Binil Thomas

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Dublin, California, United States16 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Scaled teams from 2 to 45 engineers.
Led engineering for a $3.7B acquisition.
Developed AI-native platforms for B2B.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with a strong focus on AI integration and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementAi IntegrationProduct DevelopmentTeam LeadershipTechnical StrategyProduct ManagementTeam ManagementSoftware EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentPerformance Engineering

Other Skills

AI-native cultureB2B go-to-marketReal-time processingAutonomous agentsTeam scalingEngineering systemsConversational platformAPM product managementRevenue generationMobile application developmentProduct growthJava APM product developmentCode instrumentationHigh-frequency trading systemsJava application development

About

I build product organizations for people to do their best work. Three times in my career, I've taken something from zero and scaled it: AppDynamics' End User Monitoring product (from first line of code to their second most successful product line), Orum's EPD organization (from 2 engineers to 45, growing ARR 25x to eight figures), and now Warmly's AI-native GTM platform. Today I lead a team of 14 engineers building an autonomous agent platform for B2B go-to-market, operating with an AI-native culture where AI is a force multiplier for thinking, not just code generation.

Experience

16 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs

Average Tenure

1 yr 4 mos

Current Experience

Warmly,

Vice President of Engineering

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Dublin, CA · Remote

I lead engineering at Warmly, a Series A startup building an AI-native GTM platform that helps B2B companies convert website visitors into pipeline. Our platform runs a real-time website visitor identification system that processes massive volumes of anonymous web traffic, matching visitors to accounts and contacts at scale. It performs identity resolution across 200M+ CRM-synced contact records and orchestrates autonomous AI agents for sales and marketing workflows.
I manage a team of 14 engineers building across these surfaces. We've established an AI-native engineering culture where AI agents are embedded across the entire development lifecycle: research, planning, building, testing, and production diagnostics. Engineers pipeline multiple projects concurrently, similar to CPU instruction pipelining, resulting in significantly higher team throughput and delivery quality without adding headcount.
I use AI daily across every dimension of my role, from incident postmortems and on-call triage to performance reviews, customer feedback synthesis, and infrastructure prototyping.

AI-native cultureB2B go-to-marketEngineering managementReal-time processingAutonomous agentsEngineering Management+1

Orum

Vice President of Engineering

Sep 2020 – May 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Joined Orum as the first executive hire when the company had two engineers and a technical co-founder. Over four years, I built and led the full EPD organization (Engineering, Product, and Design), scaling it to a 45-person team.
Expanded the product from a focused initial offering into a full conversational platform for enterprise sales teams, processing millions of telephone calls daily. This is carrier-grade software with reliability and performance standards far exceeding typical SaaS platforms. Grew ARR 25x to eight figures during my tenure. Built the engineering systems, product management, and design functions from scratch, establishing the technical foundation that powered the company's growth. Orum raised $47M across its Series A (Craft Ventures) and Series B (Tribe Capital) during this period.
Reported directly to the CEO and worked closely with the founders on executive-level strategy, including go-to-market, fundraising, partnering with sales on deals and CS on renewals, and organizational design. Regularly presented to the board.

Product developmentTeam scalingEngineering systemsConversational platformProduct DevelopmentTeam Leadership

Appdynamics

4 roles

Sr. Director, APM

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Led a 125-person engineering organization responsible for AppDynamics' core APM product, which generated nine-figure annual revenue. Led the reimagining of the technical strategy through the Cisco acquisition and the platform's evolution into a next-generation observability suite.

Technical strategyAPM product managementRevenue generationTechnical StrategyProduct Management

Director, Software Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2017 – Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Expanded the Browser EUM product portfolio to include Mobile (iOS and Android). Led product development, hiring, planning, budgeting, and operational responsibilities for an R&D group of ~40 engineers in San Francisco and Bangalore.

Product developmentMobile application developmentTeam managementProduct DevelopmentTeam Management

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2014 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

As the EUM product grew into a successful product, I transitioned from Individual Contributor to Engineering Manager, building and leading a team that eventually reached 55 engineers across San Francisco and Bangalore.

Team leadershipProduct growthEngineering managementTeam LeadershipEngineering Management

Team Lead & Principal Software Engineer

Feb 2011 – Sep 2014 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Started at AppDynamics as one of the earliest engineers (employee #23) and was part of scaling it from a 100-person company to a $3.7B acquisition by Cisco. My initial contribution was as a core engineer on the flagship Java APM product, developing a low-footprint monitoring agent using code and bytecode instrumentation. This agent is a foundational piece of AppDynamics' platform, widely deployed across enterprise customers.
Separately, I created the End User Monitoring (EUM) product as what began as a short side project. EUM grew into AppDynamics' second most successful product line.

Java APM product developmentCode instrumentationSoftware EngineeringProduct Development

Ronin capital

Applications Developer

Feb 2009 – Feb 2011 · 2 yrs

Developed a high frequency trading system. This is a multi-threaded Java application where micro-second latencies and high reliability are important.
Analyzed and improved system performance. Developed a performance test environment, and improved performance of key operations by about 500% over my tenure.

High-frequency trading systemsJava application developmentPerformance analysisSoftware DevelopmentPerformance Engineering