Vishal Sankhla

Founder & CEO

2023 - Current

VP of Product

2021 - 2022

Director of Engineering

2019 - 2021

Head of Product, Core Platform

2017 - 2019

I lead the Core Platform product team at Uber. Our team manage all the large-scale platforms and online services including Uber's order processing platform, vehicles platform and Uber's global customer data across all lines of businesses including Ride-sharing, Eats, Freight, Bikes/Scooters, Elevate and more. The services we built serve more than half-a-million queries/sec and are engineered to have 99.99% availability, low-latency and reliable data consistency with strict SLAs. Our goal was to make Uber plug and play and provide essential core services to launch new features or new businesses.

VP of Product & Engineering

2015 - 2017

Cision is the leading provider of software, services, and tools for media, public relations and marketing professionals. Cision is headquartered in Chicago and employs over 3,000 people across 20 countries. In 2014 Cision and Vocus were merged to build the leading cloud-based PR, Social Media and content marketing platform. Cision also acquired Visible Technologies, Gorkana Group in 2014, Viralheat in 2015 and PR Newswire in 2016. I lead a talented team of Engineers working on the the Cision Social Edition (previously Viralheat) and managing social media management, publishing, analytics for core Cision product. Our team's mission is to build new or optimize existing social related products and services that allow PR professionals to grow their businesses effectively through social media.

Co-founder & CTO

2011 - 2015

Viralheat provides a comprehensive social media management platform that offers monitoring, publishing, analytics, and reporting in a single intuitive interface. With patent-approved sentiment technology, Viralheat is leading the way in predictive social analytics to drive customer identification and sales conversion. Viralheat is unique because it is: * Intuitive to Use: Viralheat's interface is incredibly easy to use and understand. * Comprehensive: Monitoring, publishing, analytics and reporting are all included. Viralheat acts as strategic business partner by integrating with enterprise software such as Salesforce, SugarCRM, Desk.com, Zendesk and more. * Data Driven: A data engine at its core, Viralheat identifies prospect customers through patented human intent and sentiment analysis. Viralheat was acquired by Cision in March 2015. Cision is the leading provider of software, services, and tools for media, public relations and marketing professionals. Cision is headquartered in Chicago and employs almost 2,000 people across nine countries. In 2014 Cision and Vocus were merged to build the leading cloud-based PR platform.

Lead Software Engineer

2007 - 2009

Senior Software Engineer

2004 - 2007