Harvinder Ghotra

Director of Engineering

New York, New York, United States11 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Senior Engineering Manager with extensive leadership experience.
Proficient in C/C++ and Linux with a strong software development background.
Expertise in validating and porting compilers for major platforms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Engineering Manager with expertise in software development and compiler validation.

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Skills

Core Skills

C/c++Linux

Other Skills

UnixJCLPerlBash scriptingRational Team ConcertGitJavaSQLPythonC++BashEclipseJavaScriptCSSOperating Systems

Experience

11 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

7 mos

Current Experience

Cohere

Senior Engineering Manager

Nov 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

Datadog

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Nov 2022 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · New York, United States · Remote

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · New York, United States · Remote

Yellowheart

Engineering Lead

May 2019 – Apr 2020 · 11 mos · New York, United States

Intersection co.

2 roles

Senior Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2018 – May 2019 · 7 mos · Greater New York City Area

Engineer

Jul 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

Ibm

2 roles

Software Engineer - Watson Data Platform

May 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

Compiler Engineer - XL C/C++ on z/OS

May 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

Validate new features added to the XL C/C++ Compilers for AIX, zOS and Linux to assure C/C++ ISO standards compliance
Port open source applications using XL C/C++ compilers on the AIX, Linux, zOS, and zLinux platforms to expand test coverage
Perform weekly test runs, investigate test failures and report defects or possible regressions after determining faulty components
Technologies: Linux, Unix, C/C++, JCL, Perl, Bash scripting, Rational Team Concert, Git

LinuxUnixC/C++JCLPerlBash scripting+2

Phashtag

Software Engineer

Feb 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Toronto

Phashtag uses image recognition to make sense of visual conversations taking place on social media. We find logos hidden within images posted to social media, and provide insights on brand exposure and trends. Our regional/temporal interest monitoring enable us to monitor your brand's popularity in a specific place and time - great for gathering post-campaign analytics.
Technologies: basically everything under the sun ..but primarily the Microsoft Stack (ASP.NET MVC (C#), SQL Server, Azure .. ), Visual Studio as IDE, Perforce for versioning, Java (Netty, OpenCV, etc.. ) for image recognition and cross-platform applications