Oct 2017 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · Palo Alto, California

• Engineering manager on Confluent Kafka Connect and Platform Eng team.

Jun 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Engineering manager on web team

Feb 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led engineering team at Yammer to build Infrastructure platform at scale. Managed a team of twelve awesome engineers with focus on:
• Building Infrastructure platform to run Docker containers in Azure using Mesos.
• Establishing and maintaining compliance on distributed systems that stores customers data.
• Managing and scaling events pipeline to help gain insight on customer analytics and experiments.
• Daily tasks involve:
• Bringing together key stakeholders across org and develop roadmap for the team.
• Leading design and technical review with multiple teams.
• Providing technical guidance and best practices to project teams.
• Growing the team and hiring motivated engineers.
• Coaching and mentoring engineers on their career development.
• Conducting regular team meetings & 1-1s
• Performing quarterly goal setting and review with direct reports.

Feb 2013 – Feb 2015 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Reduced MTTR for feed processing service by reconfiguring the cluster layout and fixing critical bugs that impacted performance during regular outage periods. [Java]
• Streamlined flow of incoming posts to Yammer via email by leveraging third party cloud based email provider. This also reduced operational burden of maintaining of in house SMTP servers [Java]
• Led a team of four engineers to improve existing weekly digest architecture by implementing an algorithm to send users relevant unseen threads in email digests. This helped drive user engagement higher [Java]

Oct 2011 – Feb 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco, CA

• Improved overall provisioning experience in Azure cloud by developing a REST based service using Azure APIs. The service provided developers the flexibility to horizontally scale up or down their cluster without involving operations team. [Java, REST]
• Streamlined operational tasks by designing and implementing node provisioning service similar to that of Amazon EC2. The service performs auto discovery of un-provisioned nodes in data center and provision them to be able to add to any existing service. [Java, Guava, Mustache]
• Reduced test runtimes by 90% by designing and implementing distributed build system using Jenkins and Amazon’s EC2 cloud infrastructure. [Java, Ruby, Jenkins]
• Improved developers setup time by implementing developer VM using open source project Vagrant that runs entire stack of services needed to run Yammer. [Ruby, Vagrant, Virtualbox, Nginx]
• Increased developer efficiency by designing and implementing turnkey solution based dashboard UI leveraging Twitter’s bootstrap to manage services from one place. [Javascript, Mustache, Sinatra, Memcached, Ruby, REST]

Mar 2009 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Jose, CA

• Unified numerous deployment tools into a single framework for managing our production storage service, which consists of hundreds of machines. This unified framework also greatly reduced the time and effort required to develop new tools and functionality for operating our service. [Python]
• Improved reliability and reduced time required for production deployments and maintenance operations by building tools that guide the user through complex operational procedures in simple and intuitive ways. [Python]
• Implemented multi-threaded test functionality and re-designed parts of framework reducing the average automated test run time by 75% during production deployments. [Java]
• Developed a custom multi-threaded data generator tool to simulate real world production like data. Further extended and implemented automated data modification and validation tool that would modify the data and validate synchronicity through the system. [Java]
• Designed and implemented custom load/ longevity test framework replacing Apache’s Jmeter. [Java]

Jun 2008 – Aug 2008 · 2 mos · New York, NY

• Improved trader efficiency by unifying their daily profit/ loss statements, net revenue, cash gain/ loss by designing and developing a web application portal. [Adobe Flex, Java]
• Designed and developed trader portal to help them analyze their market share and risks in the position held. [Adobe Flex, Java]

Jun 2007 – Aug 2007 · 2 mos · New York, NY

• • Responsible for designing and developing web applications for clients and implementing stored procedures to allow connectivity to the database. [C#, MS SQL]