Mar 2019 – Jan 2020 · 10 mos

• Owns the technical vision and provides technical directions to a globally diverse team that builds core tech for Alexa Skills Certification and Monitoring.
• Part of leadership team that guide the organization on strategic planning, setting goals, evaluating talent, participating in Organizational Leadership Reviews, driving tech forums, actively mentoring fellow SDEs and driving Operational Excellence.
• Exemplary practitioner, hands-on engineer, delivering artifacts that set the standard for engineering excellence across product life cycle.
• Functionally decompose highly complex/ambiguous problems into simple, straight-forward solutions that demonstrate significant creativity, high judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.
• Owns and pushes the strategic technical roadmap, establishes engineering processes, sets standards for effective documentation, design, and code.
• Mentoring fellow engineers in the organization, helping them in their career growth and on tech best practices.
• Focus areas include Information Retrieval, Big data analytics, Serverless computing, Natural Language Processing, Information security.

Oct 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Tech leader for development of monitoring platform for Alexa Skills.
• Architected and delivered real-time big data processing system, that processes >250 MM messages every day. Evaluated multiple tech choices and identified candidate architecture solutions balancing the trade-offs.
• The architecture included a real-time big data processing sub-system implemented using Kinesis Streams/Apache spark; a highly scalable filtering pipeline implemented using Serverless computing, sentiment analysis; a flexible reverse-search engine; a framework for unstructured analysis of data using Elasticsearch; a data-warehouse for structured analysis of data.

Aug 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Designed and implemented tag-based authorization for AWS EMR.
• Designed and strategized the implementation for supporting Kerberos on EMR.
• Defined strategies for reducing memory footprint for supporting AWS IoT-Greengrass on resource constrained devices.

Dec 2013 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Lead Architect and end-to-end technical owner for supporting SD Cards on Fire OS based devices (Fire TV and Fire Tablets).
• Worked on customized Android framework components and optimizations related to power management, memory/storage management and accessories integration.
• Focus areas: Android internals, Java, C programming.

Jan 2009 – Dec 2013 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Contribute toward Business and Technology Roadmap.for requirements management, Process Compliance and Knowledge management.
• Liaison between Product Management and Engineering team. Presenting technical information to non-technical audiences and converting customer requirements/Business needs to Technical requirements that would be easily understood by technical teams.
• Conduct Voice-of-Customer interviews and gather the needs of the customers.
• Creating a Conceptual Solution to the problem and proving the feasibility
• Negotiating and Generating System/Product specifications that meets all stake holders needs
• Defining the Systems/Product Architectures and perform governance activities across the product’s life cycle.
• Collaborating with Team to translate the Architecture into Detail Design and Development. Enabling the team to take right technical decision.
• Collaborating with Qualification team to ensure system/Product’s functional and Quality requirements are met.
• Mentoring other Architects and team members.
• Collaborations with different stakeholders including, Research labs, Marketing/Sales teams, Site Installation Engineers, Customers, and Project teams.

Jul 2008 – Dec 2008 · 5 mos

• Critical Design Reviews on products related to Honeywell Security Systems.
• Identifying Competency needs of people working on Honeywell Access Systems and forecasting the same for planning Organization’s strategies. (STRAP)
• Architecting next generation access control systems.
• Performing design audits for critical programs executed in Honeywell Access systems.
• Driving Innovation and ensuring protection of organization’s Intellectual Properties (IP).
• Driving reuse across Honeywell Access system products.
• Knowledge Management (Competency framework, competency network analysis, training) in the domain.

Aug 2007 – Jul 2008 · 11 mos

• Defining product specification, Requirement change management, process and integration strategies,
• estimation of product size and efforts using Function point and use case analysis,
• creation of Work breakdown structure, Architecture/Design analysis, establishing and implementing change control process,
• Risk analysis and mitigation using FMEA, ensuring process compliance, identification of root-cause of product issues using Root cause analysis(RCA), Project post-mortem and identification of control plans,
• development of training plans for team members.
• Ensuring Quality and schedule.
• Metrics based project management and ensuring process compliance. (CMMi, Six sigma)
• People management – recruitment, conducting appraisals, allocating tasks to team, tracking team’s progress, mentoring, managing conflicts of interests.
• Customer communication.and support.

Apr 2005 – Aug 2007 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Jul 2003 – Apr 2005 · 1 yr 9 mos