Maha Virudhagiri
Chief Technology Officer @ Coalition
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Technology Officer
2025 - Current
Leading all Engineering, Infrastructure, AI, Data, IT & Information Security
Coalition is a cyber insurance and security company that provides businesses to manage and mitigate cyber risks.
Raised $770,000,000.00 from Valor Equity Partners, Allianz X and Kinetic Partners.
Engineering, Design & Product Leader
2018 - 2024
Led Tesla’s Global Digital Experience organization, reporting to CIO. Drove frequent meetings with Elon & other Executives on product direction, strategic initiatives and user experience, ensuring alignment between technical execution and Tesla’s goals & objectives. Oversaw design, development, and delivery of customer and employee digital experiences across web, mobile, kiosk and associated backend platforms across all business units - Vehicle, Energy, Charging, Insurance, Accessories, Merchandise & more. It was an absolute privilege to lead insanely talented & committed missionaries across UI/UX Design, Product Management, Program Management & Engineering disciplines. We burnt so much midnight kWh to advance Tesla's mission & Elon's vision - Accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. ◦ Led a global team across US, Europe & Asia in Engineering, Product, UI/UX Design & Program Management ◦ Drove technical strategy for Tesla’s digital presence in 40+ countries - for B2C & B2B - managing Vehicle (S3XY, Cybertruck, Semi, Roadster), Energy (Solar, Powerwall, Megapack), Insurance, Charging (Supercharging, Home Charging, Commercial Charging), Order Management, Accessories & Merchandise, Financial Services & Payments ◦ Led technical transformation programs saving several 100s of millions of dollars annually by replacing multiple Fortune 100 SaaS platforms with custom built solutions ◦ Worked with Elon on all aspects of customer experiences and fun projects like Tesla Tequila, Mezcal, Beer, Short Shorts & LA Diner ◦ Revolutionized automotive industry by building first-ever integrated digital experience spanning entire vehicle ownership journey - from sales through delivery, service, roadside assistance, software upgrades, and customer support ◦ Transformed employee experience platforms (Recruiting, Engagement, Performance Management, Merit, Immigration, Time-keeping, Payroll etc.) as mandated by Board Chair during quarterly portfolio reviews
Tesla Motors is an electric vehicle and clean energy company that provides electric cars, solar, and renewable energy solutions.
Raised $19,374,213,101.00 from European Union, PennDOT, Australian Renewable Energy Agency and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.
Engineering & Product Leader
2017 - 2018
Ancestry is a web-based platform that helps its users to create their own family tree and help them preserve and share their family history.
Raised $33,200,000.00 from Silver Lake, Spectrum Equity, GIC and Banneker Partners.
Engineering & Product Leader
2011 - 2017
As the Product & Engineering Lead, I was responsible for several mission-critical products - all of the Item APIs serving the customer experience end to end across devices, data processing platform for item ingestion & ML platform - across multiple Walmart properties (Walmart.com, Walmart.ca, Sams Club, Walmart Grocery). We had a mix of everything in these product solutions - Messaging, numerous micro services, Orchestrators, massive data processing pipelines and APM solutions. As part of the core Catalog, I was also responsible for these functions - Product Matching, Attribute Extraction & Classification, where we use several Machine Learning models & Deep Neural Networks to properly match/group similar products from multiple sellers and enrich content to enable better discoverability.
Walmart Global Tech uses technology to operate smarter and deliver everyday low prices (EDLP) to customers and members.
Technical & Solution Architecture
2002 - 2011
As a Technology & Solution Architect, helped 4 of the top 5 Healthcare Insurance Companies with several, massive legacy modernization & migration initiatives. Some of these were SOA based, some of these were pure batch that had to scale for millions of transactions per day. Security & Privacy were non-negotiable due to the sensitivity of data involved.
TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management. With technology solutions touching more than half the U.S. population today.