Shwetha Thammaiah

Engineering Manager

Denmark15 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams delivering 900k deployments weekly.
  • Improved platform stability from 41% to 97% in one year.
  • Integrated WhatsApp with GoPay for seamless fund transfers.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Software Engineering leader with expertise in team management and project delivery.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProject ManagementMicroservicesJavaSoftware DevelopmentAndroid Development

Other Skills

AJAXASP.NETAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaC#CommunicationDocker ProductsEclipseJMeterJava Enterprise EditionLeadershipLinuxMySQLNeo4j

Experience

Uber

Engineering Manager

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Denmark · On-site

  • Engineering manager leading multiple platform teams responsible for over 900k deployment operations per week at Uber. The team plays a critical role in keeping Uber up and running.
  • Strong technical and delivery background, experience building highly performant engineering teams that deliver clear business impact. Performed data driven analysis, surfacing ~500k alert misconfigurations, enabling quicker detection of incidents, reducing scope, level and impact.
  • High degree of ownership and accountability towards technical and business outcomes of the team. Enabled safe deployment of critical streaming services that power Uber's core business i.e rides and food delivery to the standardised deployment platform. Support for granular lockdown of critical deployment systems in the event of an outage.
  • Partners with stakeholders, senior engineer, product across wider engineering organisation to deliver cross team initiatives with large scope.
  • Supports, coaches and develops engineers through their career with regular 1:1s, clear expectations, and continuous feedback.
LeadershipStakeholder ManagementCommunicationTeam BuildingProject ManagementProject Delivery+1

Nubank

Engineering Manager

Jul 2020Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Berlin, Germany

  • Managed multiple teams of software, data, and analytical engineers in Nubank's Data platform to execute project plans and delivery commitments.
  • Established scope, directed short-and long-term goals, drove OKRs, KPIs, and delivered business-critical and high-impact features in the platform.
  • Interfaced with business teams, product, operations and program management ensuring that SLAs and SLOs were continually achieved. Involved in solving crashes, performed production support, ensured high uptime of the platform. Accountable for business and operational support and metrics for my business area.
  • Managed cross-functional dependencies, risks, and changes effectively by optimizing and protecting scope, schedule, and resources.
  • Supported and mentored my team to continuously learn, develop, and challenge themselves.
  • Established a collaborative work culture, enabled teams to adopt engineering best practices.
  • Participated in technical analysis and design, solutions, whiteboarding, reviewing RFCs, aiding team by putting a structured decision-making process into action
  • Improved failure recovery, self-healing, and automation of failures in the ETL platform. In July 2021, the number of pages sent to on-call engineers was reduced by 36% or 168 pages (including 59% - 117 pages - reduction in Sep 2021). Of note, 74% (124) of all pages avoided would have occurred outside of normal business hours for the team.
  • Improved the stability and landing times of business-critical processes leading a task force team. Stability was 41% (Mar 2022) and improved to ~ 71%. in Jul 2022. Landing times were >48 hrs and are now trending towards. 41 hrs. As of Feb 2023 ~97% stability.
  • Driving the migration towards creating Data Products at Nubank implementing interfaces and APIs to support Data Governance principles at Nubank.
  • Redesigned and implemented the pipeline for manual ingestion of data, we were able to reduce the average number of user support tickets every week by 48%.
LeadershipStakeholder ManagementProject DeliveryProject ManagementEngineering ManagementCommunication+8

Go-jek tech

Lead Product Engineer

Jan 2019Jul 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Product engineer at GoPay, enabling online and offline payments through digital wallets.
  • GoPay is a leading digital wallet and payment system in Indonesia. I was the lead engineer on a project that involved the integration of Whatsapp with GoPay to enable the transfer of funds and digital currency through the WA/Facebook Network.
  • As a product engineer on this team, I led the inception phase of the project, understanding the requirements and translating them to scalable and well-designed solutions.
  • Wrote good quality, scalable, and maintainable code
  • Designed a scalable system and micro services backed solution.
  • Deployed, monitored, maintained, and fixed products in production.
Apache KafkaREST APIsPostgreSQLRedisJavaMicroservices+1

Sahaj software solutions

Software Engineer

Apr 2014Jan 2019 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked on multiple projects as a solutions consultant.
  • A Publishing Platform for a client.
  • A platform for publishing structured content built for a major publishing house. All phases of the publishing cycle such as content development, authoring, reviewing, editing, proof writing, and production were implemented. Provided support for self-authored books. The system was designed to be highly available and scalable.
  • Built APIs in Python
  • Automated environment creation
  • Automated application deployment and configuration
  • Performance testing with JMeter
  • A healthcare app for an American University
  • An open-source, adaptable Android-based mobile application that helps health workers collect patient information, record readings, gather critical medical data, and interoperates seamlessly with OpenMRS.
  • Built APIs in Java,
  • Android app development
  • Introduced TDD to the codebase
Amazon Web Services (AWS)REST APIsAndroid DevelopmentNeo4jPython (Programming Language)JMeter+5

Open source projects

Developer

Nov 2013Apr 2014 · 5 mos

Qness software pvt ltd

Software Engineer

Nov 2011Apr 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Qness Software is into a business of dynamic software development & Financial Services with its roots based in Geneva, Switzerland. The product focusses around a complex Portfolio Management System, involving strong ties to Financial Services industry, providing its clients a comprehensive view of their respective investments across various financial markets.

Vanguard

Software Developer, Technology Leadership Program

Apr 2007Apr 2008 · 1 yr · United States

  • Vanguard is the client-owned investment company that is reducing cost and complexity for all investors founded in 1975.Recruited as one of the select IT hires as part of the Technology Leadership Program(TLP). I was part of the CBD (Component Based Development) team which was responsible for designing and building custom components for use on the Vanguard website.

Hewlett-packard

Software Engineer

Jun 2004Jun 2005 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Device Driver Developer, part of the TermIO(Terminal Input Output) team at the SNIL(Systems Networking and I/O Labs)Labs,HP Bangalore and was responsible for the Console driver.
  • Mastered Operating systems, Device driver logic, HPUX Internals and Kernel debugger at HP.

Education

P.E.S. Instt. Of Tech

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science and Engineering — Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2004

National Public School

Sophia High School

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