Gnanasekar Palaniappan

Director of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States23 yrs experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led development of a high-impact Digital Retail Platform.
  • Spearheaded AI tools adoption to enhance development efficiency.
  • Built and scaled high-performing engineering teams across multiple locations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce leader with extensive experience in engineering management and digital transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipE-commerceProject ManagementAgile LeadershipEngineering Management

Other Skills

AI AgentsAWSAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Artificial Intelligence for BusinessAzureBack-End Web DevelopmentCareer Path PlanningCommunicationConflict ManagementCustomer EngagementDatabasesDistributed Systems

About

Highly motivated and experienced software professional with exceptional leadership, communication and analytical skills in the engineering and Information technology field; building complex, scalable and high performance distributed transaction processing systems. Has the rare blend of technical and leadership skills with over 10+ years of hands-on experience in design, development, project management and leadership roles with various projects. Specialities : Multi-channel, High transaction internet commerce applications, logistics, fulfillment, delivery experience, asynchronous data flows,relational and non-relational databases, mobile, big data, agile development and building high performance teams.

Experience

23 yrs
Total Experience
4 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Tekion corp

Sr Director of Engineering

Apr 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Pleasanton, California, United States

  • Oversee Automatic Enterprise Cloud, leading services, mobile, support, quality and application teams.
  • Led the development of Tekion’s Digital Retail Platform (DRP) for the company’s largest OEM
  • partner, enabling e-commerce car sales and expanding to multiple OEMs. This initiative drove an
  • increase in EV sales and empowered 1,200 dealerships with seamless digital retail experience.
  • Directed the launch of CarBravo.com from concept to go-live, generating over $580 million in
  • revenue for used car sales.
  • Led a company-wide initiative to adopt AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and Augment,
  • accelerating development, improving JUnit test coverage and enhancing automation.
  • Spearheaded key initiatives such as OEM certification and the successful launch of Digital Retail
  • (DR) products leveraging AWS and Azure; scaled the engineering team from 60 to 150+,
  • providing leadership to managers and senior managers.
  • Introduced Agile methodologies, defined clear milestones, and implemented a consistent release
  • cadence, significantly improving project predictability and team efficiency.
  • Spearheaded initiatives to implement CI/CD pipelines and real-time monitoring dashboards, to
  • enhance operational efficiency, fault detection and strengthening production support.
  • Built and implemented a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) framework and established dedicated
  • technical support team
Customer EngagementTechnical LeadershipSystems DesignMicroservicesCommunicationJenkins+17

Ebay

Director Of Engineering

Jun 2017Apr 2022 · 4 yrs 10 mos

  • Post List Selling Experience for Consumer and Business Sellers, manage mobile, data science, services teams.
  • Provided leadership on Seller Marketing engine. Built and launched many key features like buyer targeting, seller coded coupons and many more features.
  • Launch experiences to support Ads billion-dollar business.
  • Led an innovation team responsible for next billion-dollar opportunity and connect eBay brand with Gen-Z a mobile experience for any campus.
  • Built the platform from ground up to enable private marketplace. As a part of this platform, delivered reusable core capabilities like Video, M2M, secured local pickup , simplified View Item and local search experience and launched private marketplace for eBay employees and TCU
  • Provided leadership on selling platform API to improve 3rd party developer experience and API driven GMV
  • Responsible for all the facets of business seller experience, native apps, web and API
  • Led computer vision effort to build capabilities like image recognition and image cleanup
  • Building ML/AI team which is chartered to improve quality of the products, price guidance and classification of the consumer listings.
E-CommerceEngineering ManagementSpring FrameworkScalabilityAgile MethodologiesService-Oriented Architecture (SOA)+14

Chargepoint, inc.

