Kausik Ghatak

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20 years of experience in software engineering.
Expertise in building high-performance technology teams.
Proven track record in leading AI-first mobile solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Software Engineering with a focus on E-commerce and AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team BuildingPeople ManagementJava

Other Skills

Technical RecruitingE-commerceDistributed SystemsDesign PatternsObject Oriented DesignRUnixPerlAgile MethodologiesC++CAlgorithmsSQLAlgorithm DesignSoftware Development

About

Aspiring to lead and drive impactful initiatives in the Software industry, particularly in Mobile and Web technologies, Intelligent Edge, and Intelligent Cloud domains. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, including a decade of management expertise, I bring deep functional knowledge in scalable cloud-first and mobile-first technologies, as well as AI-enabled solutions and innovations. My current role as Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft involves leading companywide initiatives in the Microsoft Teams Platform, solving complex technical challenges with cross- functional teams. Additionally, I drive team building and hiring initiatives for high- performance technology teams, ensuring the development of a strong engineering culture. - 20 years of overall industry expertise. - 10 Years of Management Experience, managing and mentoring Principal level ICs and Ems - Leading Microsoft wide Hyper Scale AI first Mobile first solutions. (Outlook, Office and Microsoft Teams) - Microsoft Hiring and team building. Having decade of hiring and team building expertise. - Driving cross functional and cross organisation initiatives delivering core impact for strategic products. (Microsoft o365 Products, Amazon Detail page system etc.) - Holding multiple Patents in different fields of Software Engineering. - Multiple Leadership Accolades for Innovation, Growth, Hiring contributions.

Experience

21 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Principal Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

Microsoft Teams

Team BuildingPeople ManagementTechnical Recruiting

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Oct 2016 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Team BuildingPeople ManagementTechnical Recruiting

Snapdeal

2 roles

Sr. Engineering Manager

Apr 2016 – Nov 2016 · 7 mos

Building the next generation Fraud Management System for Snapdeal. Understand the patterns of Fraudulent behaviour of the Marketplace and design right strategy to handle those behaviour while ensuring the best user experience for the genuine customers.
Taking User Generated Content(Reviews and Ratings, Questions and Answer, Feedback ...) systems to the next level. Leveraging full potential of UGC in various important business functions to provide the best Customer Experience.

JavaTeam BuildingPeople ManagementTechnical Recruiting

Engineering Manager II

Apr 2015 – Mar 2016 · 11 mos

User generated content(UGC) is one of the most important components of any eCommerce platform. The rich content in the form of product reviews, ratings, question-answers, seller ratings, FAQ, feedback is extremely valuable resource to various other components and decision making process.
As part of this we are building the next generation platform and the entire ecosystem that consists of the following:
# End to end distributed, high available and low latency Tech stack.
# Front end development (Android, mSite and Web component for UGC)
# Data Science stack.
# Business analytics and Reporting.
# Scalability

JavaTeam BuildingPeople ManagementTechnical Recruiting

Amazon

Software Engineer

Mar 2013 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

# End to end delivery of technical projects, building prototypes, bring in business perspective.
# Technology leadership with Hands on experience in diverse technologies,
# Evaluating and exploring new technology solutions for solving core business problems.
# Working closely with manager for building product roadmap, guiding and mentoring people, contributing in "m-team" for long term team’s direction and also focus on short term problems (technical and process related)
# Working with multiple technology and business team in driving company wide projects.

JavaTechnical Recruiting