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Vivek D.

Observer · DISC type ci
Director of Software Engineering at Lupa
📍 United Kingdom

Vivek is the Director of Software Engineering and a founding engineer at Lup, where he leads the development of software for veterinarians. His career includes leadership roles at Google, where he launched multiple features for the Play Console, and engineering at Amazons DynamoDB team. People often describe him as ambitious and instrumental.

He is passionate about entrepreneurship and the startup journey, actively sharing insights through a social media series called "The Bootstrap Files. " This project explores core startup concepts like innovation, failure, and passion, demonstrating his commitment to building businesses from the ground up and sharing that knowledge.

As employee #1 at his current company, he was instrumental in hiring and building the entire engineering organization from scratch.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Director of Software Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
United Kingdom
Personality Overview

How Vivek shows up

Assertive
Example Seeker
Value Driven

They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince. They ask a lot of questions and rely heavily on information and collaterals.

Priorities

Topics Vivek cares about

Startup Bootstrapping
He is actively creating and sharing a 45-day social media series called "The Bootstrap Files" focusing on entrepreneurship and startup life.
Engineering Leadership
As a founding engineer, he built his company's engineering team from the ground up and holds a certification in "Leading Teams for Emerging Leaders".
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Career

Work history

4-2024
Director of Software Engineering
Lupa
1-2022 - 4-2024
Team Lead
Google
9-2020 - 1-2022
Software Engineer 3
Google
8-2018 - 9-2020
Software Engineer 2
Google
8-2016 - 10-2017
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2013 - 2015
Master of Science (MS)
RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Education details unavailable
APS Udhampur
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

c

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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