Sr Director, Engineering

Sep 2015Jun 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Responsible for ChargePoint products including Cloud backend, Web services, ChargePoint Portal, Analytics, Reporting and Mobile Apps reporting to CTO.
  • As Sr Director of Engineering, I drive software development process, contributes to design and development, and architecture of products.
  • Hired, coached and mentored world class Engineers and built multiple teams at varying geographical locations from scratch to address the needs of business.
  • Launched Time of Usage (ToU) Access Control List (ACL) to enhance access management.
  • Released new Signup flow, Pricing Wizard, and Admin Dashboard, improving user experience
  • and administrative efficiency.
  • Enabled platform expansion to Canada and Mexico and led migration to AWS for scalability.
  • Deployed Panel Sharing functionality to control energy distribution across stations within
  • specified limits.
  • Collaborated with utility companies and auto dealers to launch impactful new programs.
  • Implemented the WaitList feature for multiple organizations, enhancing service efficiency.
  • Delivered various performance improvements and introduced monitoring systems for both
  • applications and infrastructure, increasing stability and reliability

Walmart global tech

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2014Sep 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Senior development manager for cross border trading, managed marketplace and ASDA migration.
  • Built and scaled Cross-Border high-performing trading team, achieving full productivity in two
  • weeks and delivering the complete product in four months.
  • Directed cross-functional collaboration to launch the Global Store, coordinating with regional
  • teams in Brazil and managing vendor partnerships, including Pitney Bowes, for end-to-end
  • logistics, order confirmation, shipment tracking, and reconciliation. Designed a scalable solution
  • enabling rapid deployment across multiple countries.
  • Established a robust managed marketplace platform supporting 35M+ SKUs and standardized
  • seller integration, enhancing the seller and partner experience.
  • Spearheaded ASDA’s strategic platform migration, ensuring seamless integration and optimized
  • performance for high-volume operations.

Ebay inc

4 roles

Engineering Development Manager

Sep 2011Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Worked and delivered on several initiatives in the Logistics, Fulfillment, Delivery Experience area of the Managed Marketplaces.
  • Major Initiatives
  • Launched "Carrier Integration Platform", an integrated shipping solution involving rates, labels, tracking, reconciliation and payments.
  • Launched "Global Shipping Program" an integrated cross-border international shipping solution involving carrier integration and integrated tracking.
  • Launched eBay Certified Program, fulfillment program targeted for Casual sellers driving consistency, efficiency in shipping time and cost to the buyers.
  • Launched "Orion" an end to end tracking platform involving multiple hops, package combine, split options, pluggable provider architecture for integration.
  • Launched "Returns" and "Replacements" initiatives for enabling sellers and buyer to make the returns process much simpler and easier with labels, tracking.

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2010Aug 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Lead and built the "Bulk label" platform for eBay market place enabling sellers to print labels, management of post labels.
  • Launched the "Ship2Fund" platform for eBay casual sellers to protect buyers from fraud, involving carrier integration for labels, tracking and releasing the funds held for the sellers.
  • Lead the effort on integrating Ship Cover insurance with label platform for easier and guaranteed claim processing.

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2006Feb 2010 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Launched Global Postage Printing : Enabled integrations with several carriers across the world (US, UK, CA, AU) by building a platform for faster integration, enabling multiple market places (eBay, PayPal). On an average more than 1M labels are printed through this platform worth of 1.5 billion dollars. Platform is up and running with no backend changes for more than 5 years, enabled other initiatives like returns, eTRS, replacements, ship2Fund.
  • Lead Address verification service initiatives used by checkout, registration and labels.
  • Lead and developed Freight Quote and Other initiative enabled sellers to ship through Freight, end to end flow from selling, buying, checkout by integrating with various vendors.
  • Launched "Bulk Application Framework" enabling big merchants to manage listings and post transactions by uploading/downloading through CSV/Text files.

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2003Feb 2006 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Setup new team to hire with talented engineers, work with business and product owners and get it delivered and manage engineering, quality and operations.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

M.Tech — Computer Science & Engineering

Jan 1994Jan 1996

Madurai Kamaraj University

Master of Science (MSc) — Computer Science

Madurai Kamaraj Universty

Bachelor's degree — Mathematics

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