Apr 2019 – Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

• As a Senior Director of Engineering at Strivr, I play multiple roles:
• As a technology and a product leader, responsible for building customer facing products across desktop/mobile/web applications, cloud services and APIs, and the Big Data Analytics
• As an organizational leader, responsible for building, growing, and leading multiple engineering teams of engineers at different levels, technical leads, and engineering managers
• As an enterprise leader, I lead information security, compliance (SOC2/ISO), and corporate IT
• I'm responsible for the following activities:
• Lead, hire and grow teams of frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure engineers building products, services, and a platform for our customers and partners
• Engineering culture, practices and processes, and the technical roadmap
• Lead projects from discovery to delivery, driving initiatives that impact the larger team of 30+ engineers, EMs, PMs (product) by collaborating across cross functional teams and stakeholders
• Drive product roadmap and execution, and participate in technical design
• I partner closely with product management, project managers, data science team, customer facing teams, and business leaders.
• Deeply involved in Quarterly and Yearly planning for the teams, and building the product roadmap for Strivr Platform.
• My org is responsible for the whole nine yards:
• Design, Development and Release of multiple products & services including DevOps/SRE and customer escalations
• Cloud Infrastructure and CI/CD systems
• Third party integrations and enterprise readiness
• Our tech stack:
• Languages: C# .Net, Java, Python (Data applications), and React.TS
• Applications: Android/VR, WebApps, and Windows Desktop (WPF)
• Cloud backend services: Node.TS, .Net Core, GraphQL, RESTful APIs, Python
• Big Data: Beam, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Druid, Data lake, Data Store, Postgres
• GCP Cloud infrastructure: kubernetes, KMS, GAE, GCE, Airflow, Cloud functions

Oct 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

Jan 2014 – Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Skype for Android is one of the most popular apps with hundreds of millions of users and less than a billion app installs. We release/rollout on a weekly basis. In Dec 2015, Skype for Android was included in Google's "Best Apps of 2015" list.
• Skype Translator is a complex service that is built to scale, leveraging the power of Azure cloud services
• Skype bots are built using Microsoft bot framework and leverage various cognitive services to offer natural and delightful experiences to users
• Introduced a number of engineering and process improvements to enable rapid delivery of end user value with significant impact on the business
• Led an engineering team that delivered a few features with in-depth telemetry and experimentation of Skype Qik on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone

Jan 2008 – Dec 2013 · 5 yrs 11 mos

• Led the teams that owned several features of Lync (predecessor to Teams) on Mobile devices (iPhone/iPad, Windows Phone, Windows Slates).
• Responsible for the actual release to Apple AppStore and Microsoft Store.

Apr 2005 – Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Led the teams responsible for Wi-Fi stack, DHCP and VPN client/server components in Vista/Windows-7 and Win2K8 Server

Jan 2001 – Mar 2005 · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Jose, California, United States

• Worked on various technologies and protocols (VoIP, H.323, SIP) for their top selling products (Edge Routers, IP Phones, Cisco Unified Communications Manager).