Anil Shinde

Anil Shinde has a strong background in sales engineering and management. Anil is currently the Head of Sales Engineering at Spot AI, where they lead the global sales engineering organization and oversees the hiring and onboarding of presales engineers. Anil also collaborates with Marketing on content development and works with Product Management in identifying product gaps and field releases to support quarterly revenue goals.

Prior to their current role, Anil held several positions at Fastly, including Senior Sales Engineering Manager and Sales Engineering Manager in the Enterprise verticals. Anil was responsible for managing sales engineering teams, hiring and onboarding new sales engineers, and partnering with sales leaders to define strategies and revenue goals. Anil also played a key role in technical consultative selling and represented Fastly's Edge Cloud Products.

Before joining Fastly, Anil worked at FixStream as a Customer Engineering Manager, focusing on field product enablement and training for the company's network and application monitoring products. Anil also contributed to product research and development efforts based on customer requirements.

Anil's earlier experience includes working at Akamai Technologies as a Lead Solutions Architect in Solutions Engineering and at Cisco as an Enterprise Architect in Network and Data Center Services. At Akamai Technologies, they were involved in architecting solutions, while at Cisco, they played a vital role in planning and designing a virtualized data center build initiative.

Anil began their career at Xoriant as a Principal Information Technology Consultant, where they led a team of IT consultants and managed their development and career progression. Anil was responsible for tracking project deliverables and deadlines.

Prior to Xoriant, Anil worked at ICICI Bank as a Web Infrastructure Manager, leading web application and infrastructure teams in transforming legacy client-server-based applications to web-based applications. Anil scaled the team and contributed to retiring traditional client-server technology for improved scalability.

Anil's early career included a role as a Research Associate in Computational Biophysics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Anil taught computer science courses and assisted with research projects related to genetic sequence structure modeling.

Overall, Anil Shinde has a diverse range of experience in sales engineering, management, and technical consulting roles across various industries and has consistently demonstrated strong leadership and technical skills throughout their career.

Anil Shinde completed their education in a chronological manner. Anil first pursued a Bachelor's degree in Science with a major in Quantum Physics from the University of Mumbai from 1988 to 1991. Following that, they enrolled at the National Centre for Software Technology in Mumbai and obtained a Master's degree in Computer Science from 1995 to 1997.

In addition to their formal education, Anil Shinde has also obtained several certifications. In April 2022, they completed the courses "Ken Blanchard on Servant Leadership" and "Key Mental Shifts for Servant Leadership" offered by LinkedIn. Furthermore, in February 2022, they obtained the "Discovery2Win" certification from 2Win!.