# Vivek Khandelwal > Software Product & Engineering Leadership @ Startups Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vivekkhandelwal Visionary technology leader with extensive experience driving innovation, scaling product and engineering teams, and delivering impactful healthcare, consumer & enterprise solutions. Expertise in building scalable systems, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and leading high-performing global teams to deliver world-class products. Passionate about leveraging technology to improve lives and enhance user experiences. ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer @ Athelas Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States Commure (backed by Sequoia, YC, General Catalyst) provides an integrated platform for healthcare operations. Currently leading software product efforts to scale the adoption and success of the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) and Gen AI Enabled Clinical Documentation (Scribe) products. ### Vice President, Product @ Locix (acquired by a privately held company) Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Locix (backed by UTEC, ID Ventures) provided IoT cloud services for spatial data analytics to improve productivity and safety in industrial spaces like warehouses and factories. Led new product initiatives - cloud services for indoor location (positioning) services and IoT enabled fleet tracking. ### Vice President, Product Strategy @ Secondmind Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Secondmind.ai, a Cambridge UK company (backed by Tencent, Amadeus, Cambridge Innovation Capital) offers an AI/ML engine for autonomous decision making. As an early stage member of the team, defined product strategy to expand Secondmind’s AI/ML applications into new markets, such as logistic. Assumed additional responsibility of leading the marketing effort. ### Vice President, Product Engineering @ Delta ID Inc. (acquired by Fingerprint Cards AB.) Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Newark, CA Delta ID (backed by Intel Capital, Samsung Ventures) pioneered the world's first iris enabled authentication technology for mobile devices. Established and led product functions for mobile iris biometric authentication system which was launched on Samsung, Microsoft, Fujitsu mobile devices. Spearheaded the development and qualification of a new mobile+cloud iris biometric product compatible with India's national biometric system (Aadhaar). ### Co-Founder, Chief Product & Technology Officer @ Crowdmull.com Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area Crowdmull offered a chat-based interface to help consumers make informed purchase decisions by tapping into opinions from trusted sources within their social networks, as well as from aggregated product reviews. As a co-founder, I conceived, and developed the product, launched it on Apple’s App Store. ### Vice President, Product & Partner Management (US) @ Chleon Automotive Ltd. Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, CA, USA Chleon was one of the world's first company to provide an Android based connected car platform. Successfully on-boarded 25+ app providers. Spearheaded the development and customer on-boarding of a market leading automobile tracking service (OBD dongle connected to cloud service) aimed at enhancing safety and security. ### Vice President, Product @ Verayo, Inc. Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 Verayo (backed by Khosla Ventures) offered authentication & security solutions using an innovative Silicon “DNA” technology developed at MIT. Authored the business plan, established, and ran all product and marketing functions. Launched the first product, secured initial customers leading to revenue generation. ### Director, RFID Solutions @ BEA Systems Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 BEA (now part of Oracle Corp) was the leader in enterprise middleware software with $1.5+ billion in revenue. Led solutions led go-to-market initiatives for RFID industry solutions. Cross functional role requiring collaboration with product, marketing and sales teams. Provided key strategy and tools for sales successes. ### Principal @ Sun Microsystems Inc. Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 Led a cross-functional team spanning product, marketing, professional services, partner management and sales to create industry verticals specific RFID solution architectures. Provided sales teams with tools to target Wal*Mart Mandate compliance, drug authentication, asset tracking use cases. Delivered RFID competitive and market analysis to help sales identify and position key industry players. Evangelized Sun RFID products and solutions at customer briefing centers. Effectively drove industry focused press and analyst outreach. ### Sr. Product Manager @ Sun Microsystems Inc. Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 Led product management and product marketing for the core Java (J2SE) platform and J2EE integration technologies (Connectors, JMS, JDBC). Authored the Product Requirements Document (PRD) for Java 5.0 (first major update to Jave after 1.0), got budget approvals for the product plan, worked with a cross-functional team thru’ the product life cycle. Evangelized Sun’s Java technologies at customer briefing centers. ### Member of Technical Staff @ Sun Microsystems Inc. Jan 1996 – Jan 2002 • Led the engineering design and development of Solaris system software for various Sun products – UltraSPARC 3i workstations and servers, SunRay network computer, 3D Graphics Accelerators • Awarded patent (# 6748508) - video buffering and distribution scheme for the SunRay network computers. • Led the development of video conferencing capabilities on SunRay network computers (SunForum3.2) • Developed device driver software for Sun’s UltraSPARC 3i workstations, Elite3D graphics accelerator • Developed graphics accelerator software Sun's Creator 3D and Elite 3D graphics cards ### Sr. Software Engineer @ Wipro Infotech Jan 1993 – Jan 1996 Design and development for various projects – device dependent layers of the X Window system for various graphics accelerators on Novell’s Unixware, firmware for Stratacom (Cisco) switches. ## Education ### MBA in Marketing & Entrepreneurship Santa Clara University ### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi ### High School in Science St. Xavier School - Delhi ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vivek-khandelwal-67792b --- Source: https://flows.cv/vivekkhandelwal JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vivekkhandelwal/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12