Nov 2015 – Aug 2016 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Drive Engineering for the online property rental company. Oversaw product strategy, architectural oversight, process definition, project management, and product releases. Administered Engineering Budget.
• Key Areas
• ♦ Developed and executed engineering plans and procedures to assure projects were completed within budgetary and time constraints
• ♦ Managed resource allocation of the engineering and QA teams across multiple projects
• ♦ Revised vendor partnerships gaining 25% on overall budget
• ♦ Stabilised Employee Attrition issue within two months of joining
• ♦ Created and implemented software processes (product specification, development and deployment) across PM, Dev, QA, DevOps that reduced development time, release corrections, and customer feature request implementation
• ♦ Led effort to develop company-wide best practices, standardized specification guidelines, and inter-departmental communications.
• ♦ Responsible for conducting interviews, hiring, performance reviews, promotion and salary increases.
• ♦ Prepared and presented quarterly engineering status and innovation goals to investor group
• ♦ Launched highly scalable cloud based next gen microservices(kong/java/REST) property management API which sourced all the line of grabhouse products and easily handle projected 10x growth
• ♦ Led the effort to revamp the web/mobile-web portal for the best consumer experience improving 30% conversions

Jun 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Engineering Owner for Draw Something franchise of mobile games. Owned the roadmap and execution for several feature releases on iOS and Android with a DAU of 500K. Speed Guess Something was the first mobile IP idealized, designed and developed from Studio India.
• Engineering Owner for Zynga Poker mobile game on Windows Phone for phones and tablets.

Jun 2013 – May 2014 · 11 mos

• Engineering owner for Zynga’s Web Gaming Platform (zyngagames.com). This platform hosted all major Zynga’s web games such as Farmville2, Castleville and Ninja Kingdom and had a 800K DAU. Drove adoption of zynga platform for new IPs with close collaboration with various zynga game GMS/CTO and my team.

Nov 2011 – May 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Engineering owner for storage solutions at Zynga. Storage requirements across games mounted to serveral petabytes per day. Owned and forked off opensource membase code from couchbase to converge with zyngas roadmap. Released super charged version of membase which reduced nodes/servers requirements 3x, resulting in significant lowered operational costs. This version was later contributed back to the open source community.

Jul 2004 – Dec 2010 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Los Gatos, CA

• ♦ Owned and led the movie metadata team to manage Netflix’s assets catlog of movies. This was one of the key components that powered Netflix’s recommendation engine. Was the prime owner of this during Netflix’s transition from physical to digital content.
• ♦ Managed regular interactions with content users, buyers – prioritzing their needs, pain points and defining upcoming projects with stakeholders – making proces effficient and enabled visibility and tracking-resulting in productivity increase by 40% .
• ♦ Delivered the next Generation suite of movie content management using Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) which all aspects from movie matching, movie discovery, workflow, movie metadata management to making it live on all channels.
• ♦ Setup processes and procedures to improve effectiveness across teams as the company grew enabling us to be more agile.
• ♦ Hired, trained and mentored dev and QE engineers for team from ground up

Apr 2002 – Jun 2004 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Mountain View, CA

• Team lead for the delivering BLT a highly customized version of Bugzilla for the entire AOL dev and QA community - involving extensive changes and layering of the data attributes to suite the AOL business needs of classifying and tracking bugs.

Jul 1999 – Apr 2001 · 1 yr 9 mos · Santa Clara, CA

• Worked on the B2C web platform selling software online - developed the cross sell engine, pricing engine and revamped the inventory process to speed it 10x time

Aug 1996 – Jun 1999 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Fremont, CA

• Worked as an Senior Consultant several client-server and web based products for clients such as SCE (Southern California Edison), BMC Software and Silicon Graphics.

Jan 1993 – Aug 1996 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Senior Consultant worked as a Team Lead for OpenPAS (Open Patient Administration System) for Zensar technologies and ICL, UK
• Team Lead for Patient Billing and Pharmacy management product for Singapore General Hospital.