record of conceiving and building innovative, successful, large-scale software systems * Company builder who has successfully built a silicon-valley company from scratch to unicorn status within six years * Passion for building enterprise-class tools and applications related to data analytics, reporting, business intelligence, data science, Cloud and AI * Very strong leadership skills heading engineering, design and product management functions.

Experience

Snowflake

Product @ Snowflake

Dec 2025 – Present · 4 mos

Optimizely

SVP, GM Analytics

Nov 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

Netspring.io (acquired by optimizely)

Co-Founder and CEO

Dec 2019 – Nov 2024 · 4 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

NetSpring is a SaaS platform for advanced product and customer journey analytics. NetSpring provides cost-effective and trustworthy analytics for modern product, growth, and data teams to acquire, engage, and retain their best customers.
With NetSpring's warehouse-native architecture and analytical capabilities across product event data and all customer business data, you can go beyond just product interactions, to analyze entire customer journeys for rich, business-impactful analytics.

Various startups

Advisor, Investor

Apr 2017 – Present · 9 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Thoughtspot

2 roles

Co-Founder, VP Product Management

Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Head of product management and product enablement (documentation, training, community) functions. Put in place product vision and roadmap driving triple-digit year-over-year company growth. Recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms - the fastest growth of any company in the Quadrant.

Co-Founder, Principal

Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Conceptualized, architected and built the ThoughtSpot product from scratch with specific focus on analytics infrastructure and application components of the stack. Invented and pioneered the concept of "Search-driven BI" that has emerged now as an important trend in the BI space. Founded and led engineering, design and product management teams managing rapid growth over 4 years. Successfully grew the company recruiting, growing sales and raising capital.

Oracle

2 roles

Architect, Business Intelligence

Promoted

Jan 2005 – Jan 2012 · 7 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Architect and technical lead for Oracle’s flagship BI product that generated $1B+ revenue annually. Architect for the next generation Cloud BI platform. Nominated to serve on the Architecture Review Board.

Architect, PeopleTools Reporting and Analytics, PeopleSoft

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Technical architect in the PeopleTools Reporting and Analytics group. Lead for tools offering ad-hoc query, production reporting, OLAP, data science and Optimization. Part of the team spearheading the effort to develop the next-generation PeopleTools platform.
PeopleSoft was acquired by Oracle.

I2 technologies

Advanced Member of Technical Staff, Aspect Development (acquired by i2 Technologies)

Jan 1999 – Jan 2004 · 5 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

At Aspect Development, tech lead in the analytics platform for Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) products.
Aspect Development was acquired by i2 Technologies.

Siemens

Technical Team Lead

Jan 1994 – Jan 1999 · 5 yrs · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Worked in the area of closed-loop, real-time monitoring and control of networks. Application of graph algorithms, mathematical programming, network visualization with real-time data push, efficient and fast processing of massively large data sets, in a mission-critical system.