About

Dinesh Surajmal is a seasoned IT professional with over 21 years of experience, including 12 years in leadership roles such as Director, Senior Architect, and Senior Engineering Manager. Currently, he is the Head of Engineering (R&D) at VMware, where he manages a portfolio of enterprise-grade cloud products and SaaS services. Dinesh is passionate about building A+ happy teams, diversity and inclusion, innovation, crafting software design, execution, consumer analytics, and UX. He has worked with global organizations in the USA and India, including Google, Amadeus, Air Canada, Wells Fargo, GMAC, and NYSE. He has diversified domain experience in SaaS, B2B, B2C, on-prem & cloud lifecycle management, AWS, Azure, DevSecOps, PaaS, IaaS, data analytics, AI/ML, virtualization, NPC, observability, Kubernetes & containers, travel (airline e-commerce), insurance, banking/finance, hybrid cloud management, content & config management (SaltStack/Ansible/Github/Bitbucket/GitLab). Dinesh is proficient in setting up product engineering groups/verticals and has built, managed, and coached up to 50+ diversified team members, including managers and architects. As a thought leader, he has published technical whitepapers, filed patents, and planned and executed strategies for product engineering, innovation, and quicker releases to improve customer experience & time-to-value, build robust & resilient products, sustainable & predictable quality, and retrospect for continuous improvement in quality/processes/policies. Dinesh has engineered products/frameworks/platforms from inception to production and is proficient in architecture of highly available, distributed, scalable SaaS & N-tier web applications, developing APIs & micro-services for cloud, deriving technology stack, etc. He has broad experience in SDLC/PDLC methodologies such as iterative, waterfall & agile (Scrum, SQUAD, Sprint, Storyboard, XP(TDD, PP, CI/CD, DevOps). He has handled project planning, work allocation, budget & estimation, scheduling, tracking, metrics(MTTR), influencing, negotiation, stakeholder & risk management. Dinesh has practical experience in setting up 24/7 on-call support teams to handle critical customer issues. He has worked in past companies such as Amadeus and Google, where he achieved significant milestones such as scaling applications to ever-increasing traffic, achieving &