Saurabh Sharda

Director of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States18 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building high-performance micro-services.
Led multiple engineering teams to success at Expedia.
Transformed teams during major acquisitions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on travel technology and micro-service architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team ManagementMicro-service ArchitectureApisUser ExperienceMachine LearningReal-time StreamingReal-time AnalyticsTeam BuildingRule Matching

Other Skills

Distributed SystemsAWSTeam CollaborationStormKafkaRedisAlerting FrameworkRule Matching ServiceAlgorithmsData StructuresDesign PatternsSoftware DesignWeb ServicesScrumAgile Project Management

About

• Hands-on leader with large-scale design and implementation experience in building high-performance micro-services and distributed systems. • Inspire, guide and enable teams to be productive, efficient and successful. Strongly embrace the “Loosely-Coupled, Highly-Aligned” principle. • Expert in forming and scaling engineering teams and building a sustainable team culture.

Experience

18 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Expedia group

4 roles

Sr Engineering Manager

Promoted

May 2017 – Jun 2021 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Technology leader leading multiple Engineering teams in Expedia Flights business.
Build Expedia Flights Seats and Bags APIs and platform to support internal and external partners.
Revolutionizing Flight experience by building new platform which exposes customer centric fares. It has already increased Expedia's GP by $XX million/year.
Launched >20 successful UI and backend TnL in a year timeframe.
Creating industry wide standards by collaborating with different GDS partners and Airlines.
Increased Expedia Seats and Bags revenue/profit by improving user experience and resiliency/stability in Flights services.
Part of the Expedia core team at the time of Orbitz acquisition and transformed Orbitz Flights team to adapt the new culture and brought Orbitz’s goodness into Expedia.
Expertise in working with teams across different Geographies.
Expertise in moving legacy services to micro-service architecture and AWS.

Distributed SystemsTeam ManagementMicro-service ArchitectureAWS

Engineering Manager

Nov 2015 – May 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

Setup whole new team for Expedia Flights SEO/SEM pages which brought Expedia Flight results in top 5 on google search results.
Used machine learning for building feedback loop to blacklist non-profitable routes which reduced cost by $XX millions/year.
Built a real-time streaming platform using Storm, Kafka, Redis, ELK which is handling billions of events daily.

Machine LearningReal-time StreamingMicro-service ArchitectureAWS

Sr. Technology Lead

Feb 2015 – Nov 2015 · 9 mos

Designed and build out automated Realtime alerting and analytics framework for handling high increase in price changes on Expedia Flights using cutting edge technologies like Storm, ELK, Redis, AWS.

AWSReal-time AnalyticsAlerting Framework

Software Development Engineer II

Dec 2012 – Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Designed and developed scalable Rule Matching service, blacklisting and interlines infrastructure for Expedia Flights in AWS. Hired best talent to grow the team from 10 to 60 engineers.

AWSRule Matching ServiceTeam Building

Globalscholar

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

Designed and implemented cost-effective reporting subsystem and bulk content import/export website for schools. Standardized the schema for the APIs for easy partner integration.

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer

Jun 2007 – Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Designed, developed and standardized RFID EPC Tag Data Translation Standard/Library which is used by several Microsoft partners to encode, decode and translate RFID EPC tag data. Designed and built BizTalk server project system for visual studio.