Mar 2014 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr · Sunnyvale,CA

• At Yahoo, I’ve streamlined content management by building a content platform that powers all yahoo media sites and brought it down to a single code base from 120+ code bases. Under my leadership, we have provided power user location coverage and accuracy for all yahoo users across mobile web and desktop.

Mar 2011 – Mar 2014 · 3 yrs · Sunnyvale,CA

• As the Director of Engineering, I was responsible for creating the global business listings platform to improve productivity by 100%. I’ve engineered Built Web Crawl and Vertical Crawl platforms running on a 1000 node HBase cluster & reduced technical debt by $10MM and minimalized the time to market from 6 months to 3 weeks.
• I’ve worked extensively towards introducing and institutionalizing best engineering practices including continuous integration, Agile SCRUM development methodology to balance productivity, time to market and quality.

Oct 2008 – Mar 2011 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Sunnyvale,CA

• Along with my team, we launched Yahoo Local Monetization solution with Local Partners including ATT, DEX, Superpages, etc. in a record time of 4 months which is currently driving annual revenue of $100MM at Yahoo.
• My focus has been towards innovation through complex machine learning algorithms, heuristics in understanding the user query intent and improved the slotting model, coverage (6% to 15%), relevancy and precision to drive incremental revenue of $20MM
• I’ve worked towards turning around a low morale team of 10 going through multiple disruptions to a stable, motivated, high performing team capable to deliver consistent results and adding compelling value to Yahoo Local. As a lead, I helped grow the team from 10 to 25 engineers

Aug 2007 – Oct 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos · Sunnyvale,CA

• As the Engineering Manager at Yahoo, my first initiative was to build a bidding marketplace for Yahoo Shopping and Travel advertisers which increased YOY revenue by $20MM.

Oct 2004 – Aug 2007 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Sunnyvale,CA

• I head the Project for architecting and delivering declarative user interface for all Motorola smartphones and reduced the UI production refresh cycles from 18 to 6 months.
• I’ve collaborated with various teams in India, China, and Europe and successfully delivered in-built applications (Mainmenu, Addressbook, Homescreen) for Linux-Java phones

May 2002 – Oct 2004 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Sunnyvale,CA

• Confluent Software developed products in Policy enforcement and management of web services. Oblix acquired confluent software in 2004, and Oracle acquired Oblix in 2005.
• As a founding member, I raised 10MM with Apax & UV ventures and led SWOT teams and successfully on-boarded CISCO, Hartford that has resulted in $1.2 MM revenue for the product. I fulfilled my vision to set up the company from inception and was actively involved in hiring, setting up and streamlining the engineering process.
• I also helped in implementing the entire backend, Policy management engine, and Web services gateway.

Aug 2000 – May 2002 · 1 yr 9 mos

• I have been part of the building next-generation brokered language, eSpeak. We have built a discoverable services repository, ESV - Eservices Village.

Mar 1995 – Aug 2000 · 5 yrs 5 mos

• In Hewlett Packard, I worked as a technical pre-sales architect for middleware technologies and won multiple projects with revenue ranging from $10MM -$100MM. I helped transform the biggest air travel giant, Abacus, business to expand into non-air core segments. Implemented hotel and holiday booking portals for B2B & B2C models thus increasing an additional 25% of YOY revenue for Abacus.
• My contribution to the business was to implement the largest personalization, inventory, and mobile phone activation management system for 6 large telecom customers in South East Asia. These projects have resulted in $50MM dollars in revenue over a couple of years.

Jun 1993 – Jan 1995 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• I designed and developed a domestic airline reservation system, Student performance system, and banking applications