Denis Gulsen

Denis leads the engineering teams responsible for Avalara's returns platform, focusing on accuracy, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency for customers. He was previously vice president of product development at Workday, managing their Data-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service products, and vice president of software development at Oracle, building Oracle’s Service Cloud and Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server. Denis has also held technical leadership positions at Sun Microsystems and several startup companies (founding one of them) and has been granted nine patents to date.