Vivek Joshi
Chicago
Summary
- Engineering leader with 16+ years of experience building and scaling platform, data, and AI driven systems in eCommerce and data intensive environments.
- Currently leading multi-domain engineering across Assortment Management (PIM) at Zoro, delivering platforms that enhance product discovery, improve merchandising efficiency, and drive revenue growth.
- Recognized for scaling global engineering organizations, leading cloud modernization (AWS/GCP), and delivering LLM powered, MCP integrated AI solutions that drive measurable business value.
- Trusted to define long-term strategy, align executive stakeholders, and cultivate high-performing engineering cultures.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Grainger - Zoro
Chicago, IL
10.2021 - Current
- Lead engineering strategy and execution across Assortment, Search and Product Experience platforms supporting millions of SKUs and high volume eCommerce traffic.
- Manage and scale a distributed org of 20+ engineers (including managers, senior ICs & contractors). Own multi year platform roadmap and cross functional execution, improving delivery velocity by ~30% and system reliability (SLA) to 99%+.
- Drove adoption of AI/ML across platforms, enabling automated workflows that reduced manual merchandising effort by 40%.
Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Grainger - Zoro
Chicago, IL
09.2019 - 09.2021
- Led transformation of enterprise data platform, migrating from legacy systems to scalable GCP ecosystem (BigQuery, Airflow, Pub/Sub, Looker).
- Managed global engineering team, delivering scalable data infrastructure supporting analytics and business intelligence.
- Improved data processing performance by 40% and enabled near real time analytics across business domains.
- Established data governance, reliability, and cloud standards to support enterprise scale operations.
Senior Data Engineer
Grainger - Zoro
Chicago, IL
02.2018 - 09.2019
- Designed and built enterprise data platform enabling data products across 10+ business domains.
- Developed 90+ data pipelines using Airflow and BigQuery, reduced processing time by 60%.
- Improved system reliability and reduced incident resolution time by 35%.
- Enabled scalable, secure, and high performance data operations for analytics and reporting.
Technical Manager
BNY Mellon
Pittsburgh, PA
09.2017 - 02.2018
- Led development of enterprise data platform for BNY Mellon, processing financial data across multiple business units; built scalable ETL pipelines and optimized data flows, improving reporting reliability and reducing processing time by 25%+.
Engineering Consultant
Comcast
Denver, CO
10.2016 - 09.2017
- Defined architecture and strategy for enterprise analytics platform on AWS, delivering scalable data products that enabled advanced analytics, forecasting, and data driven decision making; built and led engineering team to ensure high reliability and performance.
Senior Software Engineer
Purch
Salt Lake City, UT
09.2013 - 09.2016
Senior Engineering Consultant
Google
Salt Lake City, UT
03.2012 - 09.2013
Data Management Consultant
Amazon
Seattle, WA
02.2011 - 03.2012
Data Engineer
Vox Mobile
Independence, OH
03.2010 - 01.2011
Education
Master of Science - Computer & Information Science
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH01-2010
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
Indore Institute of Technology
Indore, India01-2007
Skills
- Organization Scaling
- Strategic Planning
- Talent Development
- Stakeholder Alignment
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Microservices & Distributed Systems
- Cloud Native Engineering
- Scalable System Design
- Platform Architecture
- Enterprise Data Architecture
- Data Engineering
- AI/ML Platform Enablement
- Data Governance & Quality
- Data Security & Compliance
- Real-Time Processing
- Agile Delivery
- DevOps & CI/CD
- Test Automation
- Software Lifecycle Management
- Operational Excellence
- Apache Kafka / Airflow
- Snowflake / BigQuery
- Python / Java / SQL
- Terraform
- Jenkins / GitHub
- Product Roadmap Ownership
- Cross-Functional Execution
- Process Optimization
- Standards & Best Practices
- Change Management
Leadership & Strategy
Platform & Architecture
Data, AI & Analytics
Engineering Execution
Core Technologies
Product & Transformation
Certification
- Strategic AI for Senior Leaders, Udemy (2026)
- Google Cloud Platform, Google (2024)
- Leadership Essentials, Grainger (2021)
- Global Emerging Leader, Grainger (2019)
- AWS Cloud Practitioner, Amazon (2018)
Timeline
Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Grainger - Zoro
10.2021 - Current
Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Grainger - Zoro
09.2019 - 09.2021
Senior Data Engineer
Grainger - Zoro
02.2018 - 09.2019
Technical Manager
BNY Mellon
09.2017 - 02.2018
Engineering Consultant
Comcast
10.2016 - 09.2017
Senior Software Engineer
Purch
09.2013 - 09.2016
Senior Engineering Consultant
Google
03.2012 - 09.2013
Data Management Consultant
Amazon
02.2011 - 03.2012
Data Engineer
Vox Mobile
03.2010 - 01.2011
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
Indore Institute of Technology
Master of Science - Computer & Information Science
Cleveland State University
ACHIEVEMENT
Grainger Long Term Incentive Award 2021 & 2023,
Purch Innovation Excellence Award 2015,
GATE: Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering 2007,
All India Rank: 193