Oct 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• ThousandEyes got acquired by Cisco in 2020
• My responsibilities are:
• + Manage and Provide technical and strategic leadership to multiple software development teams under the Collective Intelligence (Internet Insights, Application Insights, BGP) org
• + Deliver product features under tight deadlines and resource constraints
• + Doing technical deep dives to enhance technical architecture and solutions for the next leg of scale
• + Grow, mentor, nurture and develop the engineering talent to the next level.
• + Work closely with the Product and UX to create and enhance the product features and usability
• + Collaborate and deliver cross team projects
• + Lead cross functional initiatives to have a bigger revenue and culture impact
• + Conceptualized, lead the implementation and won three hackday ideas and later released to production
• + Filed two patents related to the Internet Insights innovation work

Mar 2018 – Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Strategic and Technology Advisor at multiple startups
• Helping them in Product strategy, Vision, Organizational structure, and System design of the technical architecture to grow to the next level

Apr 2016 – Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• + Manage and provide technical leadership to the Yahoo Mail backend metadata and search data team
• + Hire, coach and mentor very smart engineers to help them grow in their career
• + Lead multiple complex cross team projects meeting tight deadlines keeping team morale high
• + Work with product team to come up with the next generation features and requirements
• + Leading and managing multiple teams, developing and rolling out multiple time critical high visibility projects coming out of GDPR mandate initiatives
• + Working on large scale distributed system to store metadata and search data both in HBase.
• + Designing, leading and developing several applications to process petabytes of data on daily basis keeping in mind the throughput, I/O, CPU, memory usage, GCs.
• + FluidMail - dynamic migration of mailboxes from one cluster to another using consistent hashing and incorporating clusters of various sizes

Jul 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Mountain View, CA

• As a Founding Engineer and the Director of Engineering, I wore multiple hats, including developing POCs, defining product roadmap, design, architect and developing various applications and successful rollout of many projects. I also was responsible for recruiting high quality talent, mentoring and managing them.
• Leadership responsibilities:
• + Meet the VPs and Directors of Marketing of our current and future clients and brainstorm with them to collect various enhancements to the product
• + Spearheading and championing various Engineering solutions for critical problems and convert these requirements to a product and then do hands-on design and development work.
• + Take ownership of triaging, prioritizing and resolution of various important bugs/ issues coming to Dev team from the field
• Design and Development projects:
• + Crawler and Fetcher and Custom and Configurable Content Parser
• + Authoring Framework with Related Contents Suggestion
• + User Activity Data Analytics
• + Page Serving Integration Architecture
• + Content Discovery Module to discover more relevant content
• + Natural Language Query engine to show data insights in user friendly manner
• + Data driven campaign optimization
• + Post Sales Integration and usage tracking
• + Form Abandonment Metric to optimize forms
• Technologies used:
• + 3rd party APIs (Salesforce, Marketo, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, AWS, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, MailGun).
• + Hadoop, Big Data, Amazon Web Services (AWS), EMR jobs, ElasticSearch
• + MySql, Cassandra, Redis cache

Aug 2006 – Jul 2013 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Redwood Shores, CA

• + Responsible for designing, developing, implementing and testing software applications using Oracle ADF business components including dashboard summary pages, drill down detail pages, charts, graphs, navigation and backend logic implemented in Java.
• + Mentor and guide software engineers and senior software engineers in the team across multiple countries.
• + Perform detailed design based on provided high level design specifications, assists in system planning, scheduling and implementation, builds enhancements (including new product features) and resolves bugs.
• + Designed and Coded a Patent Pending new approach for Unit testing for PLSQL APIs.

Jan 2006 – Aug 2006 · 7 mos · San Jose, CA

• + Led and managed a team of 4 developers for a high visibility project catering the reports for the senior management.
• + Formulated product specifications: gathered requirements, refined the Business requirement
• + Created and defined the metrics and developed the Technical Design Document.
• + Develop the dashboard pages with the reports and presentations in MS Power Point for the various review meetings.

Oct 2005 – Dec 2005 · 2 mos · Woodland Hills, CA

• + Led and managed a team of 3 developers
• + Gathered requirements, documented data analysis.
• + Developed personalized dashboard pages for dynamic drill down and navigation.

Jun 2005 – Oct 2005 · 4 mos · Milpitas, CA

• + Involved in requirements gathering, documented information data analysis.
• + Created dashboard pages for dynamic drill down and navigation.

Aug 2004 – May 2005 · 9 mos · Fairless Hills, PA

• + Worked on core algorithms development for embedded refrigeration cycle diagnostics and coding the algorithms in C++.
• + Worked on report development using Crystal reports.

Aug 2003 – Jul 2004 · 11 mos · College Station, TX

• + Implemented Localization of multiple robots based on fuzzy logic using MATLAB
• + Implemented image processing modules for single robot localization using surrounding image taken by a camera with reflection from a spherical mirror using MATLAB
• + Developed a gadget for a blind student to locate important objects.

Jul 2001 – Aug 2002 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hydrabad, India

• Design, develop and maintain the secure web application server for the website of the Investor Relations group of the firm using Java as language.

May 2000 – Jul 2000 · 2 mos · Hydrabad, India

• + Gait study and planning of a biped, quadrapod, hexapod and octapod robots.
• + Efficiency study of the robots walking strategies. Gravitational decoupling of the robots when running

May 1999 – Jul 1999 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• + Developed and implemented algoriths for Image Analysis and signature assignment to 3D objects
• + Developed and implemented path finding algorithms in 3-D space for a six degree of freedom.

Mar 1999 – Sep 2000 · 1 yr 6 mos · Guwahati, Assam, India

• Founded Techniche in 1999. Humbled to see where it is now! Kudos to my amazing batchmates and juniors who worked extremely hard and with so much dedication in 1999 along with me. Without their hard work and support we woudn't have started Techniche. Also thanks to all the students who came after us and took the festival to yet another level!
• Read about how it was started:
• https://yourdost.com/blog/2015/03/it-is-possible.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kak_bWzWlNs