Simar Arora❄️

Product Engineer

Dublin, California, United States8 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led cloud cost optimization projects, increasing management volume by 7x.
  • Developed a product for Azure and GCP, closing 5 clients.
  • Modernized risk assessment tools, providing $2M/month in extra capital.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinOps and SaaS expert with strong product management capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud Cost ManagementProduct ManagementSoftware DevelopmentFinancial Analysis

Other Skills

AWS LambdaAgile MethodologiesAlgorithm DesignAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsAutomated ReportingAzureAzure DevOpsAzure FunctionsBlockchainBlog WritingC++CanvaCloud ComputingCloud Cost Optimization

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Experience

Snowflake

Value Engineer - FinOps

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Dublin, California, United States · Hybrid

Blue cross and blue shield of illinois, montana, new mexico, oklahoma & texas

Senior FinOps Engineer

Jul 2023Jan 2024 · 6 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area · Remote

Cloudwiry, an apptio acquisition company

Senior FinOps Product Engineer

Apr 2019Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Led a team of 6 developers across India, Serbia, and the US on cloud cost optimization projects, thereby increasing the cloud cost under management volume for the firm by 7x over 2.5 years
  • Developed and delivered a new product to support cloud cost management capabilities to Azure and GCP customers. Closed 5 clients across several different industry verticals
  • Ideated on the prepayment management pain point in Azure and shipped it(0 to 1 and 1 to N), cutting infrastructure expense by 40% across Fortune-50 clients
  • Coordinated with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, QAs, and clients (Fortune-50s, mid-sized) to execute the product roadmap for a rightsizing product, improving infrastructure efficiency by 30%
  • Partnered with the VP of Engineering to architect, design, and implement stateless and serverless SaaS product, modernizing the firm’s application and improving developer productivity by 40%
  • Published 7 blogs, and 4 brochures in the Cloud-cost space, and represented Cloudwiry in AWS re: invent sales booth, boosting website traffic by 100% and bringing in 200 high-quality leads
Cloud Cost ManagementAzureGCPProduct ManagementTeam LeadershipCloud Cost Optimization+4

Goldman sachs

Software Analyst

Jul 2016Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Led a team of 3 to launch and integrate an automated reporting tool, reducing 400 annual hours of redundant work and linking $300k of savings for financial controllers from the New York office
  • Modeled the process constraints and designed a solution using linear optimization to fit funding models, providing extra trading capital of $2M/month for the New York trading desk
  • Collaborated with a team of 3 engineers and 2 finance controllers to modernize the secured funding risk calculator, retiring the legacy system and assessing risk related to $700M securities
  • Created technical screening rounds on problem-solving, to shortlist 100 interviewees of 3000 candidates
Automated ReportingLinear OptimizationRisk AssessmentTechnical ScreeningTeam CollaborationSoftware Development+1

Education

Cornell Tech

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Product Management

May 2022May 2023

National Institute of Technology Rourkela

Bachelor's degree

Jan 2012Jan 2016

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