Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

• Technology leader of connectivity platform at Expedia Group across all Product Lines (Flights, Hotels, VRs, Cars, Cruise, Activities) that manages 20B+ partner interactions on a monthly basis.

Feb 2017 – Jun 2021 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• What is the first thing you do while planning your travel? Most of the travelers and explorers begin their journey with Flights. It's the only way you can connect the world in a reasonable amount of time. I am deeply passionate about helping travelers like you go places and make our world well connected. Expedia Flights team is the traffic powerhouse for the Expedia group and our Flights Shopping Platform is one of the largest in the world serving ~ 200 million queries a day and powering some of the strongest brands in the industry like Orbitz, Expedia, Travelocity, Wotif, Hotwire and ebookers. Our technology operations are global, with approximately 200+ engineers with a diverse representation from US, Mexico, Australia and India.
• So what makes Flights at Expedia unique?
• We are one of the few companies in the world that own a proprietary flight search engine (called Best Fare Search) which is used by millions of users on a daily basis.
• We are moving one of the world’s biggest flights platform to AWS.
• We handle several 100 thousand booking transactions every day and connect with all major GDS partners you can think of.
• We collect TeraBytes of Flights Data and are actively looking to use ML to show the right content to our customers.
• As the head of Flights platform and connectivity teams, my responsibilities include:
• Ownership of Product and Engineering of all of Flight supply (orchestration services, connectivity, datastore etc.)
• Provide leadership and strategic guidance by directly managing architect, Product Managers, Engineering Directors and Operations Director. 150+ globally distributed team of FTE and vendors.
• Define & communicate product and technical strategy, architecture guidance and vision.
• Led a major platform evolution project to move a 20 year legacy C++ codebase to modern Java services in the Cloud.

Apr 2013 – Feb 2017 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• As a director of Flights platform, I built and lead a team of ~50 engineers (dev, test) and Program Managers that focussed on Core Flights Supply Platform. Grew the team from 20 engineers to 50 by building and executing on a strong vision thereby turning around a sinking flights product. During my time as Director, flight revenue grew by 15% YoY.

Feb 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Manage a distributed team of SDETs for Transportation Technologies - Air team

Nov 2005 – Feb 2012 · 6 yrs 3 mos

• Moved from a UI centric team to a core platform team during this time. Grew and managed ~10 SDETs.

Feb 2002 – Nov 2005 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Held a variety of roles across various teams at Expedia and was primarily responsible for building automation tools and own the quality of products we shipped.