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title: "VaibhaV Sharma - Production Engineering Leadership in San Francisco Bay Area | Tal"
description: "Meet VaibhaV Sharma, Production Engineering at Meta/Facebook based in San Francisco Bay Area. AI stack includes claude, codex, and grok. Explore public work links including claude.ai."
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# VaibhaV Sharma on Tal

## Headline

Production Engineering at Meta/Facebook

## About

Getting Things Done with People / Engineering / Fun / Focus

## Location

San Francisco Bay Area

## AI stack

claude

codex

grok

openai

## Work experience

Production Engineering Leadership at Meta, May 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 6 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, \- AI, compute, storage, rack/power and liquid cooling hardware \- Fleet Reliability, telemetry and large data pipelines \- AI agent accelerated workflows, significantly reducing time to production \- Supporting and leading some of the smartest engineers in the industry, enabling them to do their best work \- Driving efficiency and execution velocity through people / process / technology alignment across a large set of global teams

IT / Security Engineering Advisor at Self\-Employed, Sep 2020 \- Apr 2021 · 8 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, IT and security engineering advisor to fintech, cybersecurity and software development customers\.

Vice President \- Global Operations at Yaana, Jan 2017 \- Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, \- Country scale, national security and lawful interception solutions with large scale air\-gapped infrastructure \- Data privacy and security, international compliance \- Roaming data analytics services \- Full lifecycle, customer success focused engineering and operations \- Global customer support \- Hybrid \- on\-prem, SAAS, private and public cloud deployments

Director \- Global Operations at Yaana, Jan 2014 \- Dec 2016 · 3 yrs, San Francisco Bay Area, \- Mergers and Acquisitions \- Global operations consolidation \- Sales support, customer operations \- IT architecture leadership

Principal Engineer at Yaana, Dec 2007 \- Dec 2013 · 6 yrs 1 mo, San Francisco Bay Area, \- Core IT infrastructure and operations architecture from the ground up \- Large $ capex and opex spend management \- Built and scaled highly secure infrastructure with primary focus on physical security and stealth operations \- Customer and product team partnerships to deliver, scale and sustain critical operations infra \- Hired, mentored and led IT operations teams, scaling from the first member to several global teams

Principal Engineer at Ishi Systems Inc\., Nov 2002 \- Dec 2013 · 11 yrs 2 mos, New York City Metropolitan Area, Delivered a portfolio of end\-user services running on a mixture of free/open source software and commercial solutions\. \- IT architecture leadership partnering with product development and executive leadership teams Customer \- Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- \- Helped deliver the next generation of Cisco AON product on latest generation Cisco/Intel hardware platform\. \- Ported AON software stack, including Linux kernel and apps to the newer Intel based CADE2140, 2142 and 1010 appliances\. Designed and delivered a CDROM based manufacturing process for CADE devices\. \- Worked with Cisco Advanced Services BU to deliver the AVM Traffic Controller engine appliance\. \- Contributed to the development of NME\-APA \(Bryce\) bandwidth management / control product\. Customer \- Cellecast, Inc, Vancouver, WA \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- \- Led architecture and implementation of an "audio on demand" platform to run a news / entertainment media delivery service\. \- Built a scalable, secure and cost effective phone application platform using Asterisk, PHP\-AGI, and various Open Source tools on Linux\. \- Managed datacenter infrastructure and web hosting services\.

Network Consultant at Exocore Consulting Pvt\. Ltd\., Jan 2001 \- Sep 2002 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bangalore, India, \- Managed core IT infrastructure for several enterprise customers\. \- Developed a LAMP based provisioning system for a cable ISP's network management\. \- Ran security audits of customer facing assets\. \- Wrote several articles for a national technology magazine \- PCQuest \- for its Linux editions\. \- Conducted corporate training sessions\.

## Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, D\.A\.V\.V\.

High School, Choithram

## Public links

- claude\.ai: https://claude\.ai/artifact/YBSNWLpz6ocvMw92d6nksV

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