Garima Bhatia

Director of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States21 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Scaled engineering teams from 40 to 100+ engineers.
Increased mobile app usage share from 10% to 27%.
Improved App Store rankings significantly.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic engineering leader in SaaS and Travel Tech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Strategic LeadershipPlatform ArchitectureMobile App EngineeringCross-functional EngineeringProduct Roadmap DefinitionTechnology Solutions

Other Skills

Change ManagementCross-functional CollaborationsCross-functional alignmentCross-functional collaborationCustomer EngagementEngineering ExcellenceExecutive Stakeholder ManagementGlobal TeamsMentoringMobile platform strategyOperational ExcellenceOptimizationPeople DevelopmentPeople ManagementRequirement Gathering

About

Strategic engineering leader with 20+ years scaling high-impact technology organizations across mobile, backend, and full-stack platforms for B2C and B2B businesses.

Experience

Workday

Director of Software Engineering, AI & Experience Technology

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Pleasanton, California, United States

Strategic Leader in the AI & Experience Org, scaled global engineering organization from 40 to 100+ engineers through strategic hiring and operational excellence, that helped drive Workday’s Mobile App usage share to grow from 10% to 27%
Elevated mobile to a strategic competitive advantage in Retail through cross-functional collaboration
Defining and driving workday’s AI Experience Strategy for Mobile Applications
Developed and executed Mobile platform strategy that closed critical functionality gaps and delivered measurable improvements in product capabilities across stakeholders

Strategic LeadershipPeople ManagementOperational ExcellenceCross-functional CollaborationsPlatform Architecture

Expedia group

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager @ Hotwire

Nov 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

Led Hotwire's mobile app engineering, improving App Store rankings from ~70 to ~30 while establishing mobile-first standards
Grew mobile transaction share from 20% to over 50% through optimization and cross-functional alignment

Cross-functional CollaborationsMobile App EngineeringOptimization

Engineering Manager

Apr 2016 – Nov 2020 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Led multiple cross-functional engineering teams across backend, frontend, and mobile driving strategic initiatives with product, analytics, and design
As India lead for the Checkout and Trips Engineering Teams build and scaled the function in the India office

Cross-functional EngineeringStrategic InitiativesTeam Leadership

Guavus

Manager Engineering (PM), Guavus Reflex Platform Team

Dec 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

Defining and charting the roadmap for the most critical pieces of the Reflex Platform, which is the base platform for all of the Guavus' technology solutions.
Over the last one year, was one of the key members responsible for envisaging and ensuring smooth implementation, delivery and company-wide adoption of the next-gen Reflex platform based Apache Spark
Responsibilities include Product Roadmap definition, Product Specification, Requirement Gathering, Customer Engagement, Release planning, tracking etc.

Product Roadmap DefinitionRequirement GatheringCustomer Engagement

Makemytrip.com

2 roles

Sr. Manager, Technology

Promoted

Apr 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos

Delivering technology solutions to complex business problems by building, mentoring and motivating high performance teams.
Experience across different businesses including International Air, Packages, Bus and Rails.

Technology SolutionsTeam BuildingMentoring