Jestin John

Engineering Manager

San Francisco, California, United States13 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact projects.
  • Expertise in building data ingestion workflows for machine learning.
  • Streamlined development processes aligning tech strategies with business goals.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineering leader with expertise in Ad Tech and E-commerce.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaKafkaSparkNode.js

Other Skills

AWS LambdaAWS S3AWS SQSAerospikeAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache SparkApache StormAurora MySQLCCassandraChronosCore JavaCouchbase

About

Experienced Engineering leader with expertise in leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex, high- impact projects. Skilled in designing data ingestion workflows, building reliable data and inference pipelines for machine learning models and optimizing infrastructure for capacity planning to meet growing demands. Expertise in streamlining development processes and aligning technical strategies with business objectives. Strong focus on driving innovation, enhancing operational efficiency and delivering measurable results through data-driven decision-making.

Experience

13 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr
Current Experience

Meta

Engineering Manager

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr

Linkedin

Engineering Manager

Oct 2021Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid

  • Designed and built hardware forecasting solution for Ads which helped scale the Ad serving infrastructure to serve 2.5M QPS, the solution was later adopted by Efficiency Engineering for inorganic HW forecasting needs for stateless services for all of Linkedin reducing the data collection overhead by 80%.
  • Managed and improved Entity simulation which helped identify scaling and performance bottlenecks for ad serving infra systems helping it to scale to 50% traffic and campaign growth.
  • Designed and built root cause triaging solution which helped engineers find root causes faster for RUM(Real User Metrics) degradation's by 70%
  • Designed and built validation workflows in CI-CD pipelines which helped catch issues faster reducing the blast radius for outages for critical systems and helped improve TTD to 10 mins for business critical flows.
  • Technology Proficiency:
  • Java, Kafka, Python, MySQL, React, Playwright, Couchbase, Spark, OTEL, Kusto, Grafana, GitHub Actions
JavaKafkaPythonMySQLReactPlaywright+6

Clarivate

Director Of Engineering

Dec 2020Oct 2021 · 10 mos

  • As a part of Clarivate's core search and data science team,
  • Developed Spark data ingestion pipelines for Patents Search index which helped migrate from legacy search index, reducing baseline index creation time from 7 days to under 24 hours.
  • Led the engineering team to build a novel Innovation network i.e. Knowledge graph using datasets from Patents, Trademarks, Scholarly articles, providing analytical insights to end customers aiming to improve customer satisfaction.
  • Designed and built a reliable entity extraction solution on unstructured scholarly datasets which helped extract targeted entities with accuracy of 85% saving operational time for analysts by more than 80%
  • Developed Citation Context classification solution which helped provide data insights to Web of Science users to identify citation fraud networks and citation relevance
  • Led the engineering team to build classification and clustering solution for identifying marketplace infringements and phishing content which helped analysts increase their efficiency to work with vendors to shutdown these infringements by 75%
  • Technology Proficiency:
  • Spark Streaming, Spark SQL, Spark ML, Scala, Elastic Search, Java, AWS SQS, Kafka, Chronos, Rabbit MQ, AWS Lambda, Qubole, Databricks, AWS S3, Greenplum, Aurora MySQL, Docker, Mongo DB
Spark StreamingSpark SQLSpark MLScