Priyankaa Vijayakumar

Engineering Manager

San Francisco, California, United States16 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven leader in building effective engineering teams.
Expert in developing scalable applications for the entertainment industry.
Strong background in Agile methodologies and cross-platform development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with expertise in entertainment technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavascriptAgile MethodologiesReact

Other Skills

JavaCSSScrumGitMachine LearningNode.jsHTMLjQueryJSPEclipseDojoC++CXMLUML

About

I am a people-focused engineering leader passionate about building effective teams. I am currently at Netflix leading teams building world-class apps & services to support the growing Ads Business. I’m always interested in hearing from former co-workers and others, so feel free to contact me if you’d like to connect.

Experience

16 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

9 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Netflix

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 10 mos

My team and I work on Ads Reporting Infrastructure, Measurement, Verification, Revenue Recognition and Invoicing in support of the new Ads Supported Tier.
Previously, I lead a team of Engineers responsible for building an exciting new suite of apps to efficiently scale out our growing number of Netflix productions. These apps will allow our production teams to optimize scheduling, leverage machine learning, and help productions identify the optimal physical resources for filming. This was a brand new space and I built an engineering team to tackle real-world, unique problems in the entertainment industry.

JavaScriptJavaCSSAgile MethodologiesScrumGit

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2017 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

I was a part of the cross-platform Growth Team, and I built performant workflows for the many partner integrations and new payment methods on the web, mobile and tv platforms. I worked on the following
1) Built support for many new global payment initiatives on Web, and supported Billing, Invoices and the update payment workflows. (www.netflix.com/signup)
2) Built the updated gift cards redemptions/ award voters workflow (www.netflix.com/redeem)
3) Built the Android in-app web-view signup flow for new and returning members.
4) Built features on the Netflix TV UI for OSK improvements and update payment workflows.
5) Built tooling for a new API contract testing framework

JavaScriptCSSAgile MethodologiesGit

Yahoo! inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2013 – Feb 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

I was a part of the Yahoo Mail Engineering team, and I worked on building new features, improving performance and boosting stability. I have worked on the following
1) Subfolder support
https://yahoomail.tumblr.com/post/129667165061/yahoo-mail-makes-organizing-easier-with-subfolders
2) Multiple mailbox support for Outlook and Aol
https://yahoomail.tumblr.com/post/131217434481/more-than-one-email-account-manage-all-your
3) Multiple mailbox support for Gmail
https://yahoomail.tumblr.com/post/134942922131/manage-your-gmail-right-from-yahoo-mail
4) Yahoo mail archive support
https://yahoomail.tumblr.com/post/138696773701/unclutter-your-inbox-archive-keep-your-messages
I also working on new features for the latest major revision of Yahoo Mail, powered by Node.JS, React, and Flux

JavaScriptNode.jsReactAgile Methodologies

Cisco

Software Engineer

Jul 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos

I was a part of the engineering team for the Collaboration Software Group, creating Cisco WebEx Social, using Javascript (Dojo & Backbone), HTML, Java, JSP, and CSS2 and CSS3.
Developing in scrum teams following the agile software development methodology, to rapidly develop Quad.

JavaScriptHTMLCSSAgile Methodologies

Rensselaer polytechnic institute

3 roles

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2011 – May 2011 · 4 mos · Troy, NY

Assisted in grading assignments, projects and tests for the Spring 2011 semester classes of "Cryptography and Network Security I" (http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~yener/teaching.html)