Gaurav Phapale

Senior Software Engineer

Mountain View, California, United States18 yrs 3 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led cross-functional teams to drive SEO growth.
Developed innovative solutions for user engagement.
Expert in building scalable backend systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Backend Engineer with strong SEO and analytics expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

SeoSoftware DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentData Analytics

Other Skills

App ActivationCollaborationAnalyticsMonitoringAuditingIntegrationCrosslinkingMachine TranslationEmail MarketingUser ExperienceREST APIsContent ManagementBusiness IntelligenceComputer ScienceDistributed Systems

About

Software Engineer with penchant for building high scale distributed web products. I love working on backend technologies and play around data.

Experience

18 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

11 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

5 roles

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Growth

Promoted

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

Supporting Top-of-funnel efforts to drive acquisition through App Activation, SEO, Social, Syndication, and SEM with two teams of smart engineers, and collaborating with PM/DS/UX/BizOps/BD/UXR teams.
App Activation program involves multiple cross-functional teams to drive OEM preloads, Marketing and on-platform conversions. The team is launched LinkedIn Windows app, Android Dynamic App Icons and iOS Widgets to drive top of funnel acquisition and retention.
SEO team focuses on Content Discovery through SEO/Social/Syndication efforts to help establish LinkedIn as a Knowledge Marketplace for the users on other search/social/content platforms. The team has driven 200+ Y/Y growth for the past 2 years on Content SEO Sessions.
SEO Foundations team enables all the product teams at LinkedIn to drive organic search traffic through a strong foundation of SEO infra, Analytics, Auditing and Monitoring.

SEOApp ActivationCollaborationAnalyticsSoftware Development

Software Engineering Manager

Mar 2019 – Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Leading a team of smart engineers focused on building SEO Foundations..
Building SEO Analytics, Auditing, and Monitoring platforms at LinkedIn scale.
Helping Product teams at LinkedIn to build SEO-friendly and highly engaging guest products to drive top-of-the-funnel organic traffic.

SEOAnalyticsAuditingSoftware Development

Staff Software Engineer

Oct 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

Tech lead for SEO team. Focused on People and Jobs SEO.
Built Google For Jobs integration, Linkster (smart crosslinking).
Drove 100% YoY SEO growth for important pillars for consecutive years.

SEOIntegrationCrosslinkingSoftware Development

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2015 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

Part of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) team. Focused on People SEO initiatives.
Built machine-translated public profiles using in-house machine translation capability.
Worked with Microsoft (Satori and Outlook teams) and LinkedIn Partner Engineering teams to help build LinkedIn Profiles + Outlook PeopleCard integration.

SEOMachine TranslationIntegrationSoftware Development

Software Engineer

Mar 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

Part of Member Lifecycle + SEO team.
Built M2M and L2M emails for member recurrection.
Built Public Profile experience on Play+Dust stack to reduce the PLT by 48%.

SEOEmail MarketingUser ExperienceSoftware Development

Dhingana inc

Sr. Platform Engineer

Jun 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune Area, India

Part of platform team, responsible for developing Rest APIs and CMS system (content processing and management).
Developed backend for Dhingana iOS subscriptions and telco subscription management system.
Won Hackday with a prototype of carousel based Dhingana Radio, which drove important metrics like # of songs listened per session after productionizing.

REST APIsContent ManagementBackend DevelopmentSoftware Development