Viraj Churi

Engineering Manager

San Francisco, California, United States15 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led geographically distributed teams across multiple countries.
  • Experience in both large corporations and startups.
  • Expertise in engineering leadership and system design.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer with strong leadership in SaaS environments.

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ASPAlgorithmsAndroid DevelopmentBusiness Process ManagementCC++ClojureData StructuresDatabase SystemsEclipseGithubGrailsGroovyHadoopHibernate

About

• Experienced engineering leader with a strong entrepreneurial approach. Currently leading (and growing) geographically distributed teams of 17+ engineers spread across 4 countries and in 3 different time zones • Having the experience of both the worlds - big companies and startups, I understand the importance of moving fast but also have an eye for the processes that enable a team to move consistently and predictably • Playing the dual role of Technical Lead and Engineering Manager • Learning nuances of Engineering leadership and harnessing my System Design and Architecture skills.

Experience

Roblox

Engineering Manager

Aug 2022Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Mateo, California, United States

  • Leading Partner Foundation team that makes enriched metaverse experiences available across different platforms

Opentable

4 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2022Aug 2022 · 5 mos

  • Lead 3 engineering teams of 16+ engineers working in the areas of Sales and Onboarding
  • Worked with Engineering Managers, Tech Leads as well as cross-functional partners from Product, Design, Marketing, and Sales to set long-term strategy and roadmap for my teams
  • Hired and grown teams across offices in Us, Mexico, Lithuania, and India
  • Worked with engineers to set short-term and long-term career goals and create an action plan to
  • achieve them

Engineering Manager

Jan 2020Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Played dual role of a Tech Lead and Engineering Manager. Worked with senior engineers to set up technology roadmap, and also provided hands-on technical management, guidance, and support
  • Worked with cross-functional partners, including product, design, and business stakeholders(sales and marketing), to set and track the team’s quarterly and sprint goals.
  • Built a team of 10+ senior engineers(10+ avg YOE) from scratch. Hired a mix of senior engineers as well as fresh college graduates and guided them through the onboarding process
  • Groomed senior engineers to take up responsibilities of Tech Lead and to lead small teams/projects

Technical Lead

Nov 2017Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Led backend development for a team that managed high-volume, low-latency business-critical services handling restaurant data, users, permissions, authentication, and lifecycle
  • Conceptualized and built multiple services and modules from scratch. These services are now essential parts of our tech stack
  • Organized and led L&D initiative to introduce backend engineers to reactive programming and discuss best practices. This workshop saw participation from 15+ engineers and resulted in better adoption of this new paradigm and various improvements to our existing reactive services

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2015Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Member of the payments team that came into existence through Opentable’s acquisition of a payments startup in Mumbai
  • With a slim team and startup approach, I got the opportunity to develop various components of end-to-end integrated payments solution, including front-end apps, backend services, plugins on different POS(Point of Sale) systems, and even a data mining/analytics module
  • Won hackathon by prototyping end-to-end solution for food delivery. Part of this solution is currently used in the production

Bankbazaar.com

2 roles

Senior Software Design Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2014Jan 2015 · 5 mos

  • BankBazaar.com is the world's first neutral online marketplace for instant
  • customized rate quotes on loans and credit cards. I joined BankBazaar when it was a small start-up with less than a 20 member strong engineering team. I was part of Bankbazaar's rapid growth story, which saw its engineering team growing 5X and valuation increasing to 10X in less than three years.
  • Led a small team of 4 engineers to develop integrations with backend systems of leading financial institutions in India

Software Design Engineer

Jul 2012Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Developed a Cross-platform mobile application for bankers to search for loan offers and log loan leads from any mobile or tablet device
  • Developed document upload module, which allows end-users to capture and upload documents using any mobile device
  • Worked on scraping module, which facilitates automated scraping of bank statements from all leading banks in India
  • Worked as a release manager to handle the week-long release cycle to push the latest features and bug fixes to production
  • Worked on a warehouse module that consolidates real-time application data to generate OLAP data.
  • Worked on notification module, which is responsible for all EMAIL and SMS communication

Indian institute of technology, bombay

Teaching Assistant

Jul 2010Jul 2012 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Area, India

Tata consultancy services

Assistant System Engineer

Dec 2008Jul 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Awarded Top Performer among more than 700 employees during the Initial Learning Phase (ILP)
  • Developed a Business Process Management (BPM) application to streamline the various processes involved in the Manifest creation stage of a shipment for a leading shipping company in the world
  • Lead a team of 3 to implement crucial business requirement successfully. Received accolades from the client and higher management for the same

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Master of Technology - MTech — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2012

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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