Vishwas Raman

Vice President of Engineering

Astronomer

Apr 2024 - Current (2 years 5 months)

Senior Director of Engineering

Astronomer

Jan 2020 - Current (6 years 8 months)

Astronomer is the orchestration platform for the modern data stack. Built on Kubernetes, Astronomer makes it easy to run, monitor, and scale Apache Airflow clusters in our cloud or yours. Astronomer Cloud: Fully hosted Apache Airflow, no DevOps required. Astronomer Enterprise: Run our entire Airflow stack in your cloud.

Director Of Engineering

Zume Inc

Nov 2018 - Jan 2020 (1 year 3 months)

Director of Engineering, Identity

Oath

Jun 2017 - May 2018 (1 year)

‣ Yahoo Bar - managed the team that delivered a new unified header across all Yahoo products. This new header replaces an older one that had been customized a 100 different ways and was becoming unmanageable. This header keeps the majority of the experience consistent across all Yahoo products but at the same time provides a module development environment for teams that want the customization to build and own their product experiences in their own header modules. This version of the header provides full accessibility and localization support and is also significantly lighter weight (50 KB) compared to its predecessor (700KB). ‣ Customer Care Account Management Tool After Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo and then combining AOL, Yahoo and othe

Director of Engineering, Membership

Yahoo

Jun 2014 - May 2017 (3 years)

Led several strong functional teams of high-performing engineers to deliver a number of critical functionalities of the Yahoo Identity platform. I was responsible for every aspect of the software life cycle from product and engineering vision, technical architecture, user experience design, implementation, testing and service engineering. A few of the needle mover products are listed below: ‣ Yahoo Account Key (Y.A.K) An audacious industry first product that helps Yahoo users to no longer have to remember their passwords. YAK uses push notifications sent to Yahoo mobile applications that users can approve on their device in order to sign in to their account. More than 50M Yahoo users have adopted this sign-in method, we are acquiring new u

Engineering Manager, Yahoo Smart TV

Yahoo

Jun 2011 - Jun 2014 (3 years 1 month)

Led a cross-functional team across Bay area, LA and Israel to deliver: ‣ Smart Guide Recommendation Engine, an app on the Yahoo Smart TV platform, that provides personal recommendations for what to watch, combining most popular content sources and adapts passively to the user's viewing history. ‣ Live Stats, a feature within the sports app on the Smart TV platform, which displayed stats relevant to the situation within the MLB or NFL game that user is watching on the TV. ‣ Broadcast Interactivity Services, services provided to our partners (advertisers and broadcasters) so they could enhance their specific Ads and shows with additional content.

Engineering Manager, Membership

Yahoo

Apr 2010 - Jun 2011 (1 year 3 months)

Led a team of engineers that were responsible for building various aspects of Membership such as Registration, Account Data and Life Cycle Management and Account Recovery.

Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo Membership

Yahoo

Oct 2007 - Mar 2010 (2 years 6 months)

Responsible for the architecture and implementation of some key platforms: - Account State Changer (ASC) - a critical central service that manages the life cycle of Yahoo accounts and provides notifications of these state changes to rest of Yahoo to manage their downstream user data - Supernova platform - Account Management APIs that cover account lifecycle changes including creation, deletion, suspension, termination and reactivation and managing account attributes. Helped onboard several partners such as Telecom New Zealand and Verizon into this platform. Mentored a few interns and junior engineers in this role.

Software Engineer, Yahoo Membership

Yahoo

Aug 2004 - Oct 2007 (3 years 3 months)

Designed, authored and maintained several core C++ libraries that were used throughout the company to manage account life cycle and account partner affiliations.

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Software Engineer

Eternal Systems

Dec 2001 - Aug 2004 (2 years 9 months)

- Transparent TCP Connection Failover – Contributed to the development of a system that enables failover of a TCP server endpoint in a manner that is transparent to the clients and the server applications. This could be used to render any TCP based service highly available/fault tolerant. - In a team of 2, designed and developed a transparent fault tolerance framework for Enterprise Java Beans and J2EE services, funded by NIST. Integrated this technology into the JBoss J2EE application server. - Developed a transparent file replication system where file system calls like open(), read(), write() were intercepted/overloaded and transferred to a multi-threaded backup server for replication.

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Software Engineer

Cellmania Inc

Jul 2000 - Nov 2001 (1 year 5 months)

Part of a team that built mEnterprise, an enterprise software product that can be used for building high performance applications (web, wap, pda) that combine the notions of location, time, rules and session to deliver highly personalized services. Developed components in Java, C++, XML

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