About

Vipul Wadhawan is a performance-driven engineering leader, technologist, and strategist with over 18 years of experience in impacting organizational profitability through effective technology leadership. He has a rich and extensive experience in leading large engineering teams, formulating company strategy, and identifying new business opportunities. Vipul is an expert in architecture, design, development, and managing multi-threaded, real-time, distributed, scalable, resilient, high-performance, and highly available N-tier web applications. He has a proven track record of developing enterprise-class B2B products with sub-second response processing millions of transactions per day. Vipul has experience in owning product roadmap and backlog along with product management team and has worked with data science and machine learning teams. He has developed reporting services using big data frameworks like Scala, Spark, Kafka, and NoSQL. Vipul has deployed SaaS products on cloud (private/AWS) using DevOps model for CI/CD. He has designed and developed APIs, messaging, and micro-services for cloud to achieve service-oriented architecture. He has planned and executed strategies for efficient product design and engineering, innovation, and faster go-live with enhanced customer experience and time-to-value. As a leader, Vipul has managed productive cross-functional large teams and has been involved in hiring, training, mentoring, coaching, goal setting, performing appraisals, career development, team building, delegation, conflict resolution, vendor management, etc. He has managed and directed people at multiple levels ranging from managers, architects, SMEs, POs, developers, and QA engineers. Vipul optimizes performance by effective resource management with a focus on team building. He has experience in various SDLC methodologies such as iterative, waterfall, and agile methods - SCRUM, SAFe. Vipul leads, evangelizes, and manages the "Culture of Engineering Excellence," blameless root cause analysis, fail early, fail fast, effective logging and monitoring, analytics, security, and enhancing operational efficiency with a focus on code ownership and automation. Vipul is currently working as Director Software Engineering at Nice and has previously worked as Co-Founder and CTO at Moiroi Software and Director Engineering at Jifflenow. He has an Executive Program in Leadership and Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Master's degree in Computer Applications from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. Vipul is proficient in