Velchamy Sankarlingam Joins Zoom as President of Product and Engineering
May 26 2020 - 9:00AM
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) today announced that
Velchamy Sankarlingam will join the company as the President of
Engineering and Product, effective June 12. Sankarlingam comes to
Zoom after more than nine years at VMware, where he was most
recently Senior Vice President, Cloud Services Development and
Operations.
Reporting directly to Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan, Sankarlingam will
oversee the company’s engineering, product, and dev ops teams. Zoom
recently announced that it will expand its engineering team with up
to 500 new headcount based in Phoenix, Arizona and Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
“Zoom has scaled impressively to meet the demands placed on it
by the global health crisis and is making a meaningful difference
in the work and lives of all that use it,” said Sankarlingam. “I am
excited to bring my expertise in scaling enterprise collaboration
and cloud technology to help them lead the charge in connecting the
world now and in the future.”
“Having known Velchamy for years, I have admired both his
incredible ability to relate to people and his deep understanding
of, and experience in, building and implementing secure and
scalable collaboration technology. Given the scale at which we
operate and the importance of the communications happening on our
platform, there is no time for delay and no room for error.
Velchamy will help our product, engineering, and dev ops teams work
lockstep to support our ever-expanding customer base around the
world,” said Yuan.
About Velchamy SankarlingamVelchamy
Sankarlingam is President of Product and Engineering for Zoom.
Prior to joining Zoom, Velchamy was Senior Vice President of Cloud
Services Development and Operations at VMware and had roles across
both R&D and IT. He managed a business unit in R&D and was
also responsible for all infrastructure in the company, including
building and operating one of the largest private clouds. Velchamy
was also responsible for helping VMware transform to SaaS and the
development of all business applications at VMware. Before joining
VMware, Velchamy was Vice President of Engineering and Operations
at Cisco where he was responsible for engineering and operations of
Webex. Prior to that, Velchamy held Vice President positions at
Webex (acquired by Cisco) and Presenter.com (acquired by Webex). He
also worked at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), IBM, Network
Computing Devices, and Standard Microsystems. Velchamy is on the
board of Bellus3D.
About ZoomZoom Video Communications, Inc.
(NASDAQ: ZM) brings teams together to get more done in a
frictionless and secure video environment. Our easy, reliable, and
innovative video-first unified communications platform provides
video meetings, voice, webinars, and chat across desktops, phones,
mobile devices, and conference room systems. Zoom helps enterprises
create elevated experiences with leading business app integrations
and developer tools to create customized workflows. Founded in
2011, Zoom is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices
around the world. Visit zoom.com and follow @zoom_us.
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