Summary
Vikram Rao is an engineering leader and architect with 13+ years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, multi-tenant platforms and production AI systems that scale across enterprise and high-growth startups. He specializes in operationalizing LLMs and treating AI as infrastructure, owning reliability, cost, security, and observability to enable safe, scalable shipping. Vikram has led large-scale modernization and cloud migration efforts, moved organizations from SOA to microservices, and built teams from zero to 60+ engineers while mentoring many into leadership roles. He partners with CTOs and business stakeholders to make disciplined trade-offs, aligning platform strategy with product outcomes. Equally comfortable in Golang, Kafka, AWS/GCP stacks and in the boardroom, he combines deep technical craft with organizational design to improve delivery reliability and long-term leverage. Based in Bengaluru, he brings a pragmatic, execution-first approach that balances engineering rigor with measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
St Joseph's University