Vivek Munagala

Director of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India17 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable financial crime prevention systems.
  • Led cross-functional teams to launch innovative merchant tools.
  • Architected next-gen local shopping systems for enhanced user experience.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer with expertise in E-commerce and SaaS solutions.

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About

A computer software engineer with immense curiosity and passion to learn how computer systems work at a kernel level as well as in distributed systems. I would like to apply my technical and analytic skills to contribute to the design and architecture of great computer systems.

Experience

Google

5 roles

Engineering Manager II, Anti Financial Crime

Promoted

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Building Anti-Money Laundering(AML) and Sanctions screening solutions for our payment products. My focus is on delivering highly effective, compliant financial crime prevention systems while optimizing the user experience for speed and seamlessness.

Staff Software Engineer (TLM), Merchant Identity

Mar 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Leading a highly skilled and cross-functional team encompassing Engineering, Product Management, Program Management, and User Experience(UX). Crafted a comprehensive charter for the teams while concurrently developing roadmaps and strategies. Mentored junior engineers, fostering their growth into proficient Google engineers, and guided senior engineers towards leadership roles.
  • Provided leadership during the launch of Business Manager (BM), an innovative platform that consolidates all Google merchant tools for seamless management. Led the onboarding process for Merchant Center and Google Business Profile onto identity infrastructure.
  • Collaborated consistently with cross-organizational and cross-product area leadership to strategically position Business Manager for optimal user engagement across all merchant tools.
  • Engaged at all stages of the software design and delivery process, offering guidance in design and code reviews, architectural decisions, and stakeholder management.
  • Led an interdisciplinary team in an individual contributor(IC) capacity, driving the integration of omnichannel features into Merchant Center 2.0. Formulated technical and product strategies, meticulously planned execution, and successfully launched the initiative.

Technical Lead, Local Commerce

Nov 2019Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Led the transformation of local shopping consumer experiences on Google Shopping.
  • Architected a next-gen local shopping serving system, crafting reusable modules to expedite feature development. Established standards for engineers within the commerce organization who contributed to local modules.
  • Conceived, designed, led the development, and launched feature to search for products available in nearby stores, which has since become a critical strategy for local commerce.
  • Oversaw the development and launch of local features on Google Search, leading teams across multiple time zones.
  • Designed a product selection strategy for the Local Store Front, enabling reuse across surfaces like search, shopping, and maps by devising technical solutions that align with local compliance.

Technical Lead, Commerce in NBU

Promoted

Apr 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Made Google shopping great for NBU counties. Launched multiple consumer & merchant facing commerce products for India, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico & more to grow users and enable a thriving retail ecosystem. The launches were featured in Google-for-Indonesia and India press events.

Software Engineer

Feb 2015Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Software-defined networking, Content distribution network

Fusion-io

Intern, Software System Engineer, Systems and Solutions, ioTurbine

May 2014Aug 2014 · 3 mos · San Jose

Carnegie mellon university

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jan 2014Dec 2014 · 11 mos · Pittsburgh

Directi

2 roles

R & D Engineer

Jul 2012Jun 2013 · 11 mos · Mumbai

  • Improved page load times for parked pages from 300 ms to 100 ms.
  • Achieved more than 30000 QPS on a single PowerDNS process by implementing backend module in C.
  • Devised and developed a cache solution for determining IP to country mapping.
  • Implemented a Varnish module to serve different cached content based on country and user-agent.
  • Implemented a full-scale selenium tool for monitoring and do functional testing.
  • Implemented an apache module to gain performance of >10000 queries per second (QPS) on a single server compared
  • to a standalone script serving 2000-3000
  • Also part of a team responsible for serving Ads on publisher sites
  • Trainer for the course “Computer Architecture” for new joiners at DirectI.
  • Active member of recruitment panel of DirectI. Also involved in framing algorithmic questions used in interviews.

Software Developer

Jun 2010Jun 2012 · 2 yrs · Mumbai

Dirubhai ambani institute of information and communication technology

3 roles

Teaching Assintant

Promoted

Aug 2009May 2010 · 9 mos

  • Teaching assistant for Data Structures and Algorithms

Microsoft Student Partner

Oct 2008Apr 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

Event Organizer

Aug 2007Mar 2008 · 7 mos

  • Elected member for Core committee of Synapse’08, annual techno-cultural fest of DA-IICT

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Science (MS) — Information Networks

Jan 2013Jan 2014

Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology

BTech — Information and Communication Technology

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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