Jan 2018 – Sep 2018 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Oath as a company is now fully GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliant, and this was made possible in 143 days with a team of ~165+ people working across Oath. I led this program from engineering, design, business, legal and partner perspective. This program was managed across 16 brands [Aol, Yahoo, TechCrunch, Huff Post, Makers, Build, Tumblr etc.]100+ apps, thousands of different webpages and devices.
• My responsibilities include
• Conceptualizing and executing the Go to Market strategy
• Building a scalable and centralized service on AWS infrastructure that would serve across all brands
• Managing 3 War rooms, ~165+ engineers, 143 days around the clock
• Build a system of unparalleled scale hosted on AWS that feeds data into Oath Grid for analytics
• Working with European legal team to build consent workflow that is legally binding and not violating the GDPR principles
• User testing across various European user segments to validate less intrusive flows
• Building revenue projections by collaborating with finance team based on FLAOT model
• Measuring DAU drops, Traffic and PV drops post GDPR launch and coming up with strategies to reduce the impact
• Daily updates to CTO and CEO/President of Oath. Occasionally presenting the data to keep them informed about the progress

May 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Helping Salesforce to achieve their 3:3:3 goal by 2018. Historically Salesforce has built their cloud infrastructure in legacy technologies and has expanded exponentially over time. It is no more scalable for the modern times. This requires a disruptive approach to the entire process, technologies, and culture to win this game. I am fortunate enough to have that opportunity to drive that change within Infrastructure organization and build a fully ready data centers in less than 8 weeks compared to 9 months in the past.
• Current engagements:
• ¥ Collaborate with senior executives in Salesforce strategy and how it translates to specific product roadmap initiatives.
• ¥ Providing guidance and leadership to focus on rapid iteration and frequent deployments through automation.
• ¥ Collecting and understanding customer feedback and effectively translate into both business and technical product insights and iterations.
• ¥ By Leveraging insights to highlighted product gaps, my job is to identify growth opportunities and drive execution of growth initiatives with internal product teams.
• ¥ Collaborating with cross-functional teams to launch new cloud infrastructure (Sandbox and Leading edge Pods) and features, ultimately driving adoption of key growth initiatives
• ¥ Develop S.M.A.R.T action plans for building tools and automation to increase execution velocity, driving and measuring adoption over time.
• ¥ Driving Product/technology retrospections and communicate findings and recommendations clearly to internal stakeholders.
• ¥ Leading process improvements across infrastructure organization by optimizing it for speed, less wastage, and high ROI.
• ¥ Working with various teams inside the company at a strategic level to evangelize the new way of building cloud infrastructure.
• ¥ Running a pilot program to validate all assumptions and fine-tune this program.
• ¥ Building trust, passion, and commitment to the culture of the team.
• ¥ Managing a program management team.

Nov 2013 – May 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Sunnyvale, California

• Managing a one billion dollar business for Search & Market connection. As a group program lead for Search and Market connection, my responsibilities span from running horizontal initiatives, managing
• product roadmaps, Implementing best process, practices and tools across Search and Market connection.
• Current engagements:
• Yahoo Spin-off: Heading the tech Spin-off of Yahoo Small Business along with Alibaba shares to form a separate entity: Separating out 18 Year old products from Yahoo’s DNA out to open source technologies and data centers.
• Driving operational excellence across Search engineering teams by enabling continuous integration and continuous delivery: Enabling all features/code/fixes to go LIVE daily, improved efficiency by 100%.
• JIRA rollout across Search and Market connections: Combining the power of agile project management with defect management into one tool helped us focus and deliver faster.
• Managing CAPEX and OPEX for Search: There is always need for more H/W and resources to execute projects. This was managed through tech/architecture council on a weekly basis.
• Some core initiatives under my leadership
• Secure Search: A two-quarter long, 20,000 person hours job to secure Yahoo search products by migrating it to SSL enabled sites.
• Yahoo Gemini- A self served ad platform for search/native ads; Led a technical team who built the scalable platform that does content serving for Yahoo Gemini.
• Various process improvements across Search organization like, bug clean ups, vulnerability verifications, code review habits, business continuity planning and disaster recovery.
• Managed site improvements and performance optimizations to increase the time spent and PVs by 5% YoY.

Nov 2008 – Sep 2013 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

• Managing a ~$300 million dollar Yahoo! Media business and growing by launching and maintaining Yahoo! Media Products (Movies, Music, TV, OMG, Lifestyles, Weather, News, Finance, Sports etc..) to different markets such as Americas, LATAM , Europe, Middle East and Asia regions in 2011- 2012.
• Managed Technical Program Management and Operational Excellence (OE), with a team of 9 technical Program Managers
• Leadership position at the India Development Center (IDC) that caters to Global Software Product Development and has a team of 100+ software engineers, Technical Leads, Product Specialists, Subject matter experts, and Managers.
• Shipping quality software from ideation/concept through design, development, testing and delivery
• Program Management - Responsible for Roadmap, Strategic Planning, Operational Planning, execution of software engineering programs, issue management, cross vertical dependency management, project management reviews, Innovation and resource management - across
• multiple product lines in the Internet Software Product Development space of Yahoo!
• Quality of delivery, scope and release schedule adherence, cost management
• Employee engagement, Talent acquisition, coaching & mentoring and development
• Defining the Operational strategy and strategic objectives of the Product lines and business units
• and own its rollouts
• Budget Management
• Some core initiatives under my leadership
• I have managed global product development for Yahoo Media products like OMG, Lifestyle, Sports,
• News, and Finance for 18 countries by launching 135 global sites in 16 months.
• A 15 years old Yahoo brand had to be changed in 45 days across 300+ products and a million locations across these products with high confidentiality.

May 2007 – Nov 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

• Sales & Marketing –Home and home office products :
• S&M program aims at collecting marketing requirements from different markets, prioritize, plan, execute and deliver marketing campaigns through mailers, software updates to direct (B2C) and partner websites.
• McAfee Beta Website Infrastructure development :
• This program is designed to create a brand new Beta website for all consumer Beta products for McAfee. The program was successful and Beta website is live with highest quality.( www.beta.mcafee.com )
• McAfee Web Infrastructure Migration to .Net 3.x :
• This program involves the migration of the current web Infrastructure for all consumer websites including direct and partner websites for McAfee to .Net technology.

Jan 2005 – May 2007 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Chennai

• KLA-Tencor Corporation is the world's leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related microelectronics industries.
• Programs Handled -
• Value Added Software Services Program.
• Beta Program Management for Spectra Fx1000.
• iDM(Integrated Diagnostic Monitoring)/ iSupport Development & Maintenance
• Diagnostics & Calibration

Oct 2004 – Jan 2005 · 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Aug 2003 – Oct 2004 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Jan 1998 – Jan 2003 · 5 yrs · Chennai Area, India, SUNNYVALE, US