May 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Jose, California, United States · Remote

• Helping transform healthcare using technology (Products, Platform, Data, ML/AI) to deliver better care to patients, prevent hospitalizations and saving lives.
• Technology Single threaded owner (STO) for highest revenue generating program Attribution/Wellness/Emergecy/Transition of Care for the company.
• Setting technical vision across delivery teams
• Align cross-team resources based on priorities and ability to deliver business impact
• Guide teams in solving technical problems and sustainable architectural decisions
• Manage cross team dependencies, testing, deployment
• Removing blockers for delivery teams by coordinating with other STOs on cross-program contentions
• Working with Product and Business STO for creating a multi year roadmap for the program.

Jun 2018 – Mar 2023 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Mountain View, CA

• EM role:
• Our focus area are processes related to personalized data usage and storage across all products of Alphabet. Engineering manager for a team focused on developing solutions for quick, reliable and intuitive tools for certification of private data use. The team consisted of backend, frontend and data engineers. My team delivered:
• 2022 Privacy shield certification for all products of Alphabet by developing a custom tool from scratch to hold the certification data. This project was highly time sensitive and critical to business.
• Deduplicated multiple notification systems by developing a unified notification framework for sending notifications to users for processes related to governance related to private data.
• Kept the lights on the tool for privacy reviews.
• Oncall for backbone that hosts data and services related to private data usage.
• I was able to build a team by hiring and effectively managed stakeholder expectations to deliver projects on time and with quality. My work involved hiring, setting goals & OKRs, coaching engineers, performance management, working with xfn stakeholders like legal, Product, Program management, UX etc.
• TL role:
• Working on personalization and localization of Google search. This work involves, using p13n and l10n signals in a responsible way so as to earn user trust and provide better search results. Also it involves restricting the usage of p13n and l10n signals across the board for all ML systems. Providing users transparency of the signals used in search ranking by adding features to improve user trust.
• https://blog.google/products/search/about-search-results/

Feb 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked in Growth team which focuses on increasing and sustaining guests on AirBnb platform. In particular, my work involves engaging users by sending them personalized and promotional emails at their preferred time.
• Host team to make the data for listings more complete. Worked on data pipelines to shortlist hosts with low rating. Developed micro services to ask questions regarding listings to host and make the attributes more complete. Developed data pipelines to aggregate the data for the listing so that features can be used by the search team while matching query to listings.
• Conducted about 100+ technical interviews at AirBnb to help the hyper growth of the company from 300 engineers to 1000+ engineers.
• Skills involved: Ruby on Rails, Airflow, Backend, Redis, Resque

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 · 2 mos · Menlo park, California

• Worked for Data Management team. The work involved re-architecture of the tool used to import data across data centers. I removed the dependency of the service on a heavy cron-like distributed scheduler thereby making the user experience of the tool faster and smoother both for commandline and UI. The improved experience was because of the fact that removing scheduler made the tool atleast 4 times faster than before.
• The work involved coding in python, Java and XHP. Also it involved writing thrift calls for communication across modules written in different programming languages.

Aug 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Atlanta, Georgia, USA

• Responsibilities include interacting with faculty from various departments and to help them enhance learning and research at GSU through technology and innovation. Was involved with various web development projects for departments like Linguistics and English. Developed a visual deliberation tool for interaction of students in a classroom environment. The tool is expected to be integrated with desire2learn system used by GSU and many other universities.

Jul 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Developed multiplayer network based casual game, Uno Rush, written in C++ and released as part of Xbox Live's "Days of Arcade" promotion. Responsibilities including UI, Sound using XACT API, localization, polishing and general bug fixing. Working with Xbox UI (XUI) tool and artists to structure display and visuals for the game lobby/in-game/summary screens. Polishing the tutorial and several in-game animations/transitions.

May 2006 – Jul 2006 · 2 mos · Bristol, United Kingdom

• Designed an efficient approximation algorithm for balanced complete bipartite subgraph (BCBS) problem which is NP hard. The algorithm was simulated in C++. This problem was encountered in the domain of nano-electronic based circuits which are prone to faults. The work got published in IEEE Transactions journal on Circuits and Systems.