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Vishal Sapra sits at the quirky and awesome intersection of Madison Avenue, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley, serving as Chief Marketing Officer in event-driven environments — launches, scale-ups, turn-arounds.
Vishal currently works with Bill Harris, founding CEO of PayPal, launching a new fintech in the consumer credit card space. Prior to this, Vishal led turn-around efforts for CareerBuilder (owned by Apollo) in the midst of the wildest labor market in our lived history.
Vishal is Founder/CEO of Code & Culture, a startup incubator and brand collabs consultancy that partners brands with the most powerful communities, causes, startups, and experiences fueling culture today.
In 2016 Vishal was recruited from MRY, a leading digital + creative agency, to join a small, hand-picked team that put together Mike Bloomberg's Presidential campaign viability analysis and infrastructure.
At MRY (exit: Publicis Groupe), Vishal helped lead global new business and innovation efforts, working with Fortune 500 brands (Coca-Cola, Visa, Adobe, Spotify, P&G, et al) to assess their business needs and deploy digital and social media infrastructure, strategy, analytics, media, and content services. In his innovation capacity, he worked closely with the start-up community to connect them to brands looking to keep up, lead, and innovate in a world where the consumer journey is in a state of disruption.
Vishal joined agency life from Bank of America's Investment Banking Division where he provided strategic and financial advisory services to retail and hospitality brands.
With unique insights into market trends, operational issues that affect businesses, and understanding how to navigate organizational change, Vishal helps bridge the principles of branding and business. 
I am a hands-on Software, Platform, and Automation Architect, specializing in 0 to 1, rapid start-up creation and scaling. I have extensive experience building out and evolving service-oriented architectures with complex third-party integration and business process requirements, particularly in the domains of payments, commerce, and banking.
I am an expert at Developer Efficiency, and I build and lead Platform Teams with a culture of Relentless, Extreme Automation, ensuring every feature development engineer is a 10X engineer. We pride ourselves, as part of a broader engineering organization, in delivering features faster than Product Teams can dream them up.
I - along with my cross-discipline Platform Team - design, build, and leverage advanced tools, standards, CI/CD processes, and a variety of unique and sophisticated techniques that collectively and holistically automate the entire Software Development Life Cycle and beyond.
Platforms I build are capable of spinning up entire software, infrastructure, and cloud stacks in under 30 minutes, ready for rapid application development. This includes Kubernetes Clusters, Cloud-native Databases/Queues/Topics, end-to-end Metrics/Logging/Tracing, and advanced security and Mutual TLS. On these Platforms, Engineers are capable of generating production-grade Micro Services and progressing them through Dev, Staging, and Production in less than 15 minutes. Each Micro Service comes out-of-the-box with unit and integration tests, database and automatic schema migration, and ready-made to integrate with CI/CD processes and interact with other applications on the network.
This kind and level of automation is unique within the industry, and requires collaboration and support across an entire skilled engineering team, with platform and architecture under my purview and guidance. I generally work with like-minded friends and colleagues I've made in the industry where we all compliment and effectively leverage each other's respective and unique skill sets. 
Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead with 15 years of commercial software engineering with a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and the importance of meeting business needs. I have 4 years of experience in leading teams of various sizes. This includes but is not limited to the creation of technical design, planning and coordinating team implementation efforts and ensuring that the team follows the best development practices, and collaboration with other teams (engineering, product, leadership).
Key skills and areas of expertise: distributed systems architecture and development, microservices, software engineering, API design, OOP, TDD, Java (including multithreading)/Scala, Spring Boot, SQL/NoSQL 
As a technology leader with extensive full stack experience, I specialize in building highly engaged teams and launching innovative hyper-scale products & platforms for both B2C and B2B markets globally. My expertise spans across various technologies, including AI/ML, Web, Mobile, APIs, e-commerce, retail, fintech, blockchain, crypto, martech, and more, which allows me to build game-changing solutions that solve real business problems.
Throughout my career, I've built industry-leading solutions across several sectors, including NeoBanks, lending, credit/debit, payments, wallets, fraud/risk, identity, white-label banking, cloud services, e-commerce, bill pay, retail, loyalty, subscription, data products, large-scale enterprise systems, one of a kind developer platforms and more.
I believe that a strong engineering culture is about adding business value and enabling engineers to operate at 10X productivity and ship high quality code fearlessly for billions of customers with a click. Some of the key principles I value include extreme automation, ownership, growth mindset, customer obsession, collaboration, engineering craftsmanship, get s$it done and more.
As a change agent, I'm adept at integrating and transitioning acquisitions in alignment with internal processes and resources, with the aim of maximizing performance, reducing operating costs, and enhancing infrastructure. 
