Abhijeet Gijare
Engineering Leader, ML, Products, Platforms & Infrastructure
Menlo Park,CA
Summary
Experienced engineering leader with 25+ years of progressive experience in software development and strategic leadership. Proficient in building and scaling cloud infrastructure to support business growth and improve operational efficiency. Well-versed with ML techniques and the infrastructure needs of ML workloads
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
6
6
Certificates
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Software Engineering Manager
Meta
Menlo Park, CA
06.2025 - Current
- Built AI tools for microscopic and macroscopic analysis of Advertiser pain areas
- Drove AI Led Resolution for top advertiser pain areas
- Bootstrapped a new team and integrated Meta AI Business and Support Assistant in Meta products
- Built LLM powered flywheel to improve Meta's knowledge articles based on chatbot's performance feedback
- Drove Agent Evaluation using LLM judges, defined guardrails for AI experience and conversation quality
Software Development Manager: Cloud Infra
Google
Raleigh-Durham Metro Area, NC
6 2023 - 06.2025
- As Engineering Manager in Cloud Infra team of GCP, led the capacity planning for storage, network and ML workloads across 42 regions.
- Established a new team and led zone-diverse regional demand forecasting and capacity landing with domain failure scenarios.
- Developed infrastructure planning solutions for ML workloads, addressing customer needs for compute colocation and network.
- Developed long term roadmap and drove the initiatives while maintaining strong focus on operations and people growth.
Software Development Manager, Tech Infra
Google
Seattle, WA
06.2020 - 06.2023
- As an Engineering Manager in Google's Tech Infra organization, led a team of engineers & managers for Fleet Deployment Optimization and launched over 60 new fleet configurations
- Delivered software for Unified Hardware Modeling for Racks and ML super-pods which simplified the fleet configuration across all the systems
- Built roadmap and bootstrapped new teams to drive towards a shared vision
- Owned delivery, operations and execution while partnering across the organization.
Sr. Engineering Manager and Site Lead
VMware Inc.
Seattle, WA
01.2019 - 06.2020
- Built and led diverse and global engineering team to build VMware Cloud as SaaS product that offers VMware's enterprise-class Software Defined Data Center software on Bare Metal instances in the AWS Cloud
- Enhanced the product to offer block storage from AWS as virtual storage in the Software Defined Data Center.
- Partnered with AWS Engineering to design, develop and scale the control plane, allowing 800+ enterprise customers in 33 global regions to extend their private cloud vSphere workloads to AWS Cloud
- Built vision, roadmap and technical strategy for the product while managing end-to-end lifecycle including operations.
Software Development Manager
Amazon
Seattle, WA
06.2015 - 01.2019
- Owned end-to-end lifecycle of AWS Commerce Platform components including SDLC for feature enhancements, region expansions and operations to meet the SLOs
- Developed and executed roadmap for web services that power Kindle subscriptions and author facing functions which are adapted by over 70000 authors and 3 million readers globally
- Built and managed team of 15 engineers and one manager
- Provided technical and process leadership to improve efficiency and quality.
Senior Engineering Manager - GoTo Products
Citrix Systems Inc.
Santa Barbara, CA
10.2013 - 05.2015
- Built and led highly engaged global engineering teams of 2 architects, 18 engineers and 2 managers in US, Germany and India to deliver SaaS products for Online Conferencing (GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining)
- Developed and scaled the services to allow 1000 users per conference with high quality audio, HD video and screen-sharing experience
- Co-owned product roadmap and vision with business counterpart
- Accelerated decisions and outcomes.
Engineering Manager - GoTo Products
Citrix Systems Inc.
Santa Barbara, CA
10.2011 - 10.2013
- Managed tech team merger and restructured the organization as a part of Netviewer AG acquisition in Germany
- Delivered core services that power video sharing and recording features in online conferences (GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining)
- Delivered AWS Kinesis based telemetry pipeline that processes 6 million events per hour at peak
- Provided technical leadership and architectural oversight while making key design decisions.
Staff Software Engineer | GoTo Products
Citrix Systems Inc.
Santa Barbara, CA
04.2010 - 10.2011
- Owned end-to-end development and cross-team technical leadership of platform services used for Online Conferencing products (GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining)
- Designed, developed and scaled RESTful services using service-oriented-architecture
- Managed tech team merger as a part of Vidsoft Gmbh acquisition.
