Mountu Jinwala — VP of Engineering

Engineering leader with extensive experience in developing and managing high-performing teams focused on distributed systems, cloud services, data platforms, and security within consumer and financial (Billing/Fintech) domains. Demonstrated ability to drive strategic initiatives from conception to delivery, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and innovation to align with the company's strategy. My experience includes leading complex new initiatives from the ground up, transitioning to new technology stacks, and introducing and promoting the adoption of cutting-edge technologies, such as AI assistants, while ensuring operational excellence. With extensive experience in supporting engineers' professional growth and transitions into leadership, I have effectively managed large teams in collaborative environments. Core Competencies - Leadership: Building and mentoring engineering teams (including transitions and growth), fostering collaboration, and driving engineering excellence. Experience with cross-team/org initiatives and improving engineering quality and efficiency. - Vision: Developing and executing strategic roadmaps, influencing stakeholders (including senior leadership), and aligning engineering with business objectives. Leading teams through significant changes like re-organization, re-structuring, and migrations. - Distributed Systems: Overseeing the development, scaling, and maintenance of distributed systems and cloud-based platforms. Experience with billing systems and related infrastructure. - Team Building: Recruiting, growing, and retaining top engineering talent and guiding individual contributors to manager, tech lead, and principal engineer roles. - Influence: Collaborating across organizations, influencing decision-making, driving change, navigating complex environments (like FedRamp compliance), and delivering impactful results. Technical Skills: - Scalable Distributed infrastructure services and platforms - Micro-services, Domain Driven Design - Cloud Applications and Technologies (AWS, RDS, S3) - API Infrastructure and experiences - Fintech (Cloud billing, FP&A systems) - Data platforms and Big Data Technologies: Hadoop, BigQuery, etc - Performance Optimization - Compliance (SOX and FedRamp)

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS engineering leader with expertise in distributed systems and cloud technologies.

Location: San Jose, California, United States

Experience: 21 yrs

Skills

Leadership
Distributed Systems
Team Management

Career Highlights

Led AI assistant and monetization platform at Confluent.
Managed high-performance teams across multiple regions.
Drove eBay's advertising business growth from $0 to $20M/year.

Work Experience

Confluent

Senior Engineering Manager (4 yrs 4 mos)

Engineering Manager (1 yr 4 mos)

Netflix

Engineering Manager (2 yrs 5 mos)

Senior Software Engineer / Architect (3 yrs)

eBay

Engineering Manager (8 mos)

Engineering Lead (6 yrs 11 mos)

Siderean Software

Software Engineer (1 yr 5 mos)

Information Science Institue (ISI-USC)

Graduate Research Assitant (1 yr)

Education

Master`s of Science at University of Southern California

B.E. at Savitribai Phule Pune University

Mountu Jinwala

VP of Engineering

San Jose, California, United States21 yrs experience

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Key Highlights

Led AI assistant and monetization platform at Confluent.
Managed high-performance teams across multiple regions.
Drove eBay's advertising business growth from $0 to $20M/year.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS engineering leader with expertise in distributed systems and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipDistributed SystemsTeam Management

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)AI assistantsAPI InfrastructureCloud ApplicationsBilling SystemsBig DataData ScienceData StructuresGenerative AIRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Online AdvertisingEngineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipStrategic Thinking

About

Experience

21 yrs

Total Experience

4 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

Currently leading the AI assistant, API Experience and Monetization Platform organizaton(20+ people) at Confluent that includes AI assistant (external and internal customers) , Public Rest API , Confluent CLI, Confluent Terraform provider and Backend for frontend for Confluent Cloud Console, and entire Cloud Billing.

Cross-functional Team LeadershipAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)LeadershipDistributed Systems

Engineering Manager

Oct 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

Cross-functional Team LeadershipTeam ManagementLeadership

Netflix

2 roles

Engineering Manager

May 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Cross-functional Team LeadershipAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Leadership

Senior Software Engineer / Architect

May 2015 – May 2018 · 3 yrs

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Leadership

Ebay

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Sep 2014 – May 2015 · 8 mos

Led and managed eBay's advertising big-data platform team to serve the needs of sellers, advertisers and marketers.
Managed high performance team of 10+ engineers across multiple regions to support eBay Advertising`s Campaign & Audience management systems.
Closely partnered with Business, Product to build various audience segmentation features to grow advertising business from $0 to $20M/year.
Collaborated with Data science and sales teams to productionize Ad campaign optimization models to improve CPC / CPM /CPA.
Improved velocity of team by implementing engineering disciplines for Test driven development, CI/CD and code reviews.
Led the architecture and design for User tracking service across all devices to increase marketer and advertisers reach.
Led the design of user cooking syncing with SSP`s and DSP`s to improve Ad quality.

Team ManagementLeadership

Engineering Lead

Oct 2007 – Sep 2014 · 6 yrs 11 mos

Progressively increased responsibilities to different levels. Led the architecture, design and development of various systems for eBay’s Distributed Commerce, Display Advertising Platform for Internal Marketing, O&O and eBay Audience Platform (EAP) which utilized users’ shopping behavior on various eBay Inc properties / partner sites and their response to advertising to optimize towards advertisers' goals.
Co-architected the advertising data platform (DMP) on Hadoop to store and analyze consumer behavior, demographic trends and campaign impressions/click/conversion data to enable advertiser target users
Designed and implemented data ingestion workflows to aggregate data from different source for eBay Advertising Platform
Led the architecture, design and development of distributed back-end system for Distributed Commerce platform.
Built remote team of Full stack Engineers to manage Merchant on-boarding and reporting platform.
Re-designed monolith Deal Processor into distributed processing of 100M+ deals to improve liveliness of deals on site by reducing total processing time ultimately giving revenue lift.
Led the architecture of Merchant Payment Gateway integration with PayPal resulting in yearly saving for company.
Translated idea of providing data quality reports to merchants into product feature which helped to improve search on site.

Team ManagementLeadership

Siderean software

Software Engineer

May 2006 – Oct 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos

Responsible for designing and implementing features for Siderean Seamark Enterprise Search(Relational Navigation Search Engine )
Scaled Seamark by designing and implementing Hierarchical Clustering framework using JGroups as underlying technology.
Cluster Monitoring and management was implemented by designing features like nodes status, join cluster, leave cluster, etc.
Extended seamark features for clustering by broadcasting queries and intelligently merging their responses & removing duplicates results in cluster hierarchy.
Automatically distributed the incoming RDF/XML data (as a Data Feed) to nodes in cluster by designing and implementing data partitioning and distributing algorithm.
Achieved the sub-second query response using extensive multithreaded programming.
Solved the problem of backup and restore of data, queries, etc in seamark application by developing import/export feature
Developed Web UI for Cluster Management & other features using AJAX and JSP.

Data Structures

Information science institue (isi-usc)

Graduate Research Assitant

May 2005 – May 2006 · 1 yr

Assisted Senior Research Scientist
Worked with Senior Research Scientist for developing techniques to automatically create computational workflows in response to user data requests, as a unifying paradigm, both data access and data processing operations were represented as web services.
ARGOS: Dynamic Composition of Web Services for Goods Movement Analysis and Planning
Automatically composed a workflow in response to a user request based on mediator techniques.
. Designed and implemented execution engine in JAVA to execute the automatically composed workflow based on description of sources and operations
. Defined the ontology of the domain to model data, data sources and operation for the workflow execution.