Vesta Equity
Co-Founder, CTO
Vish Rao Dumpeti
Technologist / Entrepreneur / Leader at @VestaEquity • @justworks • @makeme • @CLEAR • @wework • @spotify • @mediamath • @generalassembly • @yahoo • @NYTimes • @proquest • @hughes
Technologist / Entrepreneur / Leader at @VestaEquity • @justworks • @makeme • @CLEAR • @wework • @spotify • @mediamath • @generalassembly • @yahoo • @NYTimes • @proquest • @hughes
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Experience
MakeMe
Co-Founder, CTO (Fractional)
Leading overall product, engineering, and operations for MakeMe (MakeYou, Inc.), a leading mobile platform for hosting group challenges for personal and professional achievement.
-... more Leading product roadmaps and managing a distributed team of fulltime product designers, mobile, web, platform, and test engineers.
- Leading design and development of iOS, Android, and HTML5 mobile and web applications as well as SaaS platform solutions, utilizing Google Cloud Platform, Firebase, Facebook, and other cloud and platform services.
- Leading business strategy and operations, including funding, branding, marketing, sales, customer success, production, training, recruiting, etc.
-... more Leading product roadmaps and managing a distributed team of fulltime product designers, mobile, web, platform, and test engineers.
- Leading design and development of iOS, Android, and HTML5 mobile and web applications as well as SaaS platform solutions, utilizing Google Cloud Platform, Firebase, Facebook, and other cloud and platform services.
- Leading business strategy and operations, including funding, branding, marketing, sales, customer success, production, training, recruiting, etc.
Head of Engineering & Product (Technical)
Leading overall product and technology strategy and execution for core product experiences and platform services programs.
- Leading vertical product and service experience... more programs and teams across various domains, such as Growth, HRIS, Payments, Risk, etc to unlock and scale core flagship offerings.
- Leading horizontal platform programs and teams across Mobile, Web, Data, Partner APIs, etc to unlock and enable a multi-product ecosystem.
- Leading hiring, onboarding, and scaling of 150+ people and 15+ fullstack teams, with multiple engineering directors and senior managers, principal and staff engineers, and technical product management group across NYC, Toronto, and Brazil hubs.
- Leading engineering and technical product management disciplines and excellence programs across the R&D organization.
- Leading cross-functional R&D initiatives and partnering closely with the business on strategic planning and budgeting, talent acquisition and management, sales and marketing, customer success and enablement, legal and compliance, and other related areas.
- Leading vertical product and service experience... more programs and teams across various domains, such as Growth, HRIS, Payments, Risk, etc to unlock and scale core flagship offerings.
- Leading horizontal platform programs and teams across Mobile, Web, Data, Partner APIs, etc to unlock and enable a multi-product ecosystem.
- Leading hiring, onboarding, and scaling of 150+ people and 15+ fullstack teams, with multiple engineering directors and senior managers, principal and staff engineers, and technical product management group across NYC, Toronto, and Brazil hubs.
- Leading engineering and technical product management disciplines and excellence programs across the R&D organization.
- Leading cross-functional R&D initiatives and partnering closely with the business on strategic planning and budgeting, talent acquisition and management, sales and marketing, customer success and enablement, legal and compliance, and other related areas.
Clear
Head of Engineering
Leading overall technology strategy and growth initiatives for new verticals (and experiences) programs across Travel & Hospitality, Sports &
Entertainment, Healthcare,... more and more.
Leading overall technology strategy and growth initiatives for new verticals and phygital experiences programs.
- Leading key growth and strategic partnership initiatives across existing and new verticals, including Travel & Hospitality, Healthcare, Sports & Entertainment, etc.
- Launching new mobile, web and kiosk (software & hardware) experiences to scale and support over 100M+ strong identity uses across 100+ CLEAR and Health Pass enabled partner locations and events.
- Hiring, onboarding, and scaling new org to 10+ fullstack agile teams, with multiple directors and principal engineers, and across NYC and Austin offices.
Entertainment, Healthcare,... more and more.
Leading overall technology strategy and growth initiatives for new verticals and phygital experiences programs.
- Leading key growth and strategic partnership initiatives across existing and new verticals, including Travel & Hospitality, Healthcare, Sports & Entertainment, etc.
- Launching new mobile, web and kiosk (software & hardware) experiences to scale and support over 100M+ strong identity uses across 100+ CLEAR and Health Pass enabled partner locations and events.
- Hiring, onboarding, and scaling new org to 10+ fullstack agile teams, with multiple directors and principal engineers, and across NYC and Austin offices.
Director of Engineering
Leading overall technology strategy across multiple product areas in REDTech (Real Estate & Development) mission.
- Acting as a single-threaded leader, facilitating... more design sprints, and authoring a business case (PRFAQ) to automate and streamline financials related processes and drive actionable insights around $4.5B in CAPEX spend.
- Launching a new Financials product area and delivering new budget and cost management products, integrations and data solutions across internal/external business systems on an accelerated IPO-readiness timeline.
- Hiring, onboarding, developing, and organizing 4+ high performing teams of backend/frontend/fullstack engineers and leads across NYC and Seattle offices to deliver high quality systems.
- Partnering with cross-mission product, design, and data leads on strategic technology roadmaps, while forming strong business partnerships with
commercial stakeholders across the company.
- Partnering with fellow/principal/staff engineers on end-to-end system designs and engineering best practices across a portfolio of products and platforms.
