Kumar Shailove — VP of Engineering

❏ Software Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience in Software Development, Management, Leadership ❏ Experience in building and retaining highly effective, motivated and progressive teams from scratch ❏ Experience Managing a diverse team size of 80+ developers, architects, QA, DevOps Engineers, Information Security, and Program Managers ❏ Building scalable, highly available, resilient, extendable, secured architecture of data-intensive distributed systems ❏ Built, scaled and managed systems of very high scale enterprise grade system (30 Billion Ad Requests per day and more than 100 TB of data per day). ❏ Led complex and strategic initiatives and interact with globally distributed engineering, product, operations and senior leadership teams ❏ Architect, Design, Develop & Implement frameworks and application software components using Cloud and Enterprise/Open Source technologies. ❏ Results-oriented Innovator, accomplished in developing Technology Solutions for Complex Business requirements. ❏ Good understanding of distributed systems, micro-services, messaging systems, and associated architectural patterns ❏ Experience in leading and managing cross-functional and cross-geographical development teams

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Ad Tech leader with extensive experience in engineering management and cloud technologies.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 22 yrs 4 mos

Skills

Leadership
Engineering Management
Coaching & Mentoring
Leadership Development Coaching
Cloud Technologies

Career Highlights

20+ years of software engineering leadership experience.
Expert in building high scale distributed systems.
Passionate mentor and coach for emerging leaders.

Work Experience

Kumar Shailove

Leadership, Career and Life Coach (Pro Bono) (2 yrs 3 mos)

Hiver

VP of Engineering (5 yrs 3 mos)

InMobi

Director Of Engineering - InMobi Demand Side Platform (DSP) (4 yrs 10 mos)

Digital Guardian (Through Armor5 Acquisition)

Engineering Manager (1 yr 6 mos)

Armor5 (acquired by Digital Guardian)

Engineering Manager (2 yrs 7 mos)

Expedia, Inc.

Manager, Package Discovery Services (10 mos)

Adobe Systems

Sr. Engineering Lead/Manager (6 yrs 7 mos)

Quark Media House India Pvt. Ltd

Software Engineer (2 yrs 3 mos)

Education

LEAD - Advanced Management Program ⚉ Class of '22 ⚉ at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Grow More Coach at Grow More Avenues

Chief Technology Officer Program at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Master of Science (M.S.) at University of Allahabad

Kumar Shailove

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years of software engineering leadership experience.
Expert in building high scale distributed systems.
Passionate mentor and coach for emerging leaders.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Ad Tech leader with extensive experience in engineering management and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipEngineering ManagementCoaching & MentoringLeadership Development CoachingCloud Technologies

Other Skills

EngineeringLife CoachingNode.jsJavaScriptSoftware DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesScrumWeb ServicesRequirements AnalysisSoftware Project ManagementWeb ApplicationsTest AutomationSoftware Quality AssuranceQuality AssuranceManual Testing

About

Experience

22 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Kumar shailove

Leadership, Career and Life Coach (Pro Bono)

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Remote · Hybrid

Outside of work, I am passionate about giving back to the community by coaching and mentoring people on various topics, and I feel this offering creates the best blend of my passion, skills and experience.
I am a professionally Certified Coach from Grow More Avenues. I believe in the power of coaching and mentoring. I have been actively involved in mentoring and coaching aspiring and emerging leaders. In my free time, I also enjoy reading and learning about leadership and management principles. These learnings continue to empower me to help myself in my role as a VP of Engineering at Hiver; and also enables me to share my learnings with emerging leaders to help them grow in their leadership journey.
I am providing my service for free to give back to the community and make the world a better place. Feel free to book a free coaching session with me using below link:-
https://topmate.io/kumar_shailove

Coaching & MentoringLeadership Development CoachingLife Coaching

Hiver

VP of Engineering

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Building the next generation, AI Powered, high scale Omnichannel helpdesk platform. Always open to talk to and learn from smart, highly energetic and talented individuals all levels, challenging status quo every single day for whom is a habit. If this excites you, do not hesitate to drop a direct message.

