Vijaay Doraiswamy

Vijaay Doraiswamy is a customer-focused software engineering and technology leader with over 15 years of experience in delivering innovative products in enterprise and consumer sectors, including startups.

He specializes in designing, building, and operating distributed software systems at scale, with a proven track record in developing and running peta-byte scale Big Data and IoT platforms monitoring over 200 data centers globally.

Vijaay demonstrates exceptional leadership in establishing and nurturing high-performance global teams and excels in setting engineering direction, defining roadmaps, and leading international teams strategically.

As a hands-on leader, Vijaay contributes across all stages of the product/platform lifecycle, from conception to operation on a worldwide scale, while successfully implementing and scaling Agile processes in geographically dispersed teams.

He is metrics-driven, prioritizing objectives and results, and is passionate about fostering innovation, adopting new technologies to solve customer challenges, and learning industry trends.

Vijaay Doraiswamy was part of the APIGEE Technical Advisory Board, offering technical insights and direction for the product and technology strategy, which is now owned by Google.

His favorite quote is 'Quality is an Attitude.' Vijaay's core skills span product and platform development, distributed software systems, architecture, APIs, microservices, IoT, Big Data, SaaS, real-time apps, event streaming, observability, monitoring, platform scaling, AI/ML, cloud-native architecture, DevOps, and continuous delivery.

His expertise also includes engineering strategy and execution, global team building, strategic planning, roadmap definition, Agile methodologies, process scaling, and business process automation.

Throughout his career, Vijaay has leveraged key technologies and platforms such as Spring, Play, Akka, Node.js, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, Elastic Search, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB, Oracle DB, Storm, Spark, AWS, GCP, React, Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio.

He pursued a Master's degree in Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Madras.

Vijaay Doraiswamy has held various leadership positions, including VP of Engineering at Zibo, Senior Director and Director of Software Engineering at Equinix, Senior Engineering Manager, Engineering Manager, Senior Software Architect at Equinix, Lead Software Engineer at VeriSign, Team Lead & Software Engineer at Apollo Group, Software Engineer at the State of Nevada, and Research/Teaching/Graduate Assistant at Southern Illinois University.