Vaidyanathan S

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led critical tech platforms at Flipkart.
Experienced in scaling systems for Big Billion Days.
Strong background in distributed systems and databases.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on distributed systems and database management.

Contact

vsubramanian@confluent.io LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipEngineering ManagementDistributed ArchitectureCloud ComputingDatabase ManagementData Management

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAndroidAndroid DevelopmentApache PigBackup SolutionsBig DataCore JavaData MiningDatabasesDistributed SystemsFlexHadoopHibernateJ2EEJava

About

I am an Engineering Leader working in the Flipkart Cloud Platform (FCP) managing three critical portfolios - Managed Distributed SQL, Managed MySQL and Backup/Restore products over the last couple of years. These have since become some of the best loved products within Flipkart and form the platform basis which teams across the length and breadth of Flipkart are able to reliably scale up their systems year on year. Also, I have been fortunate enough to have experienced all 11 Big Billion Days (since inception in 2014), so I believe I have a reasonably good idea of what it takes to build and scale such systems. Over the many years, I have worked on a broad range of technologies including Databases, Distributed Systems, Big Data, Search Engines, Middleware, UI / UX, Mobile among others. I also have a basic understanding of Machine Learning. From the product management side, I have completed a certificate course from IIM-K. Specialties: engineering-management, product-management, distributed-architecture, backend(GoLang / Java), frontend(ReactJS), mobile(Android), UX

Experience

17 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr

Current Experience

Confluent

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Flipkart

5 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

Managing 3 hyper critical pure tech platforms at Flipkart - Horizontally Scalable Distributed SQL Database Platform, Fully Managed MySQL Database Platform and Fully Managed Backup & Restoration Platform. Responsible for planning & executing multi-pronged adoption strategies, technical product management, engineering leadership and customer success.

Engineering LeadershipEngineering Management

Engineering Manager

Mar 2022 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs

Currently managing three critical portfolios - Managed Distributed SQL, Managed MySQL and Backup/Restore product.

SDE 4 / Tech Lead

Promoted

Dec 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Leading the Managed Datastore for Flipkart - One of the largest MySQL fleets being managed in India.

SDE 3 Product

Jul 2015 – Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Handling Fulfillment at Flipkart.com
Fulfillment is the core piece of orchestration that talks to all backend services in Flipkart's supply chain world, directing each system when and what to do. From selection of the most optimal warehouse to finalizing the most optimal logistics provider, we are the entire supply chain's core resource planning system. Our main aim is to reduce over/under-bookings and deliver the product on or before the promised date in the most optimal way.

SDE 2 Product

Aug 2014 – Jun 2015 · 10 mos

Handling Fulfilment at Flipkart.com:
Keeping customers happy by making sure every order arrives before the promised date !

Yahoo!

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2011 – Jul 2014 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Currently working on the back-end processing of enormous amounts of data for the yahoo autos vertical using technologies such as Hadoop and Pig on the grid.

Verse innovation

Software Developer

Jul 2010 – Apr 2011 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mobile value-added-services with a Lucene search engine in the backend. End-to-end product development in J2EE(Spring) for mobjobs, Boot-strapped android product (mosho) and eventually owned it.

Kuliza technologies

Software Developer

May 2008 – Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Started career here and worked on KOL management system for fortune-500 medical companies, work involved both front-end and back-end, technically worked mainly on Spring, Hibernate and Lucene/Solr. Eventually in the course of two years, I ended up working with most of the related J2EE technologies like Flex/Webservices/jBPM/Oracle etc.