Shams Chauthani

Chief Technology Officer

Tempo Software

Dec 2025 - Current (9 months)

Chief Technology Officer

Otelier

May 2023 - Dec 2025 (2 years 8 months)

Lead a phenomenal R&D team that is revolutionizing the use of data to drive customer value in the hospitality industry.

CTO and SVP Engineering

Zilliant

Apr 2019 - May 2023 (4 years 2 months)

As a CTO I helped Zilliant transform from a single product enterprise software company to a true cloud native SaaS solution with 6+ products addressing the full span of Price and Revenue Management and Optimization market. This resulted in more than doubling the ASV growth rate of the company and 3x increase in revenue over 5 years and led to a sale of the company to Madison Dearborn Partners (PE Firm).

Senior Vice President Engineering

Zilliant

Mar 2016 - May 2023 (7 years 3 months)

Zilliant leverages the vast amount of data companies have about their customers to produce actionable insights that help those companies maximize their sales opportunities while helping their customers. I led the engineering organization through a transformation process. This included: * Establishing consistent processes across the organization and driving the disciplined implementation to ensure consistent and efficient software delivery * Engendering a culture of innovation and customer focus * Defining a clear technical vision for the Zilliant platform transformation and creating a path to incremental progress towards that goal This allowed us to successfully scale the engineering team from 30 to 140 engineers while efficiently buildi

Vice President Engineering

NewComLink

Apr 2014 - Mar 2016 (2 years)

Build and Lead a world class engineering organization that created an innovative financial platform to disrupt the consumer credit industry. In order to accomplish this I: * Built a scalable engineering organization leveraging onshore and offshore resources * Transitioned from a project based to platform based product strategy across the enterprise * Established a culture of Continuous improvement leveraging industry best practices In addition to leading a growing engineering organization I took on additional responsibilities like: * Led corporate strategic initiative to establish a full spectrum lending solution * Took on the role of Product Architect to set the product strategy and delivery roadmap Vize was bought by Mastercard.

Senior Director Engineering - Online Products and Platform

SolarWinds

Sep 2011 - Apr 2014 (2 years 8 months)

While reporting to the CIO I built from ground up and Directed the Online products and platform engineering group. This group consists of two distinct teams the Web team and the Business Applications team. The Web team is responsible for all SolarWinds online properties including the marketing sites, portals, eCommerce, Live Product Demos, Community network, and SaaS products. Business Applications team builds and manages all SolarWinds backend business systems including ERP/CRM solution, Business Analytics Data Warehouse, and Enterprise Message Bus for system integrations. Some of my accomplishments in this role included: • Built from ground up team of 70+ engineers, 3 managers, and 1 Director • Extended the US engineering operations t

Director of Product Development

SolarWinds

Sep 2010 - Sep 2011 (1 year 1 month)

Part of the senior management core team responsible for SolarWinds' entry into the Systems Management space. The products delivered in this space now account for significant portion of SolarWinds license revenue. As part of this team my responsibilities included: * Building a Development and QA team to deliver industry leading Application, Virtualization, and Systems management products. * Assisting in defining the product roadmap and go to market strategy * Providing updates to and gathering feedback from executive team about the Systems Management business.

Development Manager

SolarWinds

Jan 2008 - Sep 2010 (2 years 9 months)

Managed networking product development teams responsible for delivering industry leading Network Configuration Management solution.

Software Engineering Manager

BROCADE

Jan 2007 - Jan 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Managing multiple products with development and QA teams spread between Houston and Pune, India.

Principal Project Manager

Full Armor Corporation

Nov 2006 - Apr 2007 (6 months)

Responsible for managing Development, Quality Engineering, and Documentation resources to deliver strategic products such as Enterprise Policy Manager.

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Principal/Founder

eLogix Solutions

Aug 2004 - Jul 2019 (15 years)

eLogix Solutions provides software development services to clients in various industries ranging from Facilities Management to Windows Security Management. Solutions developed by eLogix are deployed at several Fortune 1000 companies. As a Founder/Principal of eLogix my role is to provide strategic direction for the company.

Development Manager

NetIQ

Feb 1999 - Nov 2006 (7 years 10 months)

Development Manager for the Administration and Migration Products at NetIQ. As a Dev Manager I was responsible for managing 20+ engineers across multiple geographical locations including US (3 sites), Bolivia, and India developing products that generated in excess of $20M in revenue yearly.

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