Macrina Swetha Dsouza

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 9 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 18 years of experience in engineering management
  • Led global teams to improve data accuracy over 99%
  • Advocate for Women-in-Tech and diverse talent
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Engineering Manager in SaaS and Telecommunications, specializing in data engineering and network automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringDevopsData AnalyticsCloud EngineeringNetwork AutomationSoftware Development

Other Skills

AnalyticsAutomationBackendBigQueryBroadbandCClearCaseData StructuresDatalakeDebuggingDockerDocker ProductsDynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)Embedded LinuxF5

About

I’m an Engineering Manager with 18 years of experience leading and growing high-performing engineering teams at Walmart and Cisco. Over my career, I’ve managed global teams of 9–25 engineers working across backend, automation, and DevOps. I’ve spearheaded efforts to build modern data pipelines, improve data quality and accuracy, and deliver reliability and performance enhancements at scale, all to improve customer outcomes. My leadership philosophy centers on people-first mentoring, designing scalable architectures, and ensuring the technical work tightly supports business objectives. My technical strengths include cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, event-driven design, backend API development, embracing modern technology stacks and AI all grounded in collaboration and a commitment to engineering excellence. Today, I’m focused on developing enterprise-grade, distributed security frameworks that strengthen our security posture, improve efficiency, and safeguard data for global clients. I’m passionate about creating inclusive engineering cultures empowering teams to innovate, deliver impactful results, and grow professionally. As a Women-in-Tech advocate and mentor, I’m committed to supporting diverse talent and building high-impact teams. I thrive on simplifying complexity, thoughtfully scaling systems, and enabling engineers to excel. <Exploring New opportunities>

Experience

Walmart global tech

Senior Engineering Manager

Nov 2021Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • I have managed teams of 9–25 engineers(global teams) across Backend, Automation, DevOps, driving AI initiatives that improved reliability, performance, and customer outcomes at scale, Modern Data Pipeline development
  • Teams:
  • Workforce Enablement Team
  • Leading data engineering and analytics platform team, building next gen data pipelines( batch and streaming)
  • Also ensuring data accuracy with data governance, implemented data reconciliation, data quality.
  • Achieved > 99% data accuracy through Engineering excellence and Operational excellence
  • Drove the team and project with product mindset and aligned the delivery with buisness OKRs
  • Kafka | Datalake | Spark | HUDI | Data Analytics | BigQuery | Gen AI
  • Traffic Foundation team
  • Working on Web Technologies, Leading high performing engineers who work on CDN , Asset Optimisation, Edge solution engineering, Cloud and physical F5 team
BackendAutomationDevOpsData EngineeringData AnalyticsKafka+5

Cisco

Leader

Jan 2013Nov 2021 · 8 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

  • Cisco Architecture team - working on Cisco’s Network Automation & Analytics suite of Products like Crosswork Network controller,Change Automation and Health Insight,Crosswork Data Gateway,SR-PCE
  • Managed multiple teams on many projects and Leading multiple initiatives.
  • Software engineer with CSM & CCNA certifications
  • Development:
  • I was involved in development of several features for Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) and Intelligent Service Gateway (ISG) products of ASR9k and ASR1k.
  • Features:
  • To Increase the subscriber scale by 2x for ASR1k ISG
  • AAA,RADIUS,SSS-ISG ASR1K
  • ISSU for dhcpv6d-ASR9K
  • Multiple options support for dhcpv6d-IOS XR,ASR9K
  • handling multiple customer issues,MW,queries and several triages in dhcp area
  • Worked on few customer Escalations on BNG
  • Lead various initiatives independently
  • Programming languages:C,Python
  • knowledge of Python Flask,Docker,github,RESTful API's,Kafka, kubernetes
CPythonNetwork AutomationAnalyticsRESTful APIsDocker+3

Aricent technologies

Engineer

May 2010Jan 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos

L&t technology services limited

Engineer

Jul 2006May 2010 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

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