Mar 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

• Owned Revenue Computation Platform within Finance Engineering – core accounting platform for Uber across all business lines at trip scale
• Key enabler for Uber IPO and SOX compliance
• The Engineering system was critical to financial reporting for Uber.
• Manage multiple platform teams as manager of managers which enable Uber to determine across all businesses the Revenue, COGS, Incentives, accruals
• Build mission, charter & roadmap for the team with impact/collaboration across geographies, sites, functional organisations.
• Grew team from 3 to more than 30 engineers. Hired multiple managers and senior architects within team. Promoted >10 engineers to next level across seniority levels
• Demonstrated impact by proven track record of launching key products and initiatives enabling efficiencies and saving money for Uber via scaled platforms for accounting processes, Financial Planning.

Jan 2017 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

• Was part of the Value Added Services team – charter is to create world’s largest services marketplace.
• Owned end-to-end responsibility for the Seller-side/Supply code stack.
• Enabled the VAS launch in Europe (UK & Germany) – Launched some critical features along with the launch.
• Drove innovation in processes and development practices to stabilize and harden the Seller side stack.
• Have grown the team from 5 engineers to 13 engineers.

Feb 2013 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Owned end-to-end responsibility of assigned products from concept to delivery stages, critical in overcoming challenging situations to deliver products entailing a paradigm shift of philosophy and culture.
• Engineering Lead for the new product (RealPresence WebSuite), expected to be the center stage for content & collaboration space for Polycom
• Drove multiple cross-functional resources to drive development & delivery incl. cross geo engineers
• Played a stellar role in spearheading initiatives in the relatively newer space of content sharing & collaboration, working towards bringing around a paradigm shift in the concept of 'meetings'
• Collaborated with the beta users and ensuring uniform & satisfactory experience across all formats including mobile, tablets and desktop.
• Product won “Best Data Collaboration tool” award in Infocomm, 2015
• Initiated tenure with the responsibility of the newly initiated Platform Director™ product
• Came in at a time when the situation was grim owing to lack of clarity and no major buy-in among the internal as well as external stakeholders. Gathered extensive understanding by mapping the customer needs & preferences and collaborated with cross-functional resources to come up with the architecture
• Conducted an extremely successful internal prototype demo, receiving appreciation and subsequent encouragement from internal as well as external teams
• Supported demonstration of product in Annual Polycom event & subsequently went GA, having been pivotal in entire process involving extensive people engagement & communication

Mar 2007 – Oct 2012 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore, India

• Engineering / People / Program management of Dell Server and Client Systems management software products.
• Coordinate with the marketing team to understand customer requirements, and contribute in designing and developing new products and features
• Participate in all product pre-launches, gather and assimilate user feedback, and lead the team in incorporating further improvements in the product
• Drive innovation in products and processes to improve customer experience as well as to reduce the cost of execution
• Evangelize Agile Methodology within team and organization

Jan 2006 – Feb 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore, India

• Handled engineering management for the software activities ATCA-C110, PrAMC7201 and the MicroTCA PrAMC6201 blades including people/program management
• Liaised with the marketing team to understand customer requirements, and contributed in developing new products and features
• Participated in all product pre-launches, and utilized user feedback for further improving the product offering
• Spearheaded the development of Firmware, Linux (LSP), Basic Blade Services
• Coordinated with authorities and facilitated in obtaining the Monta Vista certification for the company
• Contributed in product innovation and development

Apr 2004 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore, India

• Responsible for 3 programs; developed a project plan to execute professional services engagements
• Engaged with customers alogn with marketing for PreSales engagements as well as final deal closure.
• Contributed in building the team and developing all processes as one of the 1st team member
• Coordinated with the architecture team to understand and freeze the correct feature set and the associated efforts involved
• Managed the DM3 PSTN firmware for SR6.1 and IPLink releases; supported the team in standardizing the MCPD C/C++ coding guidelines
• Participated in the Open Source Linux project to transition MCPD telecom software to be independent of Linux kernel and other third party software

Mar 2001 – Mar 2004 · 3 yrs

• Owned and designed SW stack including real time OS, hardware abstraction library, OS abstraction services, call processing and systems management
• Handled a techno managerial role and was responsible for Software Architecture and Implementation.
• Responsible for entire SW architecture for the Access Network suite of products.
• Streamlined customer needs with business needs to facilitate improvements in product development and customer satisfaction

Jul 1997 – Feb 2001 · 3 yrs 7 mos