Nov 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Aug 2021 – Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Turvo is a cloud 1st and pure multi-tenant cloud platform to empower shippers, carriers, LSPs, and brokers with a completely streamlined, connected approach to comprehensive supply chain management, all in one platform.
• # Managing a global team of 250+ Engineers, SRE, QE and Product Managers. Part of India and US board. E-2-E responsibility of the Technology stack – strategy, roadmap and execution.
• # E-2-e responsibility of Global Technology and Turvo India P&L.
• # Interfacing with the BOD and driving consensus on key technology strategies and programs.
• # Responsible for strategic technology roadmap, key Technology initiatives, timely completion.
• # Growing People, Platform Scale, Tech depth while reducing Tech debt.

Nov 2020 – Aug 2021 · 9 mos

Oct 2016 – Nov 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Started the team with 15 engineering and grew it to 150. Built Technical Program Mgmt., Site Reliability and Release Engineering functions ground up, while building the core dev team. Complete ownership of engineering prioritization and execution of roadmap. Organizational design for Platform Engineering.
• # Build the v1 platform to implement key use cases and scale shipments by >600%.
• # Scaled the team and hired seasoned industry veterans to deepen the engineering bench. Growing, nurturing and up leveling the team.
• # Instrumented key release and engineering processes to control and vector the growing technology team.
• # Continuous loop with customers to build context drive innovation and customer success, and enable the India team to get more business insights.
• # Drove key design choices to tune the platform for availability and agility.
• # Drove technical due diligence for securing series B funding.
• # Exec sponsor for India GTM Strategy.

Feb 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Day in and day out, to get things done we need to connect/communicate/collaborate with multitudes of people, individually & in group setting and while some of these are successfully facilitated with current messaging apps there are still lots of opportunities that are untapped in messaging space.
• Responsible for Id’ing the key unmet user needs from messaging/communication standpoint for India, up-level for all emerging markets and connect it with Skype business KPIs
• Responsible for e-2-e execution in India and collaboration with other global Skype teams
• Work with global stakeholders and senior LT to expand India team charter

Apr 2012 – Sep 2016 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Local Search is the next big thing in Search. Given we use search as a way to find information about what we need and what is around us, majority of queries have a local intent. Our vision is to be the best local search engine that helps user with local task completion.
• Local Search
•  Responsibility of Local and Maps search in several Bing Markets in Europe, Asia and North America region
•  Ownership of business, user KPIs, roadmap to success and tying them with engineering roadmap
•  Recruiting, forming and mentoring a high performing team
•  Evangelizing Bing Search in India
•  Independent responsibility of group P&L
•  Working with global stakeholders and Exec. Mgmt. to clarify and expand India team charter
• Incubations
• Primary responsibility is to drive the innovation quotient for the entire team.
• Come up with a holistic framework to accelerate ideation, validation and funding[or not] of the ideas

Oct 2009 – Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• India is a great market to incubate new initiatives and provides a tremendous talent base. Bing Search technology center-India [in Hyderabad] was established in 2010 to add more engineering bandwidth and momentum to WW Bing Search share growth.
• Responsibilities -
•  End-to-end responsibility of multiple strategic and market differentiating initiatives - Bing Recipes, Bing Weather, Bing Education etc.
•  Ownership of Search relevance, Search data quality for key domains
•  Recruiting, forming and mentoring a high performing team
•  Evangelizing Bing Search in India
•  Independent responsibility of group P&L
•  Working with global stakeholders and Exec. Mgmt. to clarify and expand India team charter

Feb 2009 – Oct 2009 · 8 mos

• As the Web is evolving and becoming more and more collaborative, it is becoming increasingly clear that for Search to succeed in the marketplace, we needs to have a very strong offering for key partners in ecosystem that entails analyzing the market, accessing the needs/gaps, build appropriate engineering capabilities and go-to market in an timely fashion.
• Responsibilities -
•  End-to-end responsibility of Search ecosystem team
•  Working with executives, marketing, prod-dev and key stakeholders to finalize ecosystem charter, long term vision and strategic direction
•  Managing an independent market study on ecosystem opportunity
•  Architecting key engineering capabilities to power different experiences
•  Forming a high performance team to develop and deliver Search ecosystem components

May 2006 – Feb 2009 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• For past few years, MSN has been reinventing itself by leveraging Search and other Web 2.0 technologies, consequently surfacing relevant content and engaging more users and new customer segments. KPI’s for ROS/SEP are – acquire new users and engage more with users on MSN properties.Managed a global team of 30 Engineers, QE and Product Managers.
• Responsibilities -
•  Conceptualized, defined, evangelized, designed, built and delivered the v1.0 SEP, v2.0 development underway, and implemented global rollout strategy, executive buy off and global implementation underway.
•  Completed independent market study and worked with planners x-orgs on creating a value-prop and market analysis document.
•  Worked on creating an uber editorial workflow that combines SEO, SEM and SEP intelligence; presents it to the editor while creating content strategy, content and designing UX.
•  In addition, worked on forming a Search <> MSN ecosystem engineering team- chartered to implement innovative features that drive traffic across MSN and Live Search properties, for example Popular Searches on MSN HP, Quick Links on Live SERP
•  Part of MELT – Management Excellence Leadership Team
•  Part of MSN Ext-LT

Apr 2005 – Jul 2006 · 1 yr 3 mos

• A market leader in providing Personal Credit Reports and personal credit health related products. Per government mandate, all 3 credit bureaus needed to implement FACTA, which means they will be providing 1 free credit report per year, to a consumer free of charge.
• Responsibilities -
•  Managed multiple FACTA initiatives execution based on GDC model in terms of development and overall quality both pre-production and post-production.
•  Managed FACTA rollout Phase 3 and 4 to South East and North East states
•  Define and design the strategy to manage offshore partners effectively, and id’ed projects, development efforts, to be executed under dual shore methodology to decrease turnaround time and increase quality and cost-effectiveness
•  Release planning and management
•  Proactively involved in identifying process improvement issues in overall SDLC
•  Team development
•  Part of enterprise IT governance team

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr