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Chandra Shekhar Joshi

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Successfully transitioned to Amazon with a first-attempt interview success.
  • Coached over 100 engineers in career development.
  • Led significant projects that improved operational efficiency.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong leadership in engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementSystems DesignArtificial Intelligence (ai)ArchitecturePeople Management

Other Skills

AWS ServicesAgile MethodologiesAlgorithm AnalysisAlgorithm DesignAngularAngularJSBehavioral InterviewingCCSSCareer DevelopmentCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Core JavaData StructuresDatabase-driven Web ApplicationsDistributed Systems

About

4 years before I got demoted from leading a team of 15 engineers to 1 engineer. I doubted myself, if I am good at leading teams or not. My managers, colleagues (๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ญ๐˜บ) told me to stop leading the team. Then one day without any agenda, I called my ex-manager, who then had moved to Amazon. We spoke for an hour. He reminded me of my work and abilities when he used to be my manager. He told me what matters in career and how I was in a wrong place at a wrong time We then met again, but this time with agenda of exactly what I needed to do, to crack Amazon interview. I applied, and cracked the interview in the very first attempt. And after joining Amazon, I already got promoted once. ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ. Which taught me 3 very important lessons. # 1 You are given one life. Don't spoil it because of being in wrong place. # 2 Be closer to those who motivate & mentor you. Avoid everyone else. # 3 Learning is the only thing that doesn't change. Rest all is temporary. In last 5 months I spoke to 50+ of you from LinkedIn. In those meetings, I realised there are many in the same place where I was 4 years ago. It is the state of "self doubt", "constant confusion", "frustration". This state not only stops your career growth but also kills your personal life. Thats why I made it my mission to help software professionals in achieving their true career potential and live fulfilling life. I do it in 2 ways. [1] By coaching on how to crack Big tech FAANG+ interviews (behavioural) [2] By coaching on how to get promoted (career growth). I do it by sharing result and action oriented "systems" and "frameworks". These are proven frameworks that I have developed for myself & learned from others. Follow me (and press bell icon) for getting these systems and frameworks. If you want advise or coaching for your unique situation, DM me "COACH"

Experience

15 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

2 roles

Software Development Manager

Feb 2022 โ€“ Present ยท 4 yrs 4 mos

  • As an engineering manager in Amazon AppStore, I work on defining and executing the strategy and roadmap of my business. I lead a team of 10+ amazing engineers who work backwards from customer problems. We build scalable solutions using cutting-edge tools from AWS services, Machine learning, and Generative AI. Our products have reduced the time taken in application testing by 5 times using machine learning-based solutions.
  • As a manager, I have coached 100+ engineers in their career development and built a strong team of problem-solving, self-driven individuals.
ArchitectureInterviewingHigh-Level DesignCareer DevelopmentDistributed SystemsArtificial Intelligence (AI)+5

Software Development Manager

Apr 2021 โ€“ Feb 2022 ยท 10 mos

  • Leading the engineering team, that powers the backend of the Product Details page of Amazon shopping site worldwide, top 10 visited page on internet.
ArchitectureHigh-Level DesignCareer DevelopmentDistributed SystemsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Systems Design+4

Goldman sachs

3 roles

Vice President

Promoted

Jan 2018 โ€“ Apr 2021 ยท 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Leadership | Hiring & Mentoring | Big Data | Data pipeline
  • Designed and managed a team for strategic rebuilt of conflict management system to support the new advanced nature of business with futuristic tech stack using Elasticsearch, microservices & Angular etc. It uses event sourcing in UI to create a reactive front end using RxJS.
  • Architected & managed a team to optimize the rule based tagging to highlight potential risks related to deals using event driven architecture. This improved the existing rule based system and reduced the noise by 80%.
  • Managed a team to create a self-service reporting dashboard using Elasticsearch & Angular. This product saved 208 business days/year for business.
  • Executed a learning and training program for Legal, Compliance and Audit business unit by Chairing learning and training committee. This committee delivered 500+ person hours of training and mentorship
ArchitectureInterviewingHigh-Level DesignCareer DevelopmentDistributed SystemsSystems Design+3

Associate Programmer

Promoted

Jan 2016 โ€“ Dec 2017 ยท 1 yr 11 mos

  • Web & Mobile | Event Sourcing | Mentoring | Training
  • Managed a team of interns to create a product for automating various manual approval processes by leveraging JBPM & microservices using RESTful architecture. This system currently hosts 100+ business processes and over 1M unique instances of those processes.
  • Influenced the business to get funding for a project by implementing a system showcasing how emails can be connected with the application to track the conversation which led to a decision for a deal.
  • Applied Event sourcing with RabbitMQ and ElasticSearch in implementing a data pipeline for conflict management system so that users can execute searches & reports in near real time.
  • Led & designed a workflow to document the decision taken during conflict approval process. Further improved the workflow by extending it to junior users, without compromising the risk associated with approval. This led to 70% faster issue approvals.
ArchitectureSystems Design

Analyst programmer

Nov 2013 โ€“ Dec 2015 ยท 2 yrs 1 mo

Accenture

Senior Programmer

Apr 2011 โ€“ Oct 2013 ยท 2 yrs 6 mos ยท Bangalore

  • Web | Enterprise Application Development | Agile | TDD
  • Reduced the coding time by 20% by creating a reusable UI component using Google Web Toolkit, leading to a 70% reduction in coding time in similar requirements.
  • Redesigned the architecture of a GWT based page, which lead to 70% less defects.
  • Automated the copy/paste of Review comments from word file to an excel file using POI library, leading to a 100% reduction in developerโ€™s time.
  • Performed the role of Subject Matter Expert for GWT and Selenium testing tool in Accenture.
  • Created a team to organize technical sessions and discussions for the project, leading to a decline of 30% questions/doubts from the new joiners and other team members.

Favworks

Software Engineer

Aug 2010 โ€“ Mar 2011 ยท 7 mos

  • Application Developer | Customer Relationship Management Tool | Billing Tools
  • Reduced the time taken in organizing the companyโ€™s billing/client/project information by 80% by developing a Billing Software, which was later launched as one of the companyโ€™s product.
  • Developed a CRM and Social Network from scratch using PHP, MySql and JQuery.

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Advance strategic management program โ€” Business and Personal/Financial Services Marketing Operations

Jan 2021 โ€“ Jan 2022

Uttarakhand Technical University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) โ€” Computer Science

Jan 2006 โ€“ Jan 2010

VMJMGIC

PUC โ€” Mathematics

Jan 2003 โ€“ Jan 2005

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