Shishir Sharma

Shishir Sharma

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VP of Engineering, AI Platform and Cloud Applications
Los Altos, California, United States

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  • Egnyte
    VP of Engineering, AI Platform and Cloud Applications
    Egnyte
    Aug 2022 - Current (4 years 1 month)
    Leading Egnyte’s GenAI and vertical applications portfolio. Partner closely with product, GTM, and executive teams to bring AI-first products to market. Built global teams across the US, Europe, and India. Drove investment in GenAI talent and infrastructure, led large-scale org changes, and launched new technical foundations - like RAG pipelines, eval harnesses, and UI frameworks - that power Egnyte’s agentic workflows and copilots. Also led the rollout of AI code assist tools to streamline development and QA practices.
  • Egnyte
    Sr Director Of Engineering, Cloud platform and Infrastructure
    Egnyte
    Aug 2018 - Sep 2022 (4 years 2 months)
    Built and scaled the company’s global infrastructure team, including new hubs in Poland and India. Oversaw the evolution of Egnyte’s platform from hosted infrastructure to a modern multi-cloud stack. Partnered with cross-functional leaders to align investment decisions and drive reliability, efficiency, and performance across the platform. Led cost and traffic optimization efforts and helped scale operations as Egnyte grew to thousands of enterprise customers.
  • Egnyte
    Distinguished / Principal / Staff Engineer
    Egnyte
    Mar 2009 - Jul 2018 (9 years 5 months)
    First non-founding engineer at Egnyte. Led architecture and early implementation of key systems like the object store, permissions engine, and metadata services. Designed and shipped the company’s data security and governance platform, including early ML-based classification systems. Helped scale the collaboration platform to billions of objects and 10B+ daily requests.
  • DIRECTV
    Software Engineer - Intern
    DIRECTV
    Jun 2008 - Sep 2008 (4 months)
    Worked on lower embedded layer. - C, C++ - Linux, device drivers, IOCTLs
  • Headstrong
    Senior Software Engineer
    Headstrong
    Jun 2006 - Aug 2007 (1 year 3 months)
    Worked on Java, J2EE, Web Services and Morgan Stanley Specific Tech
  • Tata Consultancy Services
    Systems Engineer
    Tata Consultancy Services
    Aug 2004 - Jun 2006 (1 year 11 months)
    Worked as a software engineer on primarily java, j2ee and LDAP.
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  • UC Irvine
    MS, Computer Science
    UC Irvine
    Jan 2007 - Jan 2008 (1 year 1 month)
  • Indian Institute of Technology  Banaras Hindu University IITBHU Varanasi
    B. Tech, Electrical Engineering
    Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University IITBHU Varanasi
    Jul 2000 - May 2004 (3 years 11 months)
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