Vinod Hegde
Software Engineering Manager at WhatsApp
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVinod Hegde is a seasoned software engineering manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 18+ years of engineering leadership and 13 years of hands-on experience building large-scale distributed systems. He has led high-impact teams at WhatsApp and Amazon, where he engineered cost and latency improvements for web data processing pipelines used to power near-real-time customer experiences and large training datasets for LLMs. At Visa he helped design and deliver Open VisaNet, a next-generation, microservices-based payment platform, and has deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, Kafka, and resilient distributed services. Vinod combines technical ownership—having built frameworks, productionized ML enrichments, and driven significant operational savings—with people leadership focused on coaching, promotions, and cross-functional stakeholder management. He pairs an early-career background in systems and Erlang-based infrastructure with later success in Go/Java and platform engineering, which gives him fluency across both low-level systems and ML/data pipelines. Known for measurable impact (multi-million dollar savings and drastic latency reductions), he thrives on turning complex requirements into reliable, scalable production systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceHigh School, High School at VVS High SchoolBachelor's Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityProject Management, Project Management at Stanford Continuing Studies
English, Kannada, Hindi
Stackoverflow
2,243reputation
56kreached
65answers
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erlang
top-5%
Github Skills (14)
erlang9
compile9
parse7
transform6
foreach6
rebar6
oz6
ets6
concurrency6
operating-system6
distributed-computing6
scala6
binary-search6
elixir1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vinod-hg/guardian
Jul 2013 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 19 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 3 months
callingerlangtransformguardsparse
vinod-hg/etsq
Apr 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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