Oct 2018 – Nov 2022 · 4 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Heading engineering for multiple teams at Carta, responsible for Private equity management, compensation and Liquidity.

Jul 2018 – Oct 2018 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Lead the vision and strategy for entire engineering (Web, Mobile, Server side) and built a platform that has tremendous scalability and responsiveness using data science to make impactful decisions from global, gig-sourced, mobile collected data (i.e. Uber for Data).
• Collaborated with other functional leaders in R&D to plan, forecast and execute on company vision and strategies, navigating between tactical marketing asks and longer term product market fit features, while keeping within resourcing constraints.
• Set up company level processes, managed department budgets, relationship management, agile workshops, CI/CD initiatives, planned company milestones, and managed three remote offices and contractors.
• Collaborated with Sales and BD teams with the deal desk concept of negotiating features and capabilities being promised to the prospective clients.

Jul 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Lead the re-architecture and building of a scalable and highly performant software at Premise based on the well understood key concepts but not well executed architecture model.
• Coached engineering managers and engineers to success by removing roadblocks, understanding personal goals, motivating them to excel in their areas of expertise, and not letting silos being created within teams.
• Partnered with the recruiting team to set up interview modules, brief and de-brief panel wraps up process. Hired many engineers, tech leads, managers basically building multiple engineering teams from ground up.
• Set up highly efficient lines of communication between product and engineering leads by putting in place processes like early initiative reviews, creation of epics, and bottom up approach towards arriving at a solution.
• Organized engineering teams with product aligned verticals while making sure no meeting/process over head was introduced.

Apr 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Lead and managed multiple engineering teams working on next generation of the Climate products for Mobile, Web and API micro services providing the cross-product features, common frameworks, architectural enhancements, and strategic solutions
• Ideated and expected on the development of Scouting service for users on both iOS and Android mobile platforms for recording notes and media
• Lead the architectural enhancements for the mobile applications on iOS and Android including common networking library, offline syncing capability, and usage analytic integration
• Collaborated with Product, Operations, Quality Assurance, and Feature Development teams
• Parented with Recruiting team to hire highly talented and motivated mobile and API engineers to raise the bar

May 2011 – Apr 2012 · 11 mos

• Successfully Lead and released the expansion of single entity cash back platform to Cash back shopping portal for multiple partners.
• Worked with product managers to organize the backlog, write future user stories for new features for the platform transformation, set scope across multiple platforms.
• Trained engineers to start using scrum and scrum processes to become a self organizing team
• Worked on final redesign of older systems and provided guidance and legacy knowledge transfer to the team members working on the Core systems.

Apr 2008 – May 2011 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Grew into the Technical lead and primary contributor to core back end systems changes as a part of the business expansion project to go from single entity Cash Back business model to a Cash Back Shopping Portal, to be used by multiple partners.
• Lead to software and QA engineers as well as Operations and DBAs (on shore and offshore)
• Responsible for core system that were source of both, profit and customer rewards and systems that were instrumental to acquiring customers and stimulating purchases and referrals.
• Built scalable, maintainable, flexible and stable core systems which among others facilitate quick business expansions and improvements.

May 2011 – Apr 2015 · 3 yrs 11 mos · San Jose, ca

• Managed and mentored a team of Developers and Quality Engineers through complete software lifecycle for high performance, scalable and profitable web content service, a part of Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite
• Managed feature backlog with product managers, release planning, work on all of scrum artifacts for the teams involved
• Hired new talent, remove any blockers for the team, break silos between cross functional teams
• Heavily involved with many initiatives across the organization: high availability, continuous integration, branch management, monitoring/alerts (Splunk and NewRelic)
• The web content service is used on cross-platform suite of products called the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, used by world’s top publishers, and consumed by millions of users on tablets, mobile devices and desktop everyday.

Jun 2007 – Oct 2007 · 4 mos · Mountain view

• Worked with VeriSign Identity Protection Services team. This is a web-service provided to the VeriSign customers. Primarily used for One Time Password validation and token management. The application included dynamic Provisioning for VIP related tokens, Shared Secret provisioning for mobile phones and VIP token management portal for provisioned tokens.