Senior Software Engineer
Citrix Systems
Santa Barbara, CA
01.2008 - 04.2010
- Rearchitected a heavy monolithic system to adopt micro-service based architecture
- Built service-oriented middleware platform using Java/J2EE technologies and integrated with online conferencing products (GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar).
Technical Consultant
Fox Interactive Media
Los Angeles, CA
02.2007 - 01.2008
- Designed, developed and tested Java/J2EE based web applications.
Senior Software Engineer
Persistent Systems
Pune, India
06.2005 - 02.2007
- Designed and developed software solutions using distributed systems on Java/J2EE platform.
Senior Software Engineer
Capgemini
Los Angeles, CA
03.2002 - 05.2005
- Designed, developed and tested web applications using Java/J2EE platform.
Software Engineer
3i Infotech
Mumbai, India
01.2001 - 03.2002
- Developed Java/J2EE based applications.
Member of Technical Staff
SIEMENS
Mumbai, India
08.1999 - 12.2000
- Developed Real-Time Control Systems for industrial automation using C, PLC and SCADA systems.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communication
Dr. B.A.M University
India 07.1995 - 07.1999
Skills
Global Team Management
Site Leadership
Agile Methodologies
Scrum, Kanban
Project Management
Product Lifecycle
Vision and Roadmap Development
Operational Excellence
Data driven decisions
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Recruitment and retention strategies
Org Structure and Strategy
Mergers and Acquisitions
Budgeting and Cost Center Management
Certification
ML Business Applications, PG Diploma - [UT Austin]
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
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morning
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evening
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Timeline
Software Engineering Manager
Meta
06.2025 - Current
Software Development Manager, Tech Infra
Google
06.2020 - 06.2023
Sr. Engineering Manager and Site Lead
VMware Inc.
01.2019 - 06.2020
Software Development Manager
Amazon
06.2015 - 01.2019
Senior Engineering Manager - GoTo Products
Citrix Systems Inc.
10.2013 - 05.2015
Engineering Manager - GoTo Products
Citrix Systems Inc.
10.2011 - 10.2013
Staff Software Engineer | GoTo Products
Citrix Systems Inc.
04.2010 - 10.2011
Senior Software Engineer
Citrix Systems
01.2008 - 04.2010
Technical Consultant
Fox Interactive Media
02.2007 - 01.2008
Senior Software Engineer
Persistent Systems
06.2005 - 02.2007
Senior Software Engineer
Capgemini
03.2002 - 05.2005
Software Engineer
3i Infotech
01.2001 - 03.2002
Member of Technical Staff
SIEMENS
08.1999 - 12.2000
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communication
Dr. B.A.M University
07.1995 - 07.1999
Software Development Manager: Cloud Infra
Google
6 2023 - 06.2025
Applied ML Skills
LLM Applications & Frameworks: Generative AI, Multimodal RAG, Agentic AI, LangChain, LangGraph, ReAct Agents, Agent-Chaining using PhiData
VectorDB & Embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe, CLIP, SigLip Image Embeddings, AstraDB, ChromaDB, FAISS, Index Embeddings (Llama), Distance Metrics (Dot Product & Cosine Similarity)
Methods: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Decision Trees, Ensemble Methods, Gradient Boosting, NLP, Computer Vision, Regression, Clustering
Tools & Libraries: Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, Matplotlib), Colab, Jupyter, AWS SageMaker, Google AI Studio
Technical Skills
Distributed Systems
Service Oriented Architecture, API Design
Java/J2EE Platform
Cloud Technologies
Web Frameworks, MVC
Backend/RDBMS/NoSQL DBs
Service Reliability, Operations and Scaling
DevOps (Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven, Docker, Terraform, Git)
Applied ML Skills
LLM Applications & Frameworks: Generative AI, Multimodal RAG, Agentic AI, LangChain, LangGraph, ReAct Agents, Agent-Chaining using PhiData
VectorDB & Embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe, CLIP, SigLip Image Embeddings, AstraDB, ChromaDB, FAISS, Index Embeddings (Llama), Distance Metrics (Dot Product & Cosine Similarity)
Methods: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Decision Trees, Ensemble Methods, Gradient Boosting, NLP, Computer Vision, Regression, Clustering
Tools & Libraries: Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, Matplotlib), Colab, Jupyter, AWS SageMaker, Google AI Studio