Vijay Goodavagaram

CEO

Fremont, California, United States32 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 15 years of leadership in SaaS applications.
  • Expert in building high-performance developer productivity teams.
  • Proven track record in implementing microservices and BDD.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on developer productivity and enterprise application delivery.

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Skills

Core Skills

Developer ProductivityScalabilityMicroservicesCustomer SuccessService DeliveryTeam BuildingApplication DevelopmentMonitoring Solutions

Other Skills

RDBMSJavaRESTApache SparkERP ApplicationsQuality AssuranceProgrammingSoftware Development MethodologiesRisk ManagementMulti-Tenant ManagementQuality ControlDatabase ApplicationsReact.jsAgile MethodologiesCloud Computing

About

Over 15 years of leadership experience in building teams, delivering SaaS enterprise applications, improving developer productivity, and helping customers succeed. Cross-functional experience, working with development, product management, support, and sales organizations. Enjoy working with my team, delivering innovative solutions in the areas of resiliency, scalability, analytics, Microservices, test-driven design, CI/CD, and observability. Passionate about building tools, products, and platforms that improve developer and customer productivity. Built multiple teams across US, India, and Mexico, from the ground up, by recruiting engineers, engineering managers, and directors to deliver industry-leading supply chain/procurement applications. Helped set up meaningful engineering processes, best practices, infrastructure, and org culture that helped deliver highly successful enterprise applications at Oracle. Introduced and Implemented Scrum, Behavior Driven Development(BDD), and RCA/CAPA process in the Oracle Supply Chain Organization. Supported teams at Meta in building scalable and high-performance compute platforms that handled spark and graph query workloads at an Exabyte scale. Led the developer productivity teams at Oracle and Meta.

Experience

32 yrs
Total Experience
7 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Oracle

4 roles

Senior Director

Promoted

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Redwood City, California, United States · Hybrid

Senior Director

Promoted

Jan 2016Jun 2022 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Redwood City, California, United States · On-site

  • Owner of the “Oracle Fusion Purchasing” application. Led the developer productivity working group. Recruited and built a new development team in Guadalajara, Mexico, and led a team of architects, senior managers, and a senior director across the US, India, and Mexico.
  • Microservices: Utilizing Domain-Driven Decomposition methodology, designed and implemented the purchasing microservices by collaborating with customers, architects, and the strategy team.
  • Cognitive Sourcing: Implemented a recommendation system, providing healthcare customers with more choices of reliable suppliers and increased cost savings, translating to better patient care.
  • Behavior-Driven Development (BDD): By implementing BDD and developing tools to convert requirements into a domain-specific language, developers could generate tests, reduce development time, and improve product quality.
  • Led Customer Success Program: Supported and helped a growing customer base of 3000+ enterprise customers succeed. Collaborated with sales, marketing, and customers to implement critical features and provide superior customer support
ERP ApplicationsRDBMSJavaRESTMicroservicesCustomer Success

Director

Promoted

Jan 2010Jan 2016 · 6 yrs · Redwood City, California, United States · On-site

  • Recruited and supported global product development teams for "Oracle Fusion Purchasing" SaaS on Oracle public cloud. Established development processes and collaborated with documentation, sales, and marketing teams for successful service delivery. Wore multiple hats, helping with Software development, Product Management, and Customer Success. Trained support organizations across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions.
  • Delivered the Oracle Fusion Purchasing SaaS Service: Worked with Customers and User Experience team to build responsive, easy-to-use, HIPAA-compliant, and OAG 3.0-compliant ERP applications with embedded business intelligence and analytics.
  • Set up Development Team: Built a new team, establishing the right culture, processes, best practices, platform, and infrastructure. Drove backlog prioritization and led the technical architecture effort. Set up customer support and on-call schedules.
  • Delivery of Purchasing REST APIs: Collaborated with architects and customers to build REST APIs for Purchasing SaaS service. Formulated and shared best practices with other organizations ensuring a consistent and high-quality approach to API development.
ERP ApplicationsRDBMSJavaRESTService DeliveryTeam Building

Systems Engineer - Senior Development Manager

Jun 1999Jan 2010 · 10 yrs 7 mos · Redwood City, California, United States · On-site

  • Delivered Oracle application server, monitoring platform, search, and web applications.
  • Shopping solution: Implemented Oracle’s First Web-based Procurement Solution. Built a catalog search solution using the “Oracle Text” NLP solution.
  • Application Server and Monitoring Platform: Launched Oracle’s first HTTP listener and SNMP monitoring platform for Oracle Applications Server using ‘C.’
ERP ApplicationsRDBMSJavaRESTApplication DevelopmentMonitoring Solutions

Meta

Sr Engineering Manager

Jun 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Led the compute platforms and developer productivity teams across the US, Canada, and the UK. The compute platform handles the spark and graph workloads at the Exabyte scale
  • Improved resiliency: Implemented measures to enhance resiliency, auto-tune configuration, and minimize error scenarios, leading to reduced wasted compute and increased efficiency.
  • Increased Developer Productivity: Led the effort to reduce build time and Implemented test automation, resulting in faster development iterations, reduced manual testing efforts, and early detection of test failures and regressions.
  • Led the EU Privacy/GDPR compliance: Helped with compute platform compliance with the EU privacy order by allowing users to opt out of personalized ads.
  • Redefined User Experience: Redefined on-call policies to provide an enhanced customer support experience and better developer work-life balance.
RDBMSJavaRESTApache SparkDeveloper ProductivityScalability

Software pundits inc

Senior Software Engineer - Networking

Jan 1997Jan 1999 · 2 yrs · Santa Clara, California, United States

  • • Implemented Networking and Network Management Solutions, using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for Xerox, HP and Oracle to help manage their IT hardware and software resources via a central monitoring dashboard
Quality AssuranceProgramming

Bfl software

System Engineer

Jan 1994Jan 1997 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Developed telemetry system to monitor server statuses, alert customer operations team about impending component failures
  • Implemented network device drivers for Compaq desktops and workstations
  • Drafted and rolled out the company's software release process
Quality AssuranceSoftware Development Methodologies

Education

University of Madras

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

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