About Vamsi
Hi there, I am VP of Engineering at Metabase.
Previously, I ran engineering teams at AtoB, Facebook/Meta, AQR and Morgan Stanley.
I am a generalist software engineering leader. I have performed multiple roles in multiple domains in my career. Here are some roles.
Owned Product
- Facebook News Feed - favorites and most recent feeds
- AtoB Fuel card and Telematics security systems
- Collaborated with product management, design, user research and data science teams
- Built features and managed the entire lifecycle of the product
Owned Growth
- Responsible for growing the revenue and the number of customers
- Owned the top of the funnel systems
- Collaborated with marketing, growth operations and sales
Managed People
- Grew engineers and engineering managers in their career
- Coached my team on high performance, communication, professional development
- Gave feedback and performance reviews
- Managed high and low performers
Owned Infrastructure
- Continuous CI and CD
- Cloud hosting on AWS and Heroku
- Integrated Github, Heroku, AWS, Datadog, Sentry and other systems
- Saved $650K per month in SaaS costs (down drom $1MM per month)
Lead Engineering Teams Through Major Events
- 2008 financial crisis and subprime crisis
- 2015 Dodd Frank regulatory reforms
- 2020 COVID-19 lockdown
- 2022 layoffs (managed RIF at the company level)