Kishore Nemalipuri

Engineering executive with 22+ years of experience building and scaling global software organizations across enterprise SaaS, telecommunications, consumer technology, and cloud platforms. Currently leading a 40+ person engineering organization at Salesforce, spanning engineering managers, technical leaders, and software engineers. Proven track record of defining engineering strategy, modernizing platforms, launching new product lines, improving delivery predictability, and driving AI-enabled productivity.

Led distributed teams across India, the US, and South Korea, delivering products and platforms that serve millions of customers and developers worldwide.

Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce India (2019-05 – Present)

• Defined and executed the engineering strategy and operating model for a 40+ person organization, aligning investment priorities, talent, architecture, and delivery execution with business objectives.
• Direct engineering planning, budgeting, and program governance while establishing strong architecture, design, and review standards to improve cost efficiency, quality, and overall engineering consistency.
• Champion technical innovation and long-term roadmap execution, enabling the successful launch of 3 new product lines.
• Drove a >30% improvement in process efficiency by introducing GenAI-assisted code reviews, test generation, and improving inner and outer cycles of ADLC.
• Owned the developer and designer tooling ecosystem, including developer portals and design tools, improving the experience of internal teams and external developers.
• Led SLDS2 adoption initiatives, including modern styling, dark mode, RTL support, and migration paths for Salesforce customers.
• Provide the best customer/developer experience and building the sites like developer.salesforce.com & help.salesforce.com.
• Led AI enabled proactive monitoring and intelligent-alerting initiatives for infrastructure supporting multi-tenant architectures.

Staff Engineer at Samsung Mobile R&D, HQ (2013-05 – 2019-04)

• Led architecture and development of cloud services, APIs, and middleware supporting Samsung's mobile, TV, and web ecosystems. Influenced cross-functional architecture decisions across product, mobile, cloud, and platform teams in a global RD environment.
• Delivered Samsung Find My Mobile, providing secure remote device management capabilities including tracking, locking, wiping, and guardian controls.
• Architected AWS-based cloud-native services using compute, storage, messaging, and notification integrations to support millions of users.

Engineering Manager at Verizon India (2005-10 – 2013-05)

• Led a 22-person engineering organization spanning development, quality, release engineering, and production support, with end-to-end ownership of release planning, execution governance, incident management, and cross-functional delivery coordination.

Software Engineer at Infosys PVT. LTD. (2004-08 – 2005-10)

• Built Java/J2EE network-reliability and fault-isolation modules using a three-tier architecture.

M. Tech – IIT Delhi (2002-06 – 2004-06)

B. Tech – Andhra University (1998-06 – 2002-06)

GenAI AI/ML – IIIT Hyderabad (2021)