Vishal Vijayakumar
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Telugu Limited working proficiency
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French Elementary proficiency
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Francis Kurupacheril 🚀
I am writing to highly recommend Vishal, who I had the pleasure of managing. During his time with our organization, he consistently demonstrated exceptional product management skills and a strong work ethic. Vishal is a strategic thinker with a keen eye for detail. He is passionate about creating innovative products that deliver value to customers. His ability to analyze market trends, identify customer needs, and translate them into product features was impressive. He is a team player and a pleasure to work with. His professionalism and reliability make him a valuable asset to any organization.
Aishwarya R.
Vishal was my manager and had hired me into his team when I first joined Cisco Webex. During my time reporting to him, I was provided mentorship in the AI space, support within Cisco, and empathy through my projects especially during my first few months navigating a new role at a new company in the remote workplace. We worked on multiple projects together, and Vishal always brought his technical prowess, creativity, and energy into the product role. Most importantly, Vishal was able to encourage and instill a safe, trusting, and community-focused work culture into our team, which has led to me having found great friends in my team members as well as Vishal himself. I'm glad to have had the opportunity to work with him!
Francis Kurupacheril 🚀
I am writing to highly recommend Vishal, who I had the pleasure of managing. During his time with our organization, he consistently demonstrated exceptional product management skills and a strong work ethic. Vishal is a strategic thinker with a keen eye for detail. He is passionate about creating innovative products that deliver value to customers. His ability to analyze market trends, identify customer needs, and translate them into product features was impressive. He is a team player and a pleasure to work with. His professionalism and reliability make him a valuable asset to any organization.
Aishwarya R.
Vishal was my manager and had hired me into his team when I first joined Cisco Webex. During my time reporting to him, I was provided mentorship in the AI space, support within Cisco, and empathy through my projects especially during my first few months navigating a new role at a new company in the remote workplace. We worked on multiple projects together, and Vishal always brought his technical prowess, creativity, and energy into the product role. Most importantly, Vishal was able to encourage and instill a safe, trusting, and community-focused work culture into our team, which has led to me having found great friends in my team members as well as Vishal himself. I'm glad to have had the opportunity to work with him!
Francis Kurupacheril 🚀
I am writing to highly recommend Vishal, who I had the pleasure of managing. During his time with our organization, he consistently demonstrated exceptional product management skills and a strong work ethic. Vishal is a strategic thinker with a keen eye for detail. He is passionate about creating innovative products that deliver value to customers. His ability to analyze market trends, identify customer needs, and translate them into product features was impressive. He is a team player and a pleasure to work with. His professionalism and reliability make him a valuable asset to any organization.
Aishwarya R.
Vishal was my manager and had hired me into his team when I first joined Cisco Webex. During my time reporting to him, I was provided mentorship in the AI space, support within Cisco, and empathy through my projects especially during my first few months navigating a new role at a new company in the remote workplace. We worked on multiple projects together, and Vishal always brought his technical prowess, creativity, and energy into the product role. Most importantly, Vishal was able to encourage and instill a safe, trusting, and community-focused work culture into our team, which has led to me having found great friends in my team members as well as Vishal himself. I'm glad to have had the opportunity to work with him!
Francis Kurupacheril 🚀
I am writing to highly recommend Vishal, who I had the pleasure of managing. During his time with our organization, he consistently demonstrated exceptional product management skills and a strong work ethic. Vishal is a strategic thinker with a keen eye for detail. He is passionate about creating innovative products that deliver value to customers. His ability to analyze market trends, identify customer needs, and translate them into product features was impressive. He is a team player and a pleasure to work with. His professionalism and reliability make him a valuable asset to any organization.
Aishwarya R.
Vishal was my manager and had hired me into his team when I first joined Cisco Webex. During my time reporting to him, I was provided mentorship in the AI space, support within Cisco, and empathy through my projects especially during my first few months navigating a new role at a new company in the remote workplace. We worked on multiple projects together, and Vishal always brought his technical prowess, creativity, and energy into the product role. Most importantly, Vishal was able to encourage and instill a safe, trusting, and community-focused work culture into our team, which has led to me having found great friends in my team members as well as Vishal himself. I'm glad to have had the opportunity to work with him!
