EPISODE 248- Hustle at Hyperscale: Uber's EMEA Head of Network Infrastructure Vishnu Acharya Unpacks 10x, 100x, 1000x Growth
Episode Description
Vishnu Acharya is a well-rounded technology leader and speaker with over 20 years of experience spanning engineering and operations. He has worked both as an individual contributor and in senior leadership roles. Currently, he is an engineering leader at Uber, where he focuses on hyperscale production network engineering, infrastructure, and software automation. Known for his natural curiosity to break and fix things, Vishnu is driven by a passion to learn, teach, create, and bring order out of chaos.
On The Menu:
- Scaling Uber's infrastructure from 16 to 4,000 engineers
- Building systems that survive 10x, 100x, 1000x growth
- Network bottlenecks in AI factories and GPU connectivity
- How Uber for Business started from a random networking request
- Angel investing lessons: backing founders over trends and hype
- China expansion: cranes, windows, and creative data center solutions
- Autonomous vehicle push in 2016: when innovation moved too fast