Vamshi Bhoopalam
Director Of Platform Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVamshi Bhoopalam is a seasoned platform engineering leader with 18+ years of product development experience and a track record of scaling data platforms for enterprise customers. Currently Director of Platform Engineering in San Francisco, he has driven initiatives that improved read/write performance by 95% and scaled ingest pipelines to process 10TB+ monthly for 600+ customers. He blends hands-on systems work (Golang, Python, Airflow, AWS, Kubernetes) with strategic planning—OKRs, budget and resource forecasting, and engineering career ladders—to align product and finance goals. A pragmatic builder who reduces customer friction (e.g., cutting integration time from days to under 30 minutes), he also mentors engineers into Senior and Staff roles. Outside core roles he rapidly prototyped a conversational AI healthcare assistant integrating Twilio, IBM Watson and GPT-3, demonstrating an appetite for fast innovation and applied ML. Colleagues describe him as a clear communicator who builds durable teams and sustainable, customer-focused solutions.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityNational College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore-4(Autonomous)
English, Kannada
Github Skills (11)
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open-source4
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opentofu1
kubernetes1
terraform1
infrastructure-as-code1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
Appdynamics/OSS
Sep 2017 - Jul 2019
Third Party Open Source Software
Contributions:28 commits, 6 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 10 months
partyazerothcorecfmladministratorperl
czfighter/sustainable-solutions
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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