LeadershipEngineeringEngineering Management

Inmobi

Director Of Engineering - InMobi Demand Side Platform (DSP)

May 2016 – Mar 2021 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

❏ Setup the DSP engineering team from scratch and grew it to a 25-member team, from 1 to 1 Million Ad Requests per second, few KBs to >10 TeraBytes of data processed per day, and supported a media revenue of $50M ARR.
❏ Led the Engineering Team in InMobi Demand Side Platform
❏ Owned the complete engineering lifecycle and end-to-end delivery of few of the most critical systems of InMobi Ad Cloud business.
❏ Medium and long-term tech strategy and roadmap for the organization. Closely working with Technology partners to co-build tech solutions for complex business problems.
❏ Leading and Managing development of high scale distributed Ad Serving and Bidding
Platform at 1 Million Ad Requests per second and processing more than 10 Terrabytes of data - all on Azure Cloud Native.
❏ Leading migration of complete Data Centre based deployments to Microsoft Azure Cloud
Platform
❏ Expertise in development, management, and maintenance of highly scalable and available systems. Long experience in hiring, mentoring, growing and retaining talent.

Engineering ManagementCloud Technologies

Digital guardian (through armor5 acquisition)

Engineering Manager

Oct 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Acquisition Coverage:
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/10/16/673823/10102843/en/Digital-Guardian-Acquires-Armor5.html
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/10/16/673823/10102843/en/Digital-Guardian-Acquires-Armor5.html
https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2014/10/digital-guardian-enters-world-of-mobile-and-cloud.html

Armor5 (acquired by digital guardian)

Engineering Manager

Sep 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Engineering Manager/India Engineering Head Managing a team of Software Developers, SDETs and QA Engineers for managing end-to-end delivery of several key Server components in Armor5 technology stack, managing cloud infrastructure, and overall product features. My role starts right from ideation of product features till implementation - Project Management, technical leadership, People management, appraisals, reviewing design documents, code review, overall test strategy, test execution and project reporting.
Project/Program Management, Requirements, Scoping, Risk Analysis and Management.
Engineering/QA Management - Design, Development, Testing and Support
Passionate about Quality and automation. Have experience in setting up E2E automation from scratch.
Vendor/Stakeholder Management.
An Avid Agile practitioner

Expedia, inc.

Manager, Package Discovery Services

Nov 2012 – Sep 2013 · 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

❏ Built a team of talented and energetic Software Engineers from scratch.
❏ Responsible for on-boarding, mentoring, appraisals, performance and team management.
❏ Project Management, Stakeholder management, Vendor management.
❏ Managed Development, Testing and Operational Management of Package Discovery and
Booking Web Services Suite, involvement from Requirements phase to Delivery phase.
❏ Managed few key web services of PDS family - the backbone of Expedia Packages Business. Requirements Analysis and Review, Project Planning, Development of Automation Frameworks, Quality Management, Team Management.

Adobe systems

Sr. Engineering Lead/Manager

Apr 2006 – Nov 2012 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore/Noida · On-site

❏ LM Server is a part of Adobe Licensing Infrastructure which provides RESTful web services to enable licensing features (online serial validation, activation, online upgrade, subscriptions) across Adobe desktop applications.
❏ Led a team of six engineers.
❏ Development and Testing of web services/C++ based desktop libraries (dll/lib).
❏ Cross-platform technologies developed to cater the needs of all the installation/deployment
related needs of all the Adobe Products/Suites.
❏ It uses an XML based approach to author and deploy the product/suite installers.
❏ Technologies: C/C++, Perl, Python

Quark media house india pvt. ltd

Software Engineer

Jan 2004 – Apr 2006 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Mohali, Punjab

❏ Development and Testing of AppleScript feature in QuarkXPress.
❏ Single-handedly coded recovery system for the automation tool Eggplant using AppleScript
❏ Multiple performance and spot awards, Quark Pro, Quark Pro+
❏ Technologies: C/C++, AppleScript