Vijay Ramesh is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building data-driven, cloud-native platforms and leading cross-functional teams from startup to enterprise scale. Currently Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce after leading AI engineering at Regrello, he has a strong track record of aligning product, security, cloud ops and finance to deliver reliable, observable systems. Previously he led application development and data science efforts at Demandbase, driving unified platform architecture, CI/CD, and ML-backed features. Early career work spans production ML and NLP systems at Change.org and Powerset, where he built distributed ETL pipelines, automated model training, and semantic search tooling. Comfortable both setting strategy and diving into technical details, he blends a philosophy/linguistics background with deep practical experience in Java, Python, Go and cloud architectures. Known for translating complex requirements into measurable roadmaps, he also brings an uncommon mix of data-science rigor and product-focused engineering leadership.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA Philosophy (Linguistics), BA Philosophy (Linguistics) at Kalamazoo College
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Red Cross Nordic United World College
Contributions:12 PRs, 16 pushes, 9 branches in 10 months
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Vijay Ramesh - Vice President Of Engineering at Salesforce