Empower data engineers with the tools to build efficient pipelines, integrate AI and prepare your data stack for the future in an increasingly complex tech landscape.
JUN 03, 2025|10 min read
Padmaja Vrudhula
Ms. Vrudhula is the VP of Solution Innovation at Snowflake. She focuses on developing solutions for customers which accelerate the adoption of new product capabilities. Prior to Snowflake, Padmaja spent nearly a decade at VMware in a variety of functions. She led VMware’s Modern Applications Platform business unit to build a product for the migration and maintenance of heritage applications onto a Kubernetes platform. Prior to that, she was in VMware’s Office of the CTO focused on incubation of new technologies.
She has over twenty years of engineering leadership, strategy consulting, and process management experience. Ms. Vrudhula’s industry experience encompasses retail, healthcare, life-sciences, high-tech, manufacturing, telecom, and financial services. She is a passionate technologist (with multiple patents), a process wonk (certified PMP, ITIL, Agile Scrum Master, Six-Sigma, BPM), organizational change management specialist, and an experienced product development leader.
Ms. Vrudhula holds an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (concentration in emerging technology like ML & Quantum Computing) from the University of Washington, in addition to an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.
Padmaja is a champion of women in technology and has spent the last decade working on models and processes which affect systemic change in enterprises in order to drive the participation of under-represented groups in technology.
