Abbas Suterwala

CEO

Pune, Maharashtra, India19 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 15 years of experience in engineering leadership.
Expert in building and optimizing large scale distributed systems.
Proven track record of managing high-performing engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in SaaS and distributed systems engineering.

Contact

abbass786@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAndroidCC++Core JavaE-commerceEclipseEngineeringJSPJavaJava Enterprise EditionJavaScriptLarge Scale SystemsManagementNoSQL

About

Engineering leader with over 15 years of experience in designing, building and optimizing large scale, data intensive distributed systems. Experienced Software Engineer/Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry.

Experience

19 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Amazon

2 roles

Software Development Manager - 3 (AWS)

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Amazon RDS Open Source Engines (ROSE) team manages Open Source based database services in Amazon RDS include PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB. We are obsessed about delivering secured, highly available, easy to use managed database experience with ever-increasing innovations while contributing back to open source.

Software Development Manager - 3 (Devices Services)

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Pubmatic

3 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2020 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

Lead Distributed Engineering teams to manage state of the art Product development. (Managing 25+ engineering across 4 products).
Build products based on collaboration with Product managers and other stakeholders.(Have done 200+ releases in products across 4 products in the last 4 years).
Build and Scale distributed systems with high scale.
A few concrete examples of distributed systems build and released under my leadership
Scaled the Ads scanning system with a complete new event-based architecture to handle 7x of its scale.
Build an Ads.txt crawler to crawl 3 million+ domains daily - https://pubmatic.com/blog/auto-scaling-ads-txt-crawler/
Recruit, Manage and grow top engineering talent.

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

Engineering Manager

Oct 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

Amazon

2 roles

Software Development Engineer 3

Jul 2017 – Sep 2017 · 2 mos

As a Software Development Engineer I was involved in the Product architecture (the client app and server service) design, development and unit testing of some of core Kindle/Android applications and server services which power those apps.
Design and build a high scalable distributed server side system powering the cards on the right panel of fire phone using various AWS services.
To implement and maintain the various functionalities of the products using efficient data structures and algorithms.
To train and mentor juniors/interns in the project and help them in analysis of their development tasks.

Software Development Engineer 2

Jul 2013 – Jul 2017 · 4 yrs

3d plm software solutions private limited

Tech Lead

Dec 2008 – Jul 2013 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Pune

As a Tech Lead I was leading the Product's re-architecture, , design, development and unit testing of CATIA V5 integration and common xCAD integrations infrastructure.
To design a common infrastructure so that there could be maximum code sharing between the different xCAD integration products.
To lead a team of 6 developers and track their deliverables.
To develop and enhance the module to increase efficiency and incorporate changes in supporting systems.
Preparing automated test cases for new functionality and increase code coverage.

Tech mahindra

Technical Associate

Jul 2006 – Nov 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Pune Area, India

As a Programmer I was involved in the design, development and unit testing of a module called HomeMovers.
Maintaining and enhancements of modules named HomeMovers,EOI,Installation Finder,Provisional Appointments.