Entrepreneurship in the Tech Sector: Victoria Livschitz, Founder, Grid Dynamics

Victoria Livschitz

Founder and EVP of Customer Success

Grid Dynamics

https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorialivschitz/

Victoria Livschitz founded Grid Dynamics in 2006 to bring new big ideas - cloud, open-source, DevOps and big data - to large enterprises. Under her leadership, Grid Dynamics became a successful, fast-growing engineering IT services company known for transformative, mission-critical cloud solutions for retail, finance and technology sectors. In 2015, Victoria transitioned to the role of Chief Technology Officer, and in October 2019, Victoria took on her current role as the Executive Vice President of Customer Success to lead the organization through the next phase of growth.

Prior to founding Grid Dynamics, Victoria spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems in a variety of technical leadership positions including Principal Architect of SunGrid, the world's first public cloud; Senior Scientist at Sun Labs; Chief Architect of Financial and Automotive Services; and Chief Architect of General Motors. Victoria started her career as an HPC engineer for Ford Motor Company. Victoria received numerous awards for engineering excellence, including Sun Systems Engineer of the Year and Ford Chairman’s Award, and holds several patents. Victoria graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University and attended graduate programs at Purdue University and Stanford University.