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Shailesh Kumar

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Senior Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Shailesh Kumar is the SVP of Engineering at Salesforce, leading the Commerce & Retail Cloud. He has a distinguished career scaling global engineering teams and driving product innovation at high-growth companies like ClickUp, MuleSoft, and Tableau. He earned his B. Tech from the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad.

Outside of his executive role in technology, Shailesh has a passion for woodworking. This hands-on, creative pursuit offers a contrast to his career focused on building large-scale software platforms and leading global engineering organizations.

Unique fact: He is a passionate woodworker.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Senior Vice President of Engineering
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Shailesh shows up

Judgemental
ROI Conscious
Hard To Convince

They can be nudged to make faster decisions by offering what they value. They respond well to confident salespeople. They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully.

Priorities

Topics Shailesh cares about

Agentic Commerce
He is currently leading Salesforce's push into the next era of commerce innovation, focusing on AI agents and next-generation retail technology to transform the buyer journey.
Scaling Engineering Teams
A core theme in his career, he has scaled technology organizations 3x at previous companies and frequently discusses his pragmatic approach to growing global teams.
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Career

Work history

8-2024
Senior Vice President of Engineering
Salesforce
7-2024
Technical Advisor
hyperexponential
8-2021 - 8-2024
SVP and Head of Engineering
ClickUp
9-2018 - 8-2021
VP of Engineering
MuleSoft
2-2017 - 9-2018
Director Of Product Development
Tableau Software
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2000 - 2004
B.Tech
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
1998 - 2000
SSE
Delhi Public School, Bokaro
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Calculativeness (C)

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