Harsh Patel

Director of Engineering

Chicago, Illinois, United States15 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led multiple mobile engineering teams at Adyen.
  • Successfully managed X-Ray feature for Prime Video apps.
  • Developed high-end fashion retail app with significant user engagement.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce expert with strong mobile application development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Mobile ApplicationsProduct DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentProject ManagementAgile Project ManagementAndroid DevelopmentWeb ServicesDatabase Management

Other Skills

AndroidC#C++CSSJavaJavaScriptLeadershipMS SQL ServerMySQLPHPProgram ManagementScrumSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Project ManagementiOS

About

Working as Engineering Director at Adyen leading multiple mobile engineering teams serving mobile in-person payments for clients across several geographies. Previous experience includes working as (1) Software Development Manager for Amazon leading multiple mobile, web and Living Room teams building X-Ray feature for Prime Video apps, (2) Software Manager at Accenture and (3) Lead Engineer at Tagkast and Sears Holdings where I built customer facing retail apps. I enjoy balancing technical and managerial functions in the role and have always focused on building breadth of skills and technologies throughout my career. I have deep interest in acquiring knowledge and experience in any area and pursuing it with enthusiasm. I am keen on trying new technologies and constantly improving user experience.

Experience

Adyen

Director of Engineering, Mobile In-Person Payments

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Chicago, IL · Hybrid

  • Leading 5 geographically distributed engineering teams that own all mobile in-person payments technologies for Adyen (Tap to Pay, NYC1 Chip reader, Adyen Payments app, etc.).
  • Setting long-term vision and strategy for Adyen mobile payments across 6 continents.
Mobile ApplicationsProduct DevelopmentJavaScriptJavaScrumWeb Services+1

Amazon

2 roles

Software Development Manager

Jun 2022Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Managed geographically distributed Android, iOS, Web and Living Room engineering teams that own the X-Ray experience on Prime Video apps.
Mobile ApplicationsiOSWeb DevelopmentScrum

Software Development Manager

Jan 2020Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Led 2 iOS mobile engineering teams who collectively build and maintain customer-facing high-end fashion retail app for Shopbop. The app is publicly available in 120 regions around the world, has customer rating of 4.7/5, 3 million average monthly user sessions and accounts for 40% of org's revenue.
iOSMobile ApplicationsWeb DevelopmentScrum

Accenture

Software Development Manager

Jul 2015Jan 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • Owning the strategic planning and project management for long-term engineering projects, creating value for our Accenture clients
  • Hiring, developing, and mentoring team leads and engineers, and managing the day-to-day activities of the engineering team in an Agile/Scrum environment
  • Managing cross-functional and distributed teams teams of 20+ people consisting of software developers, testers, and designers
  • Defined, managed and improved the software and product development processes for Accenture clients
  • Working closely with engineers and scientists to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
Project ManagementAgile Project ManagementSoftware Development

Tagkast

Lead Software Developer

Jun 2014Jun 2015 · 1 yr · Greater Chicago Area

  • Developing and innovating the Tagkast’s client facing, social-media marketing, tablet app for Android. Utilizing the new Facebook and Twitter SDKs for social interactions on the app.
  • Architected and implemented the Push notification framework to build a smooth and attractive user experience.
  • Implemented the Multi-Tablet Sync feature for syncing the data across multiple tablets in the same event.
  • Actively learning the iOS Swift development for the future iOS app.
Android DevelopmentJavaWeb Services

Sears holdings corporation

2 roles

Team Lead / Scrum Master

Promoted

Nov 2011Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • Working on mobile application projects for Sears on Android and mWeb platforms.
  • Overlooking the operations as the Scrum Master for each of those projects.
  • Developed Geofencing solution for targeting offers to the customers in the store, thereby, making the experience more engaging.
  • Working on AngularJS for the new Sears and Kmart hybrid apps.
  • Developed FindYourWay mapping solution for helping customer find a particular department on the store map.
  • Used Web Services for implementation of core functions of the application.
  • Worked on RESTful web services for JBOSS application server.
  • Taking active participation in innovating the software for the projects.
  • Front-End : Java/Android/Javascript
  • Back-End : MySQL/Web Services
Mobile ApplicationsJavaWeb Services

Data Analyst

Nov 2011Jun 2012 · 7 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • Worked on two mobile application projects for Sears on Android platform.
  • Attained expertise in Geo-Coding (geo-coded 13000+ nodes) and WiFi-Fingerprinting (2000+ nodes).
  • Added enhancements like Search Box for searching POI’s as well as location names.
  • Improving the customer facing application by adding visual effects to the loading sequence of location list as well as toggling WebView and Search Box.
  • Tested the software and debugged the errors in WiFi-Collector App.
  • Handled the location repository database of the application.
  • Portrayed very good enthusiasm and diligence in learning and innovating.
  • Quickly learned and got familiar with Sears Mobile Café project and solved major errors in the NFC part of the customer facing app and made it ready to be launched.
  • Suggested and implemented new features for the customer-facing app of SMC project.
  • Front-End : Java/Android/PHP
  • Back-End : MySQL/Web Services
  • IDE : Eclipse
JavaAndroidWeb ServicesMobile Applications

Adani enterprise ltd

Web Developer

Jun 2010May 2011 · 11 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

  • Participated in analysis, design, coding, implementation and testing of Enterprise Portal website for Adani Enterprise Ltd. This project was intended to improvise and replace the currently existing Enterprise Portal of the company.
  • The employees can interact with each other and with the higher managers for the formal purposes.
  • The circulars, notices, articles, photos and videos regarding the ongoing development in the company can be uploaded and seen by everyone in the company.
  • The content was monitored by the admin who had the authority to delete or change any content as and when required. Whenever any employee or manager posted an article/photo/video, it will not be displayed instantly. It will wait for the approval of the admin before it can be displayed on the website.
  • Worked on .NET framework 3.5 for the development.
  • Used Javascript for the advertisements and validation controls on the website.
  • Used CSS and HTML for basic formatting and layout of the website.
  • Used GridView for the tables and their functions.
  • Used stored procedures, triggers, Transact-SQL statements. For example, all the people participating in the given submission of work should know if there are any updates or progress in the work.
  • Used error and exception handling techniques for the error control.
  • Used ADO .NET components for the datasets and datatable functions.
  • Used MultiView functions
  • Front-End : C#
  • Back-End : MS SQL Server 2005
  • IDE : MS Visual Studio 2005
Web DevelopmentC#MS SQL ServerDatabase Management

N.i.infotech

Web Developer - Intern

Jan 2010May 2010 · 4 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

  • Developed a website about "Online Shopping" as a part of internship program.
  • The website was intended for the customers using the internet for shopping at home, thereby greatly saving the time required for travel as well as the efforts required to go to and fro from one department to another for buying things.
  • The website had basic functionality like adding items, sorted by category and department, to the cart, updating the quantity or deleting them from the cart and/or adding new items.
  • The final price quotation will be displayed after the customer is done shopping so that it will proceed to checkout.
  • Worked on .NET framework 3.5 for the development.
  • Worked on stored procedures, triggers, Transact-SQL statements like, whenever the person checked out the item, the trigger will notify the sales department, the inventory will decrease by 1 and the respective invoice will be generated.
  • Front-End : C#
  • Back-End : MS SQL Server 2005
  • IDE : MS Visual Studio 2005
Web DevelopmentC#MS SQL ServerDatabase Management

Education

L.J. Institute of Technology

B.E. — Computer Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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