Sumit Sorde — Senior Software Engineer
Engineering leader managing 3 full-stack development teams (overall 25+ people which includes senior managers, managers, SWEs at multiple levels) in the Billing and Payments platform domain for Indeed. *Key skills* Proven ability to lead and grow engineering function in start-up like and global development centres along with leading geographically distributed teams. Growing teams by hiring (hired 10+ ICs and 1 manager for my current teams) Demonstrated expertise in facilitating employee career growth and coaching through areas of improvement. Structuring org into teams by factoring in business needs, skill sets and domain knowledge of team members Coin new product and engineering excellence initiatives and drive consensus across Product and Engineering leadership for prioritization. Strong contributions to annual strategy planning. Apply and refine agile processes to plan engineering work and ensure good execution velocity and quality. Build good partnerships with Engineering, Product and Ops team members across various geographies. Proven interviewing experience for SWE and management roles. Serving as trainer for RDD interview at Indeed. Active participation in technical decision making and code reviews. 10+ years in IC role before transitioning into management from Staff SWE role *Key accomplishments* Played a critical role in growth of the Billing Hyd charter from 7 SWEs to 20+ SWEs over the last 3 years by consistently demonstrating high quality and timely engineering execution for multiple critical projects. Successfully created investment case for forming a new team by requesting ownership of proposed Enterprise billing experience charter. Delivered MVP for new Enterprise billing experience within 4 months. Led teams in multiple domains i.e. Marketing automation, Billing and Payments. Drove the 1.5 year long initiative to modernize the front-end technology architecture from conception to delivery phase. This led to improved agility and deprecation of legacy webapps. Delivered multiple projects across 3 years which are critical towards transformation of Billing platform (also involves integration of a new third party solution into the Billing and Payments domain). Supported the adoption of AI to solve business use cases in the team’s domain. Being the first team in overall org of ~10 teams in adoption of newly proposed observability, monitoring and reliability guidelines. Successfully coached 10+ team members through promotions. Guided teams through adoption of shift-left and one engineering approach over the last 2 years.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with expertise in Billing and Payments.
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Experience: 19 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Team Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Technical Leadership
- Team Building
- Engineering Management
- Technical Architecture
- Microservices
- Java
- Service-oriented Architecture (soa)
- Programming
Career Highlights
- Led growth of Billing Hyd charter from 7 to 20+ SWEs.
- Delivered MVP for new Enterprise billing experience in 4 months.
- First team to adopt new observability and monitoring guidelines.
Work Experience
Indeed
Senior Software Engineering Manager - Billing experience (2 yrs 1 mo)
Senior Software Engineering Manager - Accounts and Payments (1 yr 2 mos)
Software Engineering Manager - Billing account management (1 yr 4 mos)
Software Engineering Manager - Marketing automation team (9 mos)
Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs)
ServiceNow
Staff Software Engineer (3 mos)
Kony, Inc.
Senior Technical Team Lead (2 yrs)
Technical Lead (1 yr 8 mos)
Microsoft
SDE II (8 mos)
SDE II (3 yrs 5 mos)
Adobe Systems
Member of Technical Staff 2 (7 mos)
Member of Technical Staff (3 yrs 3 mos)
Education
M Tech at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Research student at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
BE at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology