Apr 2022 – Sep 2022 · 5 mos · Noida, Bangalore · Hybrid

• Building and leading a highly talented team of software engineers to Design, Develop, and Maintain the key SaaS products of the company. Ensure that the services meet business requirements as well as non-functional requirements in areas such as performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Our product suite, WorkInSync, is a SaaS solution that helps improve employee productivity in the new normal of hybrid workspaces. We are removing friction from every touchpoint an employee has in a workday, from working at home to booking a desk, meal, printer, or parking in the office or enabling collaboration between remote teams. We are building a global enterprise-grade SaaS product suite being used by the likes of Google, Facebook, and many other Fortune 100 companies across 3 continents.

Apr 2017 – Feb 2022 · 4 yrs 10 mos

• Managing engineering for the Adobe Graphics Manager (AGM), PDF Library in C++/Java, and SVG Library.
• AGM is the core graphics library that is used to draw artwork in Acrobat, InDesign, and Acrobat. PDFlibrary is used by various Adobe products, including Acrobat, to read and write PDFs. SVG library provides SVG file parsing and writing functionality. All these libraries support multiple OS, and multiple device types.
• Leading cross group performance improvement effort, mainly involving GPU programming. Introduced use of JIRA for sprint/agile management. Improved other engineering practices and processes, such as code reviews, unit tests, estimation.. Significantly ramped up domain knowledge in the team. Helped recruit senior engineers for the team. Extensive focus on people development and performance management

Jan 2014 – Apr 2017 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Leading Engineering, QA and Ops teams working on SaaS products providing Business Intelligence solutions for Hospitality and Travel industry. Set up engineering processes, engineering tools such as Jira, and agile development using Scrum. Architected key pieces of performance improvements, reliability improvements, move to Big data and Cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Managed architecture, design, delivery and product management of custom data analytics products for key accounts contributing multi million dollars in revenue.
• Achieved significant operational savings through automation and improvements in system reliability and operability, making use of tools such as Nagios, SumoLogic, Splunk, Cloudwatch, NewRelic, and DataDog.
• Managed engineering teams working on high scale and performance, Web Services, Agile, Scrum, C#, C++,.Net, Amazon EC2, CloudFront, Amazon Dynamo, MongoDB, SaaS, Solr, AWS SQS, AWS RDS, AWS Kinesis, Redshift, Linux.

May 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Managed the online portal of the company running a successful real estate portal, www.proptiger.com.
• Managed the product, QA, Ops and Engineering team. Ramped up the team from 5 to 20. Achieved 100% increase the site traffic through new feature launches, and engineering improvements. Achieved 30% reduction in bounce rate by improving site performance, and page redesign. Established key business metrics and tracked improvements over time
• Launched the mobile site, and mobile app on Android.
• Made extensive use of analytical, heat map, and mouse click tracking tools, such as CrazyEgg, Google Analytics and ClickTale, to understand user behavior and to drive site improvements
• Technology Areas –LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), Amazon AWS, Agile, Solr, CloudFront

Nov 2007 – Apr 2011 · 3 yrs 5 mos · unspecified

• In a techno-managerial role, managed engineering teams developing four different very high scale, high performance, and highly reliable internet properties and platforms. Managed Ratings & Reviews, Message Boards, Yahoo Application Platform (YAP), and Rate Limiter platforms. Handled following functions:
• Recruited, retained, and effectively managed engineering teams
• Effectively aligned team goals with the organization and actively sets priorities
• Ensured trouble free frequent product releases using agile/scrum. Focused on continuous improvements and adoption of processes such as agile, fixed release cycles, and detailed PRDs
• Delivered products against stringent SLA requirements on scale, latencies and resource utilization
• Handled technical management, design/architecture, and ops support for multiple products
• Created and brought into usage development and testing policies and processes
• Ensured high reliability and availability of the sites. Significantly increased uptime to 3 9s.
• Worked on LAMP, C++, Agile, SaaS, PaaS, high scale and performance, high reliability systems. Hands on Coding, Solr

Jul 2006 – Oct 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Managed a team of software and QA engineers developing software for Electron Beam machines (Electron Microscopes) used for yield management in VLSI/Semiconductor industry. Handled technical management, people management, delivery management, and company wide development process improvements.

Sep 2004 – Jun 2006 · 1 yr 9 mos

• As a Member of Visual Studio team worked on product definition, set product scope and vision, wrote detailed product specifications, and worked with engineering teams to manage the product from inception to launch. Managed the launch of V1 product built from ground up. Handled customer communications at events like developer conferences and product launch. Engaged with customers to understand requirements and promote products

May 2002 – Sep 2004 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Delhi

• Managed areas of General Management, Finance, Marketing, and Engineering Management for my startup dealing in telecom Value Added Services and Products.

Mar 1999 – May 2002 · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco

• Designed, and developed the core telecom application for this web/telecom startup.

Jun 1996 – Mar 1999 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• As a member of Digital Cellular team, worked from inception to launch of a new fixed wireless phone. Developed the embedded software and call control features of the phone.