Preethi N.

Director of Engineering

United States14 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven leader in Trust and Safety engineering.
Expert in full stack development and platform management.
Successful track record in regulatory compliance initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong leadership in Trust and Safety engineering.

Contact

preethinagashree@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipFull Stack DevelopmentTrustComplianceMarketplace Platform Development

Other Skills

ASP.NETAccountabilityAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAuditing and reportingCareer ManagementCommunicationContinuous IntegrationCore JavaData StructuresData integrationEclipseEmber.jsFeature developmentIVR

About

With a robust background at LinkedIn, leadership has been central to my journey, particularly in the Trust domain, where leading a team of diverse engineers has honed my expertise in transformational management. My tenure has been defined by scaling high-performance teams and fostering a culture of quality and customer excellence. We've achieved success by driving process and organizational optimizations, always seeking out the next challenge to elevate our work. The engineering excellence I've brought to LinkedIn extends from a deep understanding of Trust, eCommerce, and enterprise applications. In collaboration with my team, we've innovated product features and engineered systems, focusing on full stack development and platform management. Our collective efforts have not only advanced the Trust aspect of LinkedIn's platform but also ensured a secure and reliable user experience.

Experience

14 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 3 mos

Current Experience

Strava

Director of Engineering, Head of Trust and Safety and Identity

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · On-site

As the Director of Engineering at Strava, I lead multiple Trust Engineering teams, each of which focusses on the following areas
Trust Experiences: Builds T&S Experiences: Reporting, Trust Comms, Appeals
Anti-Abuse Infra: AI driven Platforms and Solutions to combat abuse
Trust Tools: Tools and backend systems to moderate content and entities and or bulk actioning to ensure moderator effectiveness and decisioning

2 roles

Senior Engineering leader - Linkedin Trust

Promoted

Sep 2021 – Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

Leadership
Currently leading a team of Frontend, backend and full stack engineers
Transformational management career marked by a record of bootstrapping high performance teams
Strong leadership presence that allows for instant credibility across the organization including employees, customers and stakeholders
Change agent who seeks challenges to evolve process & organizational optimizations
Hands on leader with past experience in managing cross location engineering teams with keen Product management acumen
Experience in Trust domain - Experiences and Platform
Engineering Excellence
Good knowledge and understanding of Trust/eCommerce/ enterprise applications
Success in leading full stack development teams & platform teams
Proven ability to innovate on product features and engineering systems
Strong focus on quality & customer excellence
Product Launches
Trust Transparency : Transparency experiences to support Linkedin's Trust - Reporting, Trust Comms and Member appeals
DSA Compliance: Launched 40+ features to comply to EU's Digital services Act
Specialties: Software development, Engineering management, Continuous Integration, E Commerce, Enterprise Software, Risk management and compliance, Agile Methodologies, Product Management, Risk and Compliance

LeadershipTransformational managementFull stack developmentPlatform managementQuality and customer excellenceProcess optimization+1

Engineering Leadership and Senior IC Roles

Sep 2013 – Jun 2021 · 7 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Over the course of years, I worked in various organizations (LinkedIn Growth, Monetization, and Trust). Over the course of 5 years, moved from SWE-> SrSWE-> Staff->Engineering manager

Shutterfly, inc.

Senior Software Engineer, Cards and Stationery Team

Feb 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Redwood City

Flipkart

Senior Software Engineer, Marketplace Platform

Dec 2012 – Nov 2013 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Ideated flipkart's seller platform which enables customer administration, invoicing, and collections. • Integrated auditing and reporting - This integration successfully reduced redundant data entries, accounting errors, and book-closing time from 15 days to 5 days.

Seller platform ideationData integrationAuditing and reportingMarketplace platform development