Vish Agashe

“I have worked directly and indirectly with Vish at Meta in Data Engineering role. He has played various roles in my career - mentor, coach, skip, and above all - one who challenged me to reflect deep within and unlock growth potential. Vish is a strong leader with deep understanding of product, strong analytics vision in mind tying product and data, along with great empathy and care for people. These 3 dimensions of product mindset, analytics expertise and people first makes him a great leader and visionary. Every single time I have talked to him, has led me to finding myself a bit more and putting me towards growth path. I have learnt so much from Vish in terms of identifying my strengths, knowing what’s holding me back, how to get out of comfort zone, speaking metrics, presenting your work to influence product, making hard calls easily and owning the results, showing true care, acting on what you believe in…. Yet, there’s so much more I could pick more from him. Vish started as DE manager at Meta when DE was centralized and under 70 DE org. He is one of the leaders who defined, shaped and got FB/Meta Data engineering where it is - integrated yet parallel to product. ”

“I am privileged to recommend Vish Agashe, my former VP of Data Engineering at Meta/Facebook, a visionary leader whose mentorship and expertise significantly influenced my professional journey at Meta for the past 6 years. Vish's unique blend of deep technical knowledge in Big Data, Analytics, BI, and Cloud Computing, combined with his exceptional leadership skills, made a remarkable impact at Meta. His strategic approach in leveraging individual strengths within the team led to the successful creation of industry-leading data dashboards and other innovative data products for top executives and data engineering community at Meta/Facebook. Vish's ability to provide timely, constructive feedback and his extraordinary capacity for reviewing projects and documents ensured our projects were consistently on track and aligned with the company's strategic goals. Vish's versatility as a leader is truly exceptional. He effortlessly navigates between complex technical challenges and nuanced managerial issues, providing guidance and solutions that are both innovative and pragmatic. His hands-on approach, whether it involved coding alongside engineers to unblock technical hurdles or resolving people-related challenges, showcases his commitment to team success and project excellence. Winners don't do different things; they do things differently and that’s evident in Vish's thought leadership. His wide-ranging expertise, from product development to strategy management across various industries, positions him as a remarkable leader in the tech world. Any organization would immensely benefit from Vish's leadership, strategic insights, and his unwavering commitment to excellence.”