Manoj Sharma
SVP Platform Engineering
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManoj Sharma is a seasoned product and platform engineering executive with a track record of building cloud-native, AI-driven infrastructure and enterprise software across startups and hyperscalers. He led the creation and growth of VMware-as-a-Service at CloudSimple and scaled Google Cloud VMware Engine, and more recently runs Core AI and Data Platforms at BetterUp while advising AI-driven portfolio construction at Fore Markets. His background blends deep technical product work—founding VMware’s vCenter Storage Management team and shipping analytics-driven vCenter Capacity IQ—with commercial success, including driving a $1B+ product line and enabling $2B of new business at Cisco. Manoj is equally comfortable bootstrapping predictive analytics startups (Forespire) and delivering large distributed systems and MLOps pipelines, bringing hands-on inventorship evidenced by multiple patents. He holds degrees from IIT Bombay, University of Maryland, and an MBA from Wharton, combining engineering rigor with go-to-market and strategy expertise. A practical systems thinker, he repeatedly turns observability and capacity insights into scalable products that measurably reduce operational risk and cost.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayMS Computer Science Specialization in Database Systems, MS Computer Science Specialization in Database Systems at University of MarylandMBA General Management Palmer Scholar, MBA General Management Palmer Scholar at The Wharton School
English
Github Skills (28)
attention-mechanism7
socket6
text-to-image6
unroll5
socket-io5
artificial-intelligence4
transformers4
bootstrap4
nodejs4
deep-learning4
chat4
replication4
parsing3
transformer3
javascript3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CiscoZeus/fluent-plugin-fields-autotype
Sep 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes in 7 months
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CiscoZeus/data-generator
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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