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10 VPs of engineering
These ten VPs of engineering hold or have held a VP of Engineering or Vice President of Engineering title, in some cases for a named platform or cloud group. Readers can learn how engineering leaders scale teams, run platforms and infrastructure, and tie engineering work to product and business goals.
Professionals to explore
01—10Ashi Sareen
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · RUCKUS Networks
VP of Engineering at RUCKUS Networks since 2024; the profile describes leading the Ruckus One product and hands-on experience in full-stack enterprise software delivery. Former roles include Director of Software Engineering at LinkedIn (2018–2024), Sr. Director, Software Engineering, Oracle Cloud at Oracle (2015–2018) and Director, Software Development - XenMobile at Citrix (2012–2015).
Cheryl Tan
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering · Meta Platforms Ltd
Former Vice President of Engineering at Meta Platforms Ltd (2022–2024), where the profile says she led a 150-person engineering organization across distributed teams, overseeing development and deployment of scalable cloud-based platforms using AWS and Kubernetes. She was Director of Software Engineering at Meta Platforms Ltd (2018–2022) and Engineering Manager at Google (2013–2017).
Chris Hodder
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · Opus 2
Former VP of Engineering at Opus 2 (2023–2026). The profile says he has scaled teams from 2 to 55 people, restructured departments for market expansion, built technical functions from scratch and secured £2m in R&D funding. Other roles include Head of Technology at Parsley Box (2021–2023) and Engineering Manager at Turnkey IPS since 2026.
Gaurav Garg
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering · Databricks
Vice President of Engineering at Databricks since 2024, a company the profile describes as offering a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. He was Head Of Engineering at CoinTracker (2021–2024), Vice President Of Engineering at Uber (2018–2021) and Vice President Of Engineering at Google (2006–2018).
Kavita Kanetkar
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering, Core AI Platform · Microsoft
Vice President of Engineering, Core AI Platform at Microsoft since 2023. She was Head of Economy Engineering at Roblox (2020–2022), Director of Engineering, Ads Infrastructure Twitter at Twitter (2016–2020) and Engineering Leader at Redfin (2013–2016); the profile describes managing senior managers and organizations, building teams from the ground up and leading global teams.
Mani Sundaram
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · GitLab
VP of Engineering at GitLab since April 2026. He was CTO (2025–2026) and Senior Vice President of Engineering (2024) at Viridium.AI, where the profile says he led development of an agentic AI platform, and Director of Engineering, Amazon Web Services at Amazon (2014–2024).
Mike Curtis
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering Cloud · Vercel
VP of Engineering Cloud at Vercel since 2024, where the profile says he oversees Vercel's cloud, including edge networking, compute, CI/CD, observability, platform engineering and AI SDKs and infrastructure. At Google he was Senior Director, Core Infrastructure (2016–2024), Principal Software Engineer, Site Reliability, Google (2010–2016) and Software Engineering Tech Lead, Site Reliability, Gmail (2005–2010).
Peter Ngai
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering · SnapLogic
Vice President of Engineering at SnapLogic since November 2025, where the profile says he leads architecture, QA, IT and security; he was Principal Architect at SnapLogic (2023–2025). Former roles include Head of Architecture and Technology Operations at GoSite (2021–2023) and Vice President of Architecture & Engineering at Ontrak Health (2020–2021).
Rakesh Raghavan
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering · 6sense
Vice President of Engineering at 6sense since 2025 and former Vice President of Engineering at Twilio (2021–2023). The profile also lists Board Advisor Head of Engineering Fractional CTO at Various StartUps (2023–2025), Senior Director of Engineering at SnapLogic (2016–2021) and Director of Engineering at Glassdoor (2014–2016).
Rod Garcia
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering, Platform and Salesforce Ecosystem · Slack
VP of Engineering, Platform and Salesforce Ecosystem at Slack since 2024, where the profile says he leads development of Slack's no-code and low-code automation platform and leads teams that include Platform and Developer Experience. His former Slack roles include VP of Engineering, Platform (2022–2024), Senior Director Of Engineering, Platform (2021–2022) and Director Of Engineering, Platform (2021).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's company stage and team size to yours, since scaling a small engineering team differs from running a large platform organization. Then look for a background in the kind of system you are building, such as cloud infrastructure, AI platforms or enterprise software.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide when to add engineering managers and reorganize teams as headcount grows?
- 02What do you measure to know whether an engineering organization is delivering well?
- 03How do you balance platform and infrastructure investment against shipping product features?
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