Summary
Vivek Sekhar is a seasoned Director of Engineering based in San Diego with over 14 years of hands-on experience leading device and cloud engineering teams at scale, and more than 20 years of combined technical and management experience across embedded, security, wireless, and cloud services. At Qualcomm he defines roadmaps and architects end-to-end solutions for device onboarding, authentication, OTA provisioning, and licensing, while leading cloud services on AWS and driving measurable reductions in customer issues through automated crash-tracking and telemetry systems. A pragmatic technologist and mentor, he prototypes and ships robust, maintainable systems—from a Chromium-based rendering engine fork for performance and privacy to HTML5 frameworks exposing Android device APIs. His expertise spans C/C++, Java/Kotlin, Android, Spring Boot, Docker, Node.js, Python, databases, search and applied cryptography, enabling him to bridge low-level device constraints with scalable cloud architectures. Known for combining strategic foresight with hands-on delivery, he also brings an uncommon focus on real-time analytics and customer-facing observability that directly informs product and reliability decisions.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer and Information Sciences, General at P E S Institute of Technology, BANGALORE
San Diego State University