Credentials
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Stanford LEAD Business Program
Stanford UniversityFeb, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Software Engineering
University of California, Santa CruzNov, 2013- Oct, 2024 -
ASA 101, ASA 103, ASA 104, ASA 105, ASA 114, ASA 118
American Sailing Association -
Product Startegy
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Experience
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Sophonaut
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Product Lead
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Feb 2023 - Present
Sophonaut is on a mission to build the wellness layer of the world, starting with the power of self-awareness. Grounded in the Big Five Personality Traits—the company offers a proprietary personality test that provides individuals with comprehensive OCEAN scores and analyses. At the heart of Sophonaut's approach is the belief that misaligned actions based on one's personality lead to friction and failure. To remedy this, their first product focuses on matching individuals with compatible… Show more Sophonaut is on a mission to build the wellness layer of the world, starting with the power of self-awareness. Grounded in the Big Five Personality Traits—the company offers a proprietary personality test that provides individuals with comprehensive OCEAN scores and analyses. At the heart of Sophonaut's approach is the belief that misaligned actions based on one's personality lead to friction and failure. To remedy this, their first product focuses on matching individuals with compatible coaches using their personality test as a core component of the algorithm. Sophonaut aims to drive self-awareness, enabling people to act in self-aligned ways for a more fulfilling life. Show less Sophonaut is on a mission to build the wellness layer of the world, starting with the power of self-awareness. Grounded in the Big Five Personality Traits—the company offers a proprietary personality test that provides individuals with comprehensive OCEAN scores and analyses. At the heart of Sophonaut's approach is the belief that misaligned actions based on one's personality lead to friction and failure. To remedy this, their first product focuses on matching individuals with compatible… Show more Sophonaut is on a mission to build the wellness layer of the world, starting with the power of self-awareness. Grounded in the Big Five Personality Traits—the company offers a proprietary personality test that provides individuals with comprehensive OCEAN scores and analyses. At the heart of Sophonaut's approach is the belief that misaligned actions based on one's personality lead to friction and failure. To remedy this, their first product focuses on matching individuals with compatible coaches using their personality test as a core component of the algorithm. Sophonaut aims to drive self-awareness, enabling people to act in self-aligned ways for a more fulfilling life. Show less
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Cisco
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United States
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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Product Manager
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Nov 2020 - Mar 2023
Joined Cisco's Webex AI division via the acquisition of Mindmeld. Mindmeld was an artificial intelligence (AI) company that pioneered the development of a unique AI platform that enables customers to build intelligent and human-like conversational interfaces for any application or device. Within the Webex AI group, we drove productivity and collaboration between knowledge workers with product lines and features that leveraged machine learning techniques such as LLMs, NLP, computer vision… Show more Joined Cisco's Webex AI division via the acquisition of Mindmeld. Mindmeld was an artificial intelligence (AI) company that pioneered the development of a unique AI platform that enables customers to build intelligent and human-like conversational interfaces for any application or device. Within the Webex AI group, we drove productivity and collaboration between knowledge workers with product lines and features that leveraged machine learning techniques such as LLMs, NLP, computer vision, and recommendation systems.
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Product Manager
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May 2018 - Nov 2020
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Software Engineer IV
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Apr 2017 - May 2018
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Womply
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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DevOps Engineer
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Jun 2015 - Apr 2017
Womply's mission is to help local businesses thrive in a digital world. Founded in 2011, Womply is a local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools to make local commerce happen for over 500,000 American businesses and their customers. All of Womply’s products and services are powered by the Womply Commerce Graph, a proprietary data asset that offers the most complete view of local commerce. Womply's mission is to help local businesses thrive in a digital world. Founded in 2011, Womply is a local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools to make local commerce happen for over 500,000 American businesses and their customers. All of Womply’s products and services are powered by the Womply Commerce Graph, a proprietary data asset that offers the most complete view of local commerce.
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Clustrix, Inc.
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Systems Engineer
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Nov 2013 - Jun 2015
Clustrix DB was a scale-out RDBMS that supports workloads that involve scaling transactions and real-time analytics. The system is a drop-in replacement for MySQL, and is designed to overcome MySQL scalability issues with a minimum of disruption. It also has built-in fault-tolerance features for high availability within a cluster. It has parallel backup and parallel replication among clusters for disaster recovery. ClustrixDB was ultimately acquired by MariaDB. Clustrix DB was a scale-out RDBMS that supports workloads that involve scaling transactions and real-time analytics. The system is a drop-in replacement for MySQL, and is designed to overcome MySQL scalability issues with a minimum of disruption. It also has built-in fault-tolerance features for high availability within a cluster. It has parallel backup and parallel replication among clusters for disaster recovery. ClustrixDB was ultimately acquired by MariaDB.
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eGain Corporation
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Support Engineer
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Mar 2012 - Nov 2013
eGain Communications provides customer engagement solutions for businesses. Their main product is the eGain Suite, which is a cloud-based platform that includes a range of applications designed to help businesses improve their customer service and support. eGain Communications provides customer engagement solutions for businesses. Their main product is the eGain Suite, which is a cloud-based platform that includes a range of applications designed to help businesses improve their customer service and support.
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UC San Diego
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Help Desk Technician
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Oct 2010 - Dec 2011
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Education
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UC San Diego
Bachelor’s Degree
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