Vikram Raman is an engineering manager with over a decade of experience building and leading teams that deliver resilient, large-scale observability and cloud infrastructure platforms. He has driven product and technical strategy from hands-on engineering at Wavefront and Observe to managerial roles at VMware, Observe, and Snowflake, with a focus on service infrastructure, data ingestion at scale, and enterprise features. Vikram combines deep systems expertise—spanning distributed tracing, service meshes, multi-cloud integrations, and SDKs—with a track record of operationalizing developer productivity and reliability. Known for bootstrapping teams and frameworks, he balances shipping foundational APIs with cultivating engineering maturity and customer-driven improvements. Based in Mountain View, he pairs an academic background in computer science with practical experience across startups and large enterprises, and often bridges field feedback into roadmap decisions.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.E Computer Science, B.E Computer Science at University of Madras
M.S Computer Science, M.S Computer Science at Kansas State University
Contributions:7 reviews, 27 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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