Vaidehi Rao
Cupertino,CA
Summary
As an accomplished engineering leader, I bring a proven history of spearheading backend technology initiatives, optimizing systems, and driving operational efficiency. My goal as a VP of Engineering is to lead dynamic teams in building robust and scalable backend solutions. By leveraging my technical expertise and strategic vision, I aim to architect innovative systems, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and align backend development with the overarching business objectives.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
VP of Engineering
Cowbell Cyber Inc
02.2022 - Current
- Successfully building and leading cross-functional teams comprising talented
- engineers in the US, Canada, and India, overseeing backend development,architecture, and optimization.
- Mentoring and cultivating engineering talent, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and professional growth
- Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment between backend engineering efforts and business objectives, enabling the organization to stay agile in a rapidly evolving market.
- Collaborating closely with external teams and internal cross-functional teams, including product management and design to deliver seamless end-to-end solutions that exceeded customer expectations.
- Defining and executing the technical vision and roadmap for the backend, aligning with company goals and growth strategies.
- Play a pivotal role in evaluating and adopting new technologies, frameworks, and tools to enhance the backend architecture and development processes.
- Implementing robust monitoring and performance optimization strategies, ensuring the backend systems maintained high availability and met stringent performance benchmarks.
- Continuously deliver high performing products and enhance existing products to meet the market demands.
- Successfully introduced agile methodologies
SR Director of Engineering
Cowbell Cyber Inc
06.2019 - 01.2022
- Founding team member at Cowbell Cyber
- Building a high performing innovative cutting edge Cyber Insurance Saas Platform from ground up catering to SMEs.
- Instrumental in evaluating and adopting new technologies, frameworks, and tools to build the backend SaaS platform.
- Instrumental in setting up engineering processes and delivering products in time.
- Introduced engineering best practices to help grow team at scale
- Build Policy administration Saas platform to provide insurance for SMEs
- Championed a culture of code reviews, automated testing, and continuous improvement, resulting in higher code quality and faster delivery cycles.
Director of Engineering
Cavirin Systems Inc
02.2018 - 03.2019
- Managing teams in the US and India to drive various projects.
- Designed and developed unified cloud architecture for AWS, Azure and GCP to apply security benchmarks.
- Designed and developed monitoring features for the cloud.
- Implemented frameworks for cloud workflow.
- Building highly scalable products.
- Managed teams to build Monitoring features for Container events.
- Finding a better approach / right technology to achieve faster and better results.
Engineering Manager
Cavirin Systems Inc
02.2017 - 02.2018
- Built and managed Team in US and India.
- Worked on the architecture for Docker image scanning ,running security analysis and monitoring cloudtrail events.
- Identified right approach to run security rules for public/private based docker images.
- Working alongside the team to deliver features in a timely manner.
Staff Engineer/Team Lead
Cavirin Systems Inc
02.2016 - 02.2017
- As a team lead provided technical guidance to the team to meet deadlines in a timely
- fashion.
- Worked on compliance and security products for Cloud(AWS), Docker and on-prem
- devices.
- Worked on a new architecture of the existing product to improve scalability and performance.
- Built compliance using AWS CIS benchmark, Docker CIS benchmark.
Senior Member of Technical Staff
VMWare
06.2015 - 02.2016
- Worked on CloudFlare for DDOS protection and WAF features.
- Worked on features for VMWare HOL (Hands on Labs)
- Processed logs to generate the desired JSON format, in order to run analytics.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
CalState East Bay
Hayward06.2007
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
NMAMIT
India07.2003
Skills
- PRODUCT STRATEGY, DEVELOPMENT & LAUNCH
- TEAM LEADERSHIP
- INNOVATION
- ENGINEERING PROCESSES
- Building product from ground up
Timeline
VP of Engineering
Cowbell Cyber Inc
02.2022 - Current
SR Director of Engineering
Cowbell Cyber Inc
06.2019 - 01.2022
Director of Engineering
Cavirin Systems Inc
02.2018 - 03.2019
Engineering Manager
Cavirin Systems Inc
02.2017 - 02.2018
Staff Engineer/Team Lead
Cavirin Systems Inc
02.2016 - 02.2017
Senior Member of Technical Staff
VMWare
06.2015 - 02.2016
Master of Science - Computer Science
CalState East Bay
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
NMAMIT
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