Shariq Hashmi

CEO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India20 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

20+ years driving transformational outcomes in technology.
Achieved 75% cost optimization and 99.8% platform reliability.
Maintained 100% team retention for three consecutive years.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and EdTech expert with a strong focus on engineering leadership and operational excellence.

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Organizaional LeadershipEngineering ManagementProject ManagementEngineering Leadership

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AIAWSAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAzureChange ManagementCommunicationCore JavaData StructuresDistributed SystemsEclipseJUnitJavaLinuxProblem Solving

About

Distinguished technology executive with 20+ years driving transformational outcomes across Fortune 500 and high-growth companies. Expert in architecting and scaling enterprise cloud infrastructure, AI-powered platforms, and global engineering organizations of 50+ members. Strategic leader with proven ability to align technology investments with business imperatives, delivering measurable impact: managed $250M revenue-generating product, achieved 75% cost optimization, improved platform reliability to 99.8% success rate, and maintained industry-leading 100% team retention for three consecutive years. Champion of engineering excellence, operational resilience, and building cultures of innovation that attract and retain top-tier talent. Core Expertise Area -- Define and execute multi year product roadmap. -- Provide architectural vision to product. Evaluating technology stacks and choosing on the best solution. -- Developing highly scalable, distributed systems, high throughput and low latency systems -- Setting up product organization from scratch and take them to next level. -- Attracting, hiring, leading and retaining best of the talent including senior leaders -- Mentoring and skill development of engineers, (Sr) engineering managers to enhance career

Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Principal Group Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

Orchestrated strategic AI integration roadmap across Liftr partner ecosystem, delivering enterprise-grade capabilities through AI Foundry and GHCP—positioning MCP-based knowledge solutions (Elasticsearch, MongoDB) for flagship Ignite 2025 launch
3X platform scalability transformation, enabling 1.5 PB log ingestion capacity while maintaining enterprise-grade SLA commitments and system resiliency. 75% cost optimization, reducing Liftr Observability platform operational expenses annually through architectural improvements and resource optimization
Served as Division Talent Acquisition Leader, executing comprehensive recruitment strategy resulting in 20+ strategic hires, strengthening organizational capabilities and competitive positioning
Drove team growth through strategic charter expansion into Engineering Productivity and AI Integration domains, establishing new centers of excellence
Achieved industry-leading 100% team retention rate for three consecutive years, building high-performance culture focused on innovation, growth and customer centricity.

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Principal Engineering Manager

Sep 2021 – Sep 2023 · 2 yrs

Established and scaled India engineering hub from ground zero to high-performing 13-member cross-functional team, architecting seamless global collaboration model across geographies and time zones
Led end-to-end ownership of Azure Cache for Redis Control Plane ($250M revenue product); delivered architectural transformation achieving 5X peak capacity—enabling strategic enterprise features including AAD Data Plane integration and E5 SKU (announced Build '23)
Drove operational excellence transformation: improved platform creation success rate from 97.5% to 99.8%, reduced daily incidents by 44% (16→9), and accelerated Mean Time to Detect from 60min to 10min while improving MTTR from 36hrs to 24hrs
Established global operational excellence through "follow-the-sun" DRI model and comprehensive Business Continuity Planning, ensuring zero-downtime delivery of mission-critical features
Cultivated strategic partnerships driving product-market expansion, serving as primary engineering executive for Walmart, SharePoint Online, and Myntra—multi-million dollar accounts
Executive sponsor for Diversity & Inclusion initiatives across 250+ person division, establishing inclusive hiring practices and cultural transformation programs

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Fundoo learning

Founder

Mar 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

Fundoolearning is an assessment platform for aspirants. Aspirants can assess their preparation and get pointed feedback on strengths and area of improvements along with potential rank they can achieve.
Lead technology and product development. Leveraged AWS for backend deployment.
Created a team of assessment content creators for K-12 topics
Added more than 3600 assessment questions
Monthly 100+ new user acquisition with 0 marketing spend

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Flipkart

Senior Engineering Manager

May 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering co-driver for Retail as a Platform (RAAS) initiative, transforming 50%+ of Flipkart's retail inventory management—establishing new business vertical and revenue stream
Built and scaled 40+ member engineering organization from inception, including architects and managers; delivered 30% operational efficiency improvement in vendor payouts and warehouse operations, translating to significant cost savings

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Indeed.com

Software Development Manager

Oct 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Responsible system architecture, product roadmap and attracting, growing and retaining best of the talent for Marketing Automation Platform.
Lead cross functional team consisting of engineers, product managers, QAs and Data Scientist spread across 3 different geographies.
MAP enables Indeed’s marketers to seamlessly execute Search Engine and Email marketing, measure and attribute the campaign performance.
Introduced a new Email Marketing Platform enabling marketers to build target audiences, run campaigns, measure performance and pass leads to sales teams.
improved team’s efficiency from 23 day Delivery Lead Time(DLT) to 11 day DLT.

Organizaional LeadershipProject ManagementProblem SolvingEngineering ManagementCommunicationEngineering Leadership+2

Expedia group

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

Architected and delivered enterprise-scale, real-time fraud detection platform processing billions of transactions across Expedia's global brand portfolio—protecting millions in annual revenue
Engineered distributed Key Value Store and Velocity services achieving sub-50ms latency at massive scale, enabling real-time risk decisioning across payment ecosystem
Scaled engineering organization 17X (3→50 engineers) over 2.5 years, establishing technical leadership structure and directly managing 18-member core team

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Software Development Engineer III

Oct 2016 – Feb 2017 · 4 mos

Architected multi-brand coupon creation and redemption platform supporting Expedia's global merchandising strategy and promotional campaigns
Delivered advanced analytics and anomaly detection systems with automated containment protocols, preventing promotional abuse and protecting margin integrity
Implemented real-time monitoring and intelligent alerting infrastructure, enabling proactive risk management at enterprise scale

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Software Development Engineer - II

Dec 2012 – Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Founding engineer on strategic identity unification platform, creating graph-based relationship intelligence across Expedia's fragmented identity ecosystem—unlocking customer insights and personalization opportunities
Architected event-driven SEDA framework leveraging RabbitMQ and Cassandra, enabling real-time identity resolution across disparate systems
Delivered core platform capabilities from conceptualization through production deployment, establishing technical patterns adopted company-wide

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