About

Shalini Krishna is a highly experienced Senior Manager at VMware with expertise in building enterprise cloud and on-premise applications using Agile methodologies. With over 13 years of relevant experience, Shalini has a proven track record of managing diversified teams globally, ensuring high-quality software development, and fostering team engagement and agility. As an engineering manager, Shalini has a hands-on approach to managing teams, focusing on hiring, mentoring, coaching, team and trust building, staffing for growth, delegation, dependency management, and risk mitigation. She is also skilled in estimation, work breakdown and tracking, managing expectations and escalations, performance review and feedback, compensation and benefits, managing across career levels, and managing across cultures and timezones. Shalini's specialties include C/C++, VMware, vSphere, VDI, Windows Internals, Siebel CRM, SQL, XML, XSLT, REST, SOAP, Enterprise Application Integration, Scrum, and Kanban. She has a strong technical background and is well-versed in software engineering, software testing, and quality assurance. Prior to joining VMware, Shalini worked as a Software Development Manager at Oracle, where she led a team of developers and quality assurance members across Communications-Media-Energy, Finance, and Pharma industries to deliver innovative integrated solutions. She also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Symphony Services, where she developed a Teradata bulk data load and integration module for Hyperion Essbase BI server, which dramatically decreased the data load time to one-third of the existing time. This module was a deal-clincher for Hyperion when selling to a large US-based retail chain and was recognized by the Engineering VP for on-time delivery with quality. Shalini holds an Executive MBA from IIM and has a strong tech stack that includes integration, SQL, software engineering, senior software engineering, QA, C, and testing. She is a highly motivated individual who is passionate about building high-quality software and managing teams to achieve their full potential.