Jun 2014 – Jan 2020 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

• Led the Product Development teams for Service Platform Team comprising about 350 engineers, building Global and India services and platforms for Personalization, Engagement and Monetization.
• Built a Programmatic Advertising Platform to support Performance, Video and Banner ads. Built and deployed an SSP integrating with multiple DSPs across more than 15 countries.
• Led the development for Samsung Pay which is Samsung's Mobile Pay solution. The platform supports credit card payments through MST. Services offered include p2p payments, gift cards, bill payments and Financial Marketplace
• Led the development of MyGalaxy which is an all-in-one service providing entertainment content and access to useful 3rd party services. Developed a curation algorithm to recommend trending videos.
• Led a data science initiative to predict user profile parameters such as age and parental status based on app usage and URL browse history and also enable segmentation
• Developed an Enhanced Search platform to support semantic search, dynamic category based faceting, relevance boosting and ranking using LTR. The platform is used for AppStore, Videos and eCommerce.
• Managed the Samsung Internet team developing a browser based on the Chromium engine and offering differentiated features.
• Launched the Finance Plus platform to offer consumers financing for device purchases. Supports instant credit approvals and allows phones to be used as collateral
• Led the DevOps team for various services of Samsung. Key functions include designing for high availability, performance at scale, capacity planning and Monitoring.
• Led the development of key components of the Bixby Voice Assistant service. The ASR and NLP were based on RNN and CNN respectively supporting thousands of concurrent users.
• Built an IoT platform to handle B2B and B2C use cases. Also built an eCommerce platform to provide comparison shopping and visual search experience to users.

Mar 2006 – May 2014 · 8 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore, India

• Manage Product Engineering teams totaling about 300 engineers, building global products in Media. These products generate over $200M in revenue for Yahoo. Key responsibilities and achievements include:
• Responsible for the technology strategy and development of all Entertainment sites in Yahoo globally. This included Movies, TV, OMG, Music, Lifestyle and Games. Most of these websites were within the top 3 in their categories in the US and other countries. Worked closely with Product Management to influence product strategy. Responsible for Desktop as well as HTML5 web apps for mobile.
• Drove innovation in the products through ideation and Hack Days.
• Responsible for the design and development of sections of the Global Sports and Finance.
• Led the re-engineering efforts for these products to leverage a new multi-tenant hosted platform using Yahoo’s private cloud based on Hadoop. The strategy was to develop re-usable modules that could be easily localized and enable rapid development of websites.
• Managed the development and maintenance of the flagship Yahoo Homepage world-wide. Led the team in instituting new features and Performance Improvements.
• Led the ground up development of the Yahoo cricket site which became the #1 sports site in India within 4 months after launch.
• Built a platform to ingest, process and enrich content on Yahoo’s Hadoop based Content Grid. This content is shared across all Media sites globally with content from over 4000 providers.
• Managed a team leveraging the Outsourced Product Development model to build and deploy Media sites globally. Over the last 2 years, this team has built over 200 Media websites worldwide.
• Lead a team that maintains the data services layer for Media properties. Reengineering the technology from JAPI based framework to one based on Storm and Redis achieving ten-fold improvement in response times.
• My teams have won the highest team award in Yahoo, the Superstar Award in 2010 and 2011

Dec 2002 – Mar 2006 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore, India

• Account Management and Head of Delivery for a large US based Banking and Retail Brokerage Company, which was the largest account in the Securities Vertical at Wipro.
• Worked closely with the client partner to achieve 30% YOY growth, increasing revenues to $27M and growing the team from 220 to 400 over a 2 ½ year period while maintaining a high Operating Margin.
• Developed Business Proposals including Turnkey Development projects and Managed Services Contracts.
• Developed and nurtured client relationships at the senior management level.
• Managed a portfolio of about 25 concurrent projects in the onsite-offshore Global Delivery Model. Achieved high customer satisfaction by ensuring adherence of deliverables to SLAs and expectations as well as Wipro Quality standards. Customer Satisfaction scores increased from 3.8 to 4.4 (on a scale of 5).
• Instituted processes for metrics collection and analysis and sharing of best practices. Pioneered the implementation of a Program Mgmt Office to drive process improvements.
• Responsible for Goal Setting, Mentoring, Appraisals, Career Development and Determining Compensation

Mar 2000 – Oct 2002 · 2 yrs 7 mos · New York, NY

• Managed the Professional Services practice for this leading eSourcing (buy-side), Inventory liquidation (sell-side), and Marketplace (exchanges) software solutions provider. Global customers (140+) include Target Stores, General Electric, Textron, Eastman Chemical, Caterpillar, Forest Express, Dragados, US Army and UK Government.
• Handled P/L responsibility and achieved over $13M in service bookings, with an overall annual revenue growth (2000 to 2002) of 20%. Won the Best Employee Award in 2001.
• Worldwide responsibility to support customers in the Americas and Europe. Successfully executed over 17 implementation projects on time and under budget and drove 100% referenceability.
• Started the team in New York from scratch and managed a distributed Professional Services organization (of 40+) located in San Francisco, New York and London.
• Developed Business Proposals based on ROI Analysis, Competitive Analysis, and Value Chain Analysis
• Negotiated Contracts and Statements of Work with potential clients and helped close deals.
• Oversaw System Integration projects with other ERP, Supply Chain and Middleware Applications such as SAP, Commerce One, WebLogic, Requisite and WebMethods
• Hands on involvement in the Requirements Analysis, Architecture and Delivery of projects
• As part of the Product Steering Committee, helped define product strategy and direction

May 1997 – Mar 2000 · 2 yrs 10 mos · New York, NY

• Senior Project Manager in the Real Estate Principal Investment Area (REPIA) Business Unit. Played a techno-functional role defining technology strategy and overseeing execution of multiple technology initiatives.
• Managed the design and implementation of a Financing and Hedging (including Derivatives such as Options, Futures and Swaps) System used for management, decision support and sensitivity analysis of a $21Billion loan portfolio and its related hedges to limit interest rate and currency exposures
• Managed the design and implementation of a Portfolio and Fund Management System that was used to produce Management Reports as well as compute performance measures for a $28Billion investment portfolio

Feb 1996 – May 1997 · 1 yr 3 mos · New York, NY

• Team Leader in the Risk Management Technology group of the Consumer Bank Treasury Department. Key responsibilities included Design and Development of Risk Management and Reporting and Compliance Systems. Also served as the DBA for the team. Technologies used include C++, Entera (Middleware), Unix, Oracle, PowerBuilder.

May 1995 – Feb 1996 · 9 mos · New York, NY

• Consultant involved in the Analysis, Design and Development of an Order Processing System for all International Shipments for a large package shipment client. Technologies used include Visual C++ and Oracle.

Jan 1993 – May 1995 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

• Led development teams in the design and development of critical components of a Billing and Work Order Management System for Cable TV Providers. Interacted extensively with clients to build, customize and deploy the product. Technologies used include C, Unix, Oracle