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Vivek Joshi

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, OH
01-2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication

Indore Institute of Technology
Indore, India
01-2007

Skills

    Leadership & Strategy

  • Organization Scaling
  • Strategic Planning
  • Talent Development
  • Stakeholder Alignment
  • Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Platform & Architecture

  • Microservices & Distributed Systems
  • Cloud Native Engineering
  • Scalable System Design
  • Platform Architecture
  • Enterprise Data Architecture
  • Data, AI & Analytics

  • Data Engineering
  • AI/ML Platform Enablement
  • Data Governance & Quality
  • Data Security & Compliance
  • Real-Time Processing
  • Engineering Execution

  • Agile Delivery
  • DevOps & CI/CD
  • Test Automation
  • Software Lifecycle Management
  • Operational Excellence
  • Core Technologies

  • Apache Kafka / Airflow
  • Snowflake / BigQuery
  • Python / Java / SQL
  • Terraform
  • Jenkins / GitHub
  • Product & Transformation

  • Product Roadmap Ownership
  • Cross-Functional Execution
  • Process Optimization
  • Standards & Best Practices
  • Change Management

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

Vivek Joshi