Vikas V.

Co-Founder

San Jose, California, United States20 yrs experience

AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years of software engineering experience.
Proven track record of leading teams and mentoring engineers.
Expertise in scalable solutions and cloud-native architectures.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused software engineer with extensive experience in backend systems and cloud-native architectures.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software ArchitectureAi-driven FeaturesSoftware Solution ArchitectureFounderSaas DevelopmentCloud ComputingTeam LeadershipSoftware EngineeringProblem Solving

Other Skills

local-first encrypted storagenatural language query engineprivacy-first architectureGolangmicroservices architecturecross-functional collaborationbackend architecturehigh-performance redirect engineclick analyticsnotification platformCI/CD pipelinesRustKafkacloud orchestrationKubernetes

About

Seasoned software engineer with 20+ years of experience driving innovation and delivering scalable solutions at startups and enterprises like Microsoft, GoGuardian and OneSignal. Expertise in backend systems, cloud-native architectures, and AI-driven features, with a proven track record of leading teams / mentoring engineers and driving 10x improvements in engagement, performance, and scalability.

Experience

20 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

4 mos

Current Experience

Mem/do

Builder

Feb 2026 – Present · 4 mos

Building mem.do, a personal memory assistant that remembers what you browse and helps you find it when you need it. Everything runs locally on your device. No cloud, no tracking, no data leaves your browser.
Leading product, engineering, and design. Chrome extension with on-device AI (classification, summarization, semantic search), local-first encrypted storage, and a natural language query engine that lets you search your browsing the way you actually think about it.
Focused on privacy-first architecture: AES-256 encryption at rest, zero telemetry, all AI processing on device. No servers see your data.

AI-driven featureslocal-first encrypted storagenatural language query engineprivacy-first architectureSoftware Architecture

Ergate ai

Founder

Jan 2026 – Present · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Awwsm inc

Founder / CTO (Exited)

Jun 2025 – Dec 2025 · 6 mos · Remote

Built and exited a URL infrastructure platform focused on intelligent link tracking and monitoring.
Led end-to-end backend architecture and development, including:
High-performance redirect engine optimized for low-latency at scale
Advanced click analytics (geo, device, referrer, UTM tracking)
Multi-resolution website screenshot system with historical versioning
Live website change detection and link health monitoring
Monetized interstitial/placeholder screens with ad support during redirect
Scalable microservices architecture with caching, background workers, and fault isolation
Designed the system to separate redirect performance from heavy compute workloads (screenshots, monitoring), ensuring reliability under traffic spikes.
Built, scaled, and sold in a private transaction within 6 months.

backend architecturehigh-performance redirect engineclick analyticsmicroservices architectureSoftware ArchitectureFounder

Goguardian

Engineering Manager

Aug 2022 – Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States · Remote

Led development of backend services in Golang, delivering a scalable microservices architecture that reduced latency by 30%, improved system uptime to 99.99%, and supported over 1 million users.
Integrated AI-driven features with OpenAI, Claude, and in-house models, increasing user task efficiency by 40% and enabling advanced capabilities for over 400,000 students.
Spearheaded integration of the TutorMe platform into GoGuardian’s ecosystem post-acquisition, collaborating with 10+ cross-functional teams, resulting in seamless support for 2M+ students across product lines.

Golangmicroservices architectureAI-driven featurescross-functional collaborationSoftware Solution Architecture

Nucleos

VP of Engineering

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Onesignal

Sr Software Engineer

Aug 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

Scaled a high-volume notification platform processing 10+ billion notifications daily, achieving 50% fewer deployment failures and 20% faster delivery speeds via optimized CI/CD pipelines.
Refactored ingestion systems using Rust, Kafka, and Go, reducing partner integration time from 2 weeks to 2 days while maintaining 99.99% uptime.
Designed and launched backend support for WebSDK, enabling new product features that increased user adoption by 15%.
Integrated 2-way with partners and third party systems (Amplitude, Adobe, Segment, MixPanel) to sync over 10mm requests per day

notification platformCI/CD pipelinesRustKafkaSoftware Solution ArchitectureSaaS Development

Sight machine

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Architected cloud orchestration platform for distributed task processing, reducing manual operations by 90% with Python/Flask and Celery.
Implemented Kubernetes operators to manage multi-cloud deployments across GCP and AWS, overseeing 100+ daily container deployments.
Achieved $250K annual cost savings by implementing intelligent auto-scaling with custom metrics and Prometheus.

cloud orchestrationKubernetesPython/FlaskCelerySoftware ArchitectureCloud Computing

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Focused on learning and developing new skills.
Travelled and networked to grow my professional network.
Took care of family member.

Eptura

Head of Engineering

Oct 2011 – Apr 2019 · 7 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Joined as #2 engineer, growth hacker, worked on multiple green field projects, architected from scratch and scaled to 1000s of customers making millions of bookings every day.
Launched Scheduling Engine to book Room/Desk/Parking Spaces/ Video Conferencing via C# / .net core. Rearchitected to launch as SaaS offering with multi-tenancy on Azure Cloud
Built high-performing teams through rigorous recruitment and mentorship, maintaining engineer retention by 80%.
Worked on Exchange Web Services integration to create 2 way sync between Condeco and Exchange Server meetings

green field projectsSaaS offeringhigh-performing teamsSaaS DevelopmentTeam Leadership

Microsoft india

Escalation Engineer

May 2006 – Oct 2011 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore, India · On-site

Delivered hot-fixes, service packs, and bug fixes for both Exchange and Outlook, reducing critical issue resolution time by 40%.
Created internal tool EWS Editor (later open-source to community), streamlining troubleshooting and cutting EWS test/debug cycles by 50%.
Wrote API code samples in .Net, C#, ASP.net, PowerShell, VBScripts, JScript's for
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vikas/
Shipped Exchange 2007, 2010 & Outlook 2010, VSTO & other Office SDKs

hot-fixesservice packsAPI code samplesSoftware EngineeringProblem Solving