Vinay Bhardwaj

CTO and Head of Engineering @ ZL Tech

About

Technology leader with 25+ years of global experience in delivering high-quality, secure software products and building high-caliber teams in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments. Over two decades of leadership in the Cloud Computing industry, with a proven ability to drive innovation and adapt to evolving technologies. Deep technical and functional expertise in cloud platforms, usage-based billing systems for IaaS and SaaS, data analytics, ERP and CRM integrations, and enterprise applications. Known for a hands-on approach in building products from idea inception to full-scale delivery, and for modernizing legacy systems into best-in-class SaaS platforms. Extensive experience in architecting and implementing highly scalable, complex systems. Successfully led cross-functional teams to develop and enhance multi-tenant cloud service broker platforms, help desk systems, monitoring and logging frameworks, and robust integration architectures. Demonstrated success in setting up and scaling offshore operations, managing globally distributed teams, and driving architecture, design, and implementation of large-scale cloud-native business applications.

Country

United States

City

Milpitas

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Leadership, Cloud Computing, Product Development, Product Management, Decision-Making, SaaS, Managing Global Operations, Software Design, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile Methodologies, Web Services, Quality Assurance, Software Project Management, Software Development, Project Management, Integration, Enterprise Architecture, Oracle, Java Enterprise Edition, REST

Experience

CTO and Head of Engineering

ZL Tech

2023-2 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

Milpitas, California, United States

Head of Cloud Strategy

ZL Tech

2022-1 - 2023-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Milpitas, California, United States

Leading the ZL Tech cloud initiative as ZL Tech is on a path to modernize its entire product architecture to make the product available as a multi-tenant service across multiple cloud platforms.

VP of Product Development | Innovation | Product Architecture & Design | Quality Assurance

Jamcracker

2014-2 - 2021-12 · 7 yrs 11 mos

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer with the responsibility of Innovation, Product Architecture & Design, Quality Assurance and Product Delivery for the industry pioneering Jamcracker Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB) enablement and Cloud Management (CMP) platform, JSDN, that is pre-integrated to over 100 cloud services - SaaS, PaaS, IaaS: Compute, Storage - from various ISVs. Part of the leadership team to define the overall product Strategy and target markets.

Vice President Of Product Architecture and Design | Quality Assurance

Jamcracker

2011-6 - 2014-2 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Vice President of Product Architecture and Design

Jamcracker

2007-6 - 2011-6 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Senior Director Of Engineering

Jamcracker

2004-1 - 2007-6 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Director Of Engineering

Jamcracker

2002-6 - 2003-12 · 1 yr 7 mos

Santa Clara, California, United States

Senior Engineering Manager

Jamcracker

2000-6 - 2002-6 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Senior Software Development Manager

Oracle

1998-11 - 2000-6 · 1 yr 8 mos

Redwood City, California, United States

Led the cross-functional software development team for designing and building web based products for the Oracle Application Division. Selected to lead cross-functional teams from different products of Oracle Application division to ensure implementation of standard infrastructure components across internet products

Senior Project Lead

Oracle

1996-11 - 1998-10 · 2 yrs

Redwood City, California, United States

Appointed by Oracle Management to lead a part of Oracle Application Implementation for Kellogg's, Manchester UK. I was part of the architecture team to create and define standards and strategy for application Integration while building prototypes using different middleware products. Recruited to lead a team of engineers to create Oracle Applications-based solutions for the Consumer Packaged Industry. This involved integrating five products from different vendors to create a unique and unified product.