- Partnering with cross-mission engineering leads on an engineering excellence strategy and translating it into engineering initiatives.
- Partnering with internal/external talent attraction and acquisition teams to facilitate cross-mission recruiting and onboarding programs to help scale
organization at a hyper-growth pace.
- Mentoring and coaching individuals and teams through mission and company-level initiatives and opportunities across functions of product, design,
engineering, business, operations, etc.
- Acting as a single-threaded leader, facilitating... more design sprints, and authoring a business case (PRFAQ) to automate and streamline financials related processes and drive actionable insights around $4.5B in CAPEX spend.
- Launching a new Financials product area and delivering new budget and cost management products, integrations and data solutions across internal/external business systems on an accelerated IPO-readiness timeline.
- Hiring, onboarding, developing, and organizing 4+ high performing teams of backend/frontend/fullstack engineers and leads across NYC and Seattle offices to deliver high quality systems.
- Partnering with cross-mission product, design, and data leads on strategic technology roadmaps, while forming strong business partnerships with
commercial stakeholders across the company.
- Partnering with fellow/principal/staff engineers on end-to-end system designs and engineering best practices across a portfolio of products and platforms.
- Partnering with cross-mission engineering leads on an engineering excellence strategy and translating it into engineering initiatives.
- Partnering with internal/external talent attraction and acquisition teams to facilitate cross-mission recruiting and onboarding programs to help scale
organization at a hyper-growth pace.
- Mentoring and coaching individuals and teams through mission and company-level initiatives and opportunities across functions of product, design,
engineering, business, operations, etc.
Senior Engineering Manager
Leading overall ad platform engineering for Ad Studio product area within Free Revenue mission.
- Hiring, onboarding, and managing a distributed team of backend/frontend/... more fullstack engineers and leads across 6+ cross-functional squads.
- Leading tech strategy of all aspects of the new self-serve ad platform, including ad accounts, campaigns, creatives, audiences, payments, serving, reporting, etc.
- Driving product and tech platformization strategy to shift from an MVP to a platform business, including launching new internal/external partner APIs.
- Partnering with product, design, and insights leads on product roadmaps, UX/ UI best practices, business metrics and insights dashboards.
- Coaching and mentoring individuals and teams thru regular 1:1s, development plans, talent snapshots, OKR roadmap planning, architecture
discussions, tech steering groups, etc.
- Mentoring product and tech owners on agile best practices, including backlog prioritization, user stories, acceptance criteria, definition of done, etc.
- Advocating engineering best practices and technical maturity levels thru efforts like automated cloud infra and sandboxing environments, service
resiliency and monitoring with SLAs, metrics and alerts, business and operational support with goalie and on-call rotations, quality with test certifications and automation tooling, incident management with post-mortems, etc.
- Partnering with dev and data platform teams on strategic cross-mission roadmaps around shared services and tooling.
- Driving strategy, coordination and sponsorship of company level engineering initiatives, including internal/external workshops, tech talks, unconferences, internship/fellowship programs, etc.
- Facilitating internal GDPR/ITGC compliances as well as external vendor security reviews and procurement efforts.
- Contributing to internal hack days, diversity and inclusion, recruiting and interviewing, engineering standards, career pathing, and other cross-mission
initiatives.
- Hiring, onboarding, and managing a distributed team of backend/frontend/... more fullstack engineers and leads across 6+ cross-functional squads.
- Leading tech strategy of all aspects of the new self-serve ad platform, including ad accounts, campaigns, creatives, audiences, payments, serving, reporting, etc.
- Driving product and tech platformization strategy to shift from an MVP to a platform business, including launching new internal/external partner APIs.
- Partnering with product, design, and insights leads on product roadmaps, UX/ UI best practices, business metrics and insights dashboards.
- Coaching and mentoring individuals and teams thru regular 1:1s, development plans, talent snapshots, OKR roadmap planning, architecture
discussions, tech steering groups, etc.
- Mentoring product and tech owners on agile best practices, including backlog prioritization, user stories, acceptance criteria, definition of done, etc.
- Advocating engineering best practices and technical maturity levels thru efforts like automated cloud infra and sandboxing environments, service
resiliency and monitoring with SLAs, metrics and alerts, business and operational support with goalie and on-call rotations, quality with test certifications and automation tooling, incident management with post-mortems, etc.
- Partnering with dev and data platform teams on strategic cross-mission roadmaps around shared services and tooling.
- Driving strategy, coordination and sponsorship of company level engineering initiatives, including internal/external workshops, tech talks, unconferences, internship/fellowship programs, etc.
- Facilitating internal GDPR/ITGC compliances as well as external vendor security reviews and procurement efforts.
- Contributing to internal hack days, diversity and inclusion, recruiting and interviewing, engineering standards, career pathing, and other cross-mission
initiatives.
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A strategic, transformational and impactful technologist, entrepreneur, and leader with 20+ years of hands-on technical leadership and engineering management experience across multiple domains at early to growth stage startups as well as large enterprises.
A mission-driven, customer-centric and results-oriented leader with extensive specializations in agile and lean product management and software development of innovative, large-scale mobile and web consumer experiences as well as platform solutions.
A passionate, compassionate and collaborative servant leader with excellent people skills and a proven ability to lead and influence product, engineering, design, insights teams as well as marketing, sales, customer success, finance, legal, people, and other business functions.
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