Summary
Ashish Thapliyal is a product executive with 11+ years of experience building AI systems and cloud data platforms, currently serving as Vice President of Product at Salesforce after leading Autonomous AI Agents and Data Cloud initiatives. He blends deep technical roots from a decade at Microsoft—where he worked on Azure Data and Hadoop-as-a-service—with product leadership that turns complex distributed systems into user-facing, revenue-driving offerings. Based in Redmond/Frisco, he is comfortable bridging engineering, go-to-market, and executive stakeholders to ship large-scale SaaS and cloud services. Notably, his background spans hands-on software engineering, developer advocacy, and principal product management, giving him rare fluency across code, platform, and product strategy. He holds an MCA in Computer Science and has a track record of moving cloud data technologies from platform design into production at hyperscale.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications Computer Science at SGRRITS
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