Mar 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Leading the client-facing Buyer App full-stack team of 8 engineers, consisting of 4 backend, 3 frontend developers, & 1 QA engineer; Fostering close relationships with the team by assisting them in overcoming obstacles and holding weekly 1:1 sync meetings to provide feedback and coaching.
• Familiarized myself with the team's processes, team dynamics, project status, system design, and technology stack (including node.js, PostgreSQL, React, Helm, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and Datadog) within five weeks of onboarding.
• Collaborated with the Product Owner, UX Designer, and team engineers to compile the remaining tasks for the ongoing project (a revamp of a legacy app with added features to improve user engagement) and divided them into sprints; Assisted the team in delivering these tasks incrementally.
• Partnered with the Product Owner to implement a number of process improvements to ensure clear requirements & team targets, improved planning and realistic commitments, and increased efficiency, team motivation & collaboration.
• Introduction of Scrum Ceremonies such as Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Reviews, Retrospectives.
• Assisted Product Owner in preparing a product roadmap and created tech debt roadmap.
• Began tracking feature usage metrics using datadog.
• Defined process for building and grooming the product backlog.

Jan 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Executed smooth transition as an Engineering Manager from MOPS to DDA, gained credibility as a leader among my former peers, Deep-dived into inner workings of DDA within a month to bring process improvements.
• Managed 11 engineers over 4 years across two teams - MOPS & DDA; Setup a career progression path and provided guidance on both technical and interpersonal skills;
• Held weekly 1:1 to ensure close connection and timely feedback; Retained 10/11; Mentored 4 to promotion; PIP for low performing employees and enabled transition to suitable teams.
• Conducted hiring manager and DS/Algo rounds in campus and lateral hiring.
• Team successfully delivered several products like Matching, Wearability, Purchase Planning, Segmentation, Incentives mgmt, Personalized UX mgmt, Marketing Campaigns mgmt.
• Collaborated across engineering, data science, operations teams to help my team deliver a wide range of projects like DART, Several ML models, Elastic Search upgrade with comprehensive planning.
• Guided team in the design of systems for Pricing, Matching, Segmentation using microservice and modular design pattern to accommodate continuously evolving business model.
• Took self-initiatives to identify areas for design improvement to enhance performance and speed up development. This resulted in 95% performance improvement in Matching Engine, 1% shipment cost reduction, 1/10X development time in segmentation systems, nearly zero bugs in production.
• Standardized Python development; helped team develop shared libraries for fundamental code blocks; automated testing.
• Promoted adoption of new technology that promised cost-effectiveness and efficient resource utilization. Led Big Data storage migration from MySQL to HBase, batch jobs migration from dedicated tomcat server to Oozie cloud to promote resource sharing, converted synchronous communication to async using RabbitMQ for time-insensitive tasks.

Aug 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Sep 2017 – Aug 2018 · 11 mos

Apr 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

Jul 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Built, enhanced, and troubleshoot ETL jobs to process bank transactions, migrated them to java, and developed core modules to use across all ETL jobs.
• Assisted the Infra team as a stretch goal in building features for a common dashboard that displayed bank and card transactions for reporting and debugging purposes using Django.
• Built a Credit score generation system with a team of 5 people selected from cross-functional teams using Neural Networks for the PayPal Startup Incubation Program.