About

Vardaan Goyal is a seasoned engineering leader with over 20 years of experience in building large-scale, highly distributed global enterprise applications with high availability and reliability leveraging cloud architecture. He is currently the Vice President of Data Platform, Data Science Products, Analytics and Software Engineering at Red Ventures, where he leads talented teams of software engineers, data engineers, and data scientists for strategic initiatives in the digital marketing space. Vardaan is a hands-on engineering leader with extensive experience in business planning and execution of large-scale global programs. He has managed large product and engineering organizations with geographically spread teams of software engineers, data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts. He is part of the executive engineering leadership team, driving transformation in data, platforms, data science, and data analytics. Vardaan played a key part in Nike's Consumer Digital organization team responsible for digital transformation by building a cloud-native, scalable eCommerce platform with multi-region architecture. As part of this journey, he led the transition to the DevOps model where engineers have end-to-end ownership of code, tests, deployment, and 24x7 operational support in an agile-based Continuous Delivery model. Vardaan's key focus areas include building and fostering diverse, inclusive teams with a common mission across geographically diverse locations, collaborating with executive leadership, business, and other engineering leaders on all matters that impact the Engineering team, including resourcing and building technical/product vision, leading multiple engineering teams building eCommerce, digital marketing solutions using technologies like Java, React, GoLang, DataBricks, AWS, GCP, Kafka in a cloud computing multi-region infrastructure, coaching and mentoring engineering teams, including code reviews, higher-level software design, and direct management, and developing customer obsession and operational excellence culture focused on metrics and KPIs. Vardaan has strong technical, analytical, interpersonal communication, and writing skills. He is experienced in AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Applications, Micro-service Architecture, Technology Roadmaps, Application Development, Team Leadership, Digital Web Experiences, E-Commerce platform, DevOps, Agile, Continuous Delivery, Hiring and retaining engineering talent, Distributed Systems, PCI Complaint software platform, HIPAA Compliant data platform, and AWS CloudFormation. Vardaan's education history includes a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from BIT, India, and a Diploma in Computer Software Engineering from the Center for Diploma in Advanced Computing. His tech stack includes AWS, Data Scientist, Databricks, Web, DevOps, product manager