Vikas Gupta

Chairperson of the Board

2022 - Current

Founder & CEO

2012 - 2022

Wonder Workshop’s mission is to spark creativity among kids of all ages, inspiring lifelong learning. Wonder Workshop’s Class Connect is the world’s leading educational platform for K-5 that makes learning and teaching coding literacy engaging, easy, and affordable. Class Connect gives teachers a software solution to implement coding literacy with 1-1 student access, and a seamless integration with Dash robots. Class Connect’s standards-aligned learning content, teacher training, and remote learning capabilities make district wide implementation of coding literacy affordable and efficient. Wonder Workshop’s platform is used by students to master 21st century skills, such as critical thinking and Computer Science, in more than 4,000 school districts. Class Connect gives teachers the ability to support students learning in school and from home. makewonder.com.com @makewonder

Head of Consumer Payments

2010 - 2012

Founder & CEO

2006 - 2010

Jambool operates Social Gold -- the leading online virtual goods monetization platform. I founded Jambool in 2006, and over 3+ years have led the company through several product iteractions, and two rounds of venture funding and the eventual acquisition by Google. We've hired some of the best engineers, sales and marketing teams from Amazon.com, Yahoo! and Electronic Arts. At Social Gold, over the years I've spent time on all fronts inluding sales, marketing, engineering, though product has been a particular area I've directly influenced. The biggest achievement for me has been in hiring some of the best talent to create the best product and innovate in an extremely competitive space. In the early iterations of the company, we built an independent site for social collaboration and also created very successful social applications -- used by 20M+ users from around the world.

Senior Manager

2004 - 2006

Along with a handful of engineers and a couple of other leaders, started the Amazon India development center. Built and led the engineering organization. I led the product development and hiring for Amazon India, growing the product team to over 40 engineers, and the office employee strength to 100 people. I spoke at Linux Bangalore 2004, and spoke at several college campuses during recruiting events, including the IITs and ISB.

Software Development Manager

2003 - 2004

Led the innovation, design and development for Amazon Flexible Payments Web Service(released in 2006). Worked directly with the CEO, Jeff Bezos, on the product design and strategy. Hired the team and led the recruiting across several groups. Led the product transition to the new India office. Filed several patents for the Flexible payments web service. Multiple patents awarded: * 7,584,152 Automatic authorization of programmatic transactions * 7,502,760 Providing payments automatically in accordance with predefined instructions * 7,383,231 Performing automatically authorized programmatic transactions * 7,324,976/8,150,769/8,150,768 Automatic authorization of programmatic transactions * 7,729,994 Performing automatically authorized programmatic transactions * 7,742,994 Providing payments automatically in accordance with predefined instructions * 8,190,588 Providing a distributed transaction information storage service

Software Development Manager

2001 - 2003

I grew and led a team of stellar engineers to manage the payments platform at Amazon.com. Introduced several key product innovations to further the platform strategy at Amazon, including gift certificates redesign, third party gift card and value card integrations, and international payments.

Software Development Engineer

1999 - 2001

Redesigned the core Payments processing platform for Amazon and launched one of the first service architectures in the company. The platform scaled to process every single transation for Amazon.com worldwide. It was launched in 2000, and is still in operation, as of March 2006.

Software Engineer

1998 - 1999

Worked on multicast based data transfer and control protocols for disseminating content over satellite networks.