Sharath Upadhya

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

16 years of experience in engineering and management.
Strong collaborative relationships with cross-functional partners.
Passionate about team empowerment and career development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Manager with extensive experience in team leadership and software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaJavascript

Other Skills

HTMLC++HibernateSpringMySQLOracle SQLFlexMaven2Android Development

About

I am an Engineering Manager with a 16 years of strong experience in both technical and management. I am passionate about driving results, enabling and empowering my team to do meaningful work. My strengths lie in building meaningful relationship and trust with my team. This has made my transition from being an engineer in the team to managing the team very smooth and easy. It has helped me build a strong collaborative relationship with my cross functional partners(product, design).

Experience

16 yrs

Total Experience

4 yrs

Average Tenure

7 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Slack

4 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Lead front end and back end engineers in developing platforms
for rich file previews and frameworks for 3rd Party integration to automate your workflows in Slack.
Actively review design spec and provide technical guidance for the
team while actively contributing to development life-cycle with
security fixes and code refactoring.
Collaborate with product managers to establish long-term vision
and short-term goals that meet business needs.
Drive career development by aligning individual strengths with
company objectives.

JavaJavaScriptHTMLC++HibernateSpring+2

Engineering Manager - Platform

Oct 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

Engineering Manager, Adoption - Expansion

Jan 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

Directed project initiatives to enhance Slack Connect’s invite experience, managing lifecycle from ideation to delivery.
Collaborated with engineering, product, and UX teams to build road map for the team.
Mentored junior engineers, promoting professional development and technical proficiency.
Facilitated recruitment of exceptional technical talent to
strengthen team capabilities.
Implemented best practices in Agile development and project management to optimize team performance.

Senior Software Developer

Jun 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Worked on redesigning and building a scalable import tool that migrates data from various Slack Competitors like HipChat, Flowdock, Chatwork etc.
Worked on redesigning APIs to improve Performance and scale it for Slack Enterprise customers.
Worked with product and design in defining and building APIs to support Request to Invite feature of Slack.
Being the first backend engineer in the team, helped build a strong backend team by onboarding and mentoring engineers.
Lead planning, smooth execution of multiple projects within defined timelines by partnering with frontend engineers, product and design.

JavaJavaScriptHTMLC++

Apple

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2015 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

Worked on building features for Find my iPhone,Find my Friends apps on iPhone.
Responsible for designing, developing and testing Find my Friends App Apis for Apple Watch.

Yahoo

Tech Yahoo - Software Aps Dev Eng

Nov 2013 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · United States

As a software developer, I was responsible for designing and developing various features for Personalized Ad Serving for Digital Content.
I worked on Ad Serving system that serves personalized ads for Users on Yahoo property pages.
Worked on refactoring/re building the REST Apis, that are used to build creatives.
Worked on reporting systems for the creatives.

Intuit

4 roles

Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2013 – Oct 2013 · 4 mos · Mountain View

Working on building Payments and Commerce Solutions for Small Business Owners and their counter parts.

Software Engineer Intern

Feb 2013 – May 2013 · 3 mos · Mountain View

Software Engineer Intern

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos · Mountain View

Redesigned a core component that was written on PHP in Java Stack for Intuit Business Directory.

Software engineer

Aug 2008 – Aug 2011 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

As a Software Engineer started with an experiment product for Indian farmers, which is currently used by 1 million farmers in India. Its called Intuit Fasal Labs.
As an Engineer I was responsible for:
Desinging the back end framework in Java to frame and send customized SMS for millions of farmers.
Website development using Flex.
Build Management using Maven.
Android Mobile app development.
I was also playing the role of Innovation Catalyst to understand customer pain points and come up with quick prototypes.