Vinai Chalamkuri

Director@MongoDB | Ex-IBM,Cognizant,Infosys,Wipro: Transforming enterprises using Agentic AI to modernize legacy systems, GTM Strategy, Accelerated applications delivery | MIT Agentic AI Certified

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

About

Proven leader in driving strategic sales growth, SaaS innovation, Agentic AI, Cloud based solutions. Expertise in managing $40M+ NARR portfolios, delivering client-centric solutions, and fostering trusted relationships with C-suite leaders and strategic partners. Skilled in Go-To-Market strategies, legacy modernization, cloud migrations, tailored frameworks to optimize enterprise ROI, MIT Certified in Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation Strategic Growth: Competitive differentiation, SaaS innovation, and revenue leadership. Tech Expertise: AWS, Azure, MongoDB; Agentic AI, LangChain, CrewAI. Consultative Leadership: MEDDPICC methodology, outcome-focused selling, and ecosystem mastery (AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.). P&L Management: Oversight of portfolios exceeding $40M NARR, driving profitability sustained growth. Delivering transformative solutions through strategic frameworks, advanced technology thru Co-sell and Co-create motions and trusted partnerships to accelerate growth and innovation.

Experience

  • Principal Partner Director at MongoDB
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    Dynamic GTM and Channel Sales Leader with expertise in driving enterprise adoption of MongoDB, Cloud, Data, and AI modernization across financial services, insurance, healthcare, retail industries. Accelerating data-driven innovation—MongoDB’s database , Agentic AI adoption to deliver sustained growth via direct and partner-led strategies. Leveraged sales frameworks:Tiger Sales Process MEDDICC to execute AI-focused solutions tailored to industry-specific opportunities. Collaborative Innovator: Strategically partnered with hyperscalers, GSIs, ISVs, OEMs, data partners, and cross-functional teams to co-develop solutions to solve key industry challenges unlocking whitespace opportunities to extend MongoDB’s market presence, accelerate adoption. Key Achievements: Go-to-Market Leadership: Scaled MongoDB’s multi-regional channel business by implementing repeatable co-sell methodologies, driving partner-sourced pipeline and establishing strategic frameworks that delivered measurable outcomes. Enterprise Cloud Modernization: Enabled platform transformations for enterprises, drive productivity, long-term architectural plan leveraging MongoDB’s scalable solutions & AWS cloud Agentic AI Implementation: Spearheaded partnerships with GSIs, transforming into product aligned alliances, cultivated champions to advance AI adoption, integration-Voyage AI models, LangChain Industry Certifications: MIT Certified in Agentic AI Transformation, AWS Certified AI Practitioner, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Microsoft Certified Azure

  • Cloud Services Business Director at IBM
    Mar 2019 - Mar 2025 · 6 yrs 1 mo

    • Responsible for building go-to-market (GTM) strategy, conducting customer envisioning workshops, and delivering solutions for hybrid cloud services for signature clients. • Leverage customer mapping and in-depth market effectiveness analysis for airline, transportation, retail, healthcare, and financial industries. • Drive implementation websites on AWS Cloud, migrating from on-premises Infra to Cloud utilizing a multitude of AWS services in multi-region active-active design. • Provide wide-ranging architectural guidance and oversight to Cloud implementation teams leveraging Kubernetes Containers, Microservices , AWS services, serverless capabilities to meet business needs. • Designed comprehensive Cloud Security Posture management (CSPM) Strategies collaborating with CSPM vendors (Wiz) : Delivery methodology, CSPM tools, Security governance and audits • Perform DevSecOps implementations leveraging Jenkins, GitHub, Maven, Ant, SonarQube, and the building of multi-technology pipelines. Notable achievements while in the position have included: - Successfully sold and implemented IBM Cloudpaks, generating subscription-based revenue for application, API integration, data lake, and process automation, achieving a 60% reduction in design time for production systems. - Designed and developed application modernization in a cloud transformation, hybrid workspace solution leveraging Cloudpaks, Cloud Kits, Well-Architected framework, Gen AI Assets,DevSecOps. - Designed a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) for target state architectures, including mainframe applications and Oracle databases on-premise, and built a Java platform with Postgres SQL on AWS for internal/external consumption. - Led new business development with a yearly target of $60M, exceeding the 2023 and 2024 revenue plans by 25% and 30%. - Drove Cloud transformation deals, successfully winning deals worth Delta Airlines, Google, Target, T-Mobile and Ahold deals in 2024.

  • Engagement Director at Infosys
    Apr 2016 - Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    • Directed large-scale initiatives related to cloud migration, application modernization, and DevOps across clients with teams of 100 to 600+ and maintained profit and loss (P&L) responsibility of $50M for the organization. • Led a digital transformation deal that included an AWS Cloud/SaaS Application that drove PCF (cloud readiness strategy/transformation, performance/chaos engineering, failover and elasticity testing, and ETL/DW and big data). Notable achievements while in the position included: - Won/secured competitive deals, including a $10M MFS deal, a 15M BB&T deal, and an NT TCOE $40M deal. - Designed a $10M software and services deal that helped set up a Service Virtualize CoE, partnering with CA using Dev-Test: virtual environments and service virtualization to drive 20 % higher coverage and a 15-20% cost reduction. - Produced $8M in savings achieved by implementing an Agile DevOps transformation, CI/CD with full stack automation, and BDD methods for key initiatives with 100% unit and 70% test automation and 100% user acceptance testing (UAT) automation using Atlassian stack. - Implemented platform solutions with an AI/ ML platform with BOTS, achieving optimization with 20% savings and 90% automation while implementing static and dynamic security testing using Veracode and AppScan for large clients.

  • Regional QE Director at Cognizant
    Mar 2011 - May 2016 · 5 yrs 3 mos

    • Managed strategic engagements, including CoEs, for a global engineering practice with a P&L of $40M+ and 550+ associates with clients, including ESI, AAMC, Kaiser, Emblem Health, and BCBS. • Served as the ICD-10 CoE Leader managing key compliance-related initiatives, designing service Catalogues, GTM strategies, and market analysis. • Led an enterprise-wide initiative to merge legacy ESI and MHS IT applications, including development and quality assurance. Notable achievements while in the position included: - Selected as a pursuit leader to drive mega deals, spearheading a highly competitive request for proposal (RFP) against the top 4 vendors, winning a $90M deal for 5 years - Rationalized products, business processes, and scope for 25+ capabilities, driving efficiencies up to 99% and $6M in reduced costs. - Drove the successful completion of claims platform migration efforts for 9 regions with an estimated value of $18M using the Xcelys product that provided faster online management, and robust security features that produced a 15% productivity improvement.