# Vachan W.

> Founding Engineer at Moveworks

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vachan

Platform engineer. Scaling distributed systems and developer infrastructure.

Developer Productivity in the AI landscape. 

Conversation Engine and Platform Services
Machine Learning Infrastructure & AI Ops
Test framework and DevOps Infra
Developer Tooling, API Integrations and upkeep
Platform integrations (Bot frameworks, Identity and ITSM platforms)
Agentic AI Systems
Database and ETL Engines

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer & Architect - Platform @ ServiceNow
Jan 2020 – Present

### Founding Engineer (Platforms, Infrastructure and Test) @ Moveworks
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View
(Acquired by ServiceNow)

Hired as employee #1, worked on a wide range of initiatives in the platform, infrastructure and
dev ops areas. 

* Built foundations for the chat conversation platform, allowing for open conversation with any vendor API’s (Microsoft Bot Framework, Slack, Google Hangout); developed internal services that integrated with ITSM provider APIs (ServiceNow, Jira).

* Built  integrations and data pipeline flows. Implemented several early versions of platform capability that included integration with AWS Dynamo DB for conversation state persistence and integrated AWS Key Management Service for service layer security and docker services.

* Spearheaded early projects for the build, release, and CI/CD pipeline through using various tools and technologies including ansible, terraform, jenkins, and AWS to manage dev and production AWS assets.

### Director of Engineering  - Platform Tools, Test and DevOps Infrastructure @ Kahuna
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto

### Platform Infrastucture and DevOps at ClearStory Data @ ClearStory Data
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto

### Engineering Manager - Developer Productivity, Tools, Test and Releases @ Vendavo
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, California

### Founding Engineer - Product Engineering @ Aztecsoft
Jan 1997 – Jan 2008
Microsoft SQL Server Group
- Storage engine, logging and recovery
- Database allocation maps editor
- Built the SQL Server perfmon <-> Windows interface
- Built the MS SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer

Pervasive SQL Server version 9.0 – core database engine development
Distributed ETL
Database change data capture


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vachanw

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Source: https://flows.cv/vachan
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vachan/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-12