Apurva Dalal

CTO

India26 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering growth at Twitter India by 150% in 2021.
  • Bootstrapped Uber's India tech hub to over 400 engineers.
  • Established low attrition and high engagement culture at Twitter India.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in tech, specializing in scaling engineering teams and product development across B2B and B2C sectors.

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Agile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAnalyticsArchitectureBig DataBuilding, scaling and leading research and product development centers in IndiaCloud ComputingDatabasesDistributed SystemsE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareHadoopJavaMachine LearningManagement

About

* Technologist with global leadership experience at Twitter, Google, Uber, eBay and startups. * Built software products in areas of social media, E-commerce, search, enterprise cloud computing, Ads. * Responsible for bootstrapping and expansion of India engineering / Tech hubs for Google, Uber and Twitter. * Investor/Advisor for multiple startups/ VC firms. * 30 plus years of product development experience. My specialities are: * Building and scaling product development organizations from zero to thousands of talented technocrats. *Executive leader in most innovative tech companies on the planet including Google, Twitter, Uber and eBay as well as startups like Urban Ladder, Komli Media,...WebMD. *Hands-on technical competence required to build Scalable Distributed systems, Big Data, Data sciences, Analytics systems, and Machine learning. *Distributed engineering expertise: Delivery of many end-to-end world-class products with distributed teams in the USA and India.

Experience

Docusign

Vice President, Engineering & India Site Lead

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · India · Hybrid

Freelance

Chief Sabbatical Officer

Jan 2023Jun 2023 · 5 mos

  • Taking a break to learn, relax and invest (in no particular order).

Alltius

Advisor / Angel Investor

Dec 2022Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Bito

Advisor / Angel Investor

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Hatica

Advisor / Angel Investor

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Twitter

India Engineering Site Lead & International Growth

Apr 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · India

  • Head of Twitter India Engineering + Global engineering head for International growth: responsible for building out twitter's tech talent hub in India as well as product development for developing/emerging markets userbase growth.
  • Formulated and executed on product tech strategy in areas of personalization and growth (top of funnel optimization). Leading engineering areas of localization, user growth and personalization.
  • Reporting into GM (CEO+1) at Twitter and responsible for distributed sites strategy.
  • Scaled Twitter's engineering by 150% in 2021 - biggest growth ever for across Twitter's distributed sites internationally.
  • As India engineering lead, I put in place a site culture pillars strategy: Twitter India Tech has the lowest attrition globally (through mid 2022) and the highest engagement scores amongst employees.
  • Grew Twitter India site with core teams focused on data platform, Site reliability, international growth (India/Africa) and Ads/Revenues. Mentor and Coach for senior leaders.

Uber

India Engineering Site lead & Rider Growth

Jul 2016Jan 2021 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Founder/Site lead of Uber's India tech hub/site (Bangalore); bootstrapped it from 10s of engineers to 400+ technologists (engineers, PMs, designers, data scientists, researchers, ...) across 10+ product areas including rider, maps, marketplace, customer obsession, data platform, infrastructure, and Ad-tech.
  • Dual role at CxO+1 level of India site lead and Rider growth engineering lead for India/Asia/LATAM.
  • Strategic advisor and partner to Uber CTO office for scaling of Uber India tech hub including building out complete global teams for areas like Customer Support, Ad-tech, Maps, Marketplace and Rider growth.
  • Hired the senior most leaders for the site for various product areas - official mentor and coach for site leadership and programs.
  • In my functional role focused on rider global growth, my teams delivered on some of those most impactful, global initiatives Uber lite app, Uber bus, Rider Growth, Uber Rentals, Maps intelligence, Call2Ride, Ad-Tech data platform.
  • Partnered with distributed site leadership globally to come up with best practices for distributed sites and remote engineering at Uber. Hosted Dara and CxO leadership in India and responsible for getting CEO’s sponsorship to grow India tech hub to 1000s of engineers.

Urban ladder

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) & SVP Engineering

Jul 2015Jun 2016 · 11 mos · Bangalore

Snapshopr

Advisor / Angel Investor

Jan 2015Mar 2020 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Komli media

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) & SVP Engineering

Oct 2012Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

Google

Engineering site lead

Mar 2006Oct 2012 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Mountain view, California & Hyderabad, India

  • Started distributed engineering center in Hyderabad, India, and scaled it as a center of excellence for Google's enterprise and cloud computing division.
  • Led engineering across 20+ projects building core products/platforms with a focus on winning over Enterprise customers for Google.
  • Led engineering charters of Apps data migration, next generation Enterprise services such as email continuity, message security and e-discovery, Enterprise platform, reporting/analytics, and enterprise search.
  • Conceived and led the delivery of key global products including Email Message Continuity, Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange, Google Apps Vault, Google SMS Channels, Enterprise Cloud Search, Message log search, Platform OAuth Support, Google Sports Onebox
  • Engineering site leadership including championing recruiting, diversity and inclusion, facilities, PR, spokesperson for Google India...
  • Prior to the India site leadership assignment, I joined Google in mountain view as a leader on Adwords frontend engineering:
  • Led AdWords frontend engineering teams at Google with focus on reporting/analytics
  • Led product delivery of AdWords features in areas of campaign management, Ads text search, Ads performance reporting, ...across 120+ people engineering teams located across 6 geographical locations
  • Scaled and bolstered the production systems for AdWords in partnership with the SRE team.

Ebay inc.

Engineering Leadership, Search and Browse

Apr 2001Feb 2006 · 4 yrs 10 mos · San Jose, California

  • Led product development and architecture of eBay’s v1 and v2 search/browse technology stacks.
  • Also led the area of high-performance computing applications across eBay global engineering.
  • Responsible for scaling the search engine server infrastructure - from 28 million searches a day over 7 million items in 2001 to 400 million searches a day over 100 million items across 33 sites (in 2006).
  • Eng leader who worked to rebuild eBay's search from the ground up.

Webmd/healtheon

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 1999Jan 2001 · 2 yrs · Santa Clara, California

Education

The University of Dallas

M.B.A — Business Management

University of Mumbai

B.S — Computer Science

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