Summary
Sonali Desai is a product marketing engineer who blends software engineering depth with strategic GTM leadership, currently shaping product positioning at VMware by Broadcom since 2024. She previously led product marketing for VMware Cloud on AWS, driving adoption and partner engagement, and before that defined the SAP Cloud Platform vision, roadmap, pricing, and developer-focused GTM initiatives. Based in Sunnyvale, California, she brings nearly a decade of cross-functional experience across software engineering, product management, and marketing in enterprise and cloud environments. She holds an MBA from Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business with a focus on Marketing, Data Science, and Business Analytics, and an MS in Software Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, combining business acumen with technical rigor. Early in her career she built software at Pace and Wells Fargo, grounding her approach in delivery, stakeholder management, and user-centric design. She translates complex technical concepts into compelling narratives for developers, partners, and executives, delivering measurable go-to-market impact.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
3.92, 3.92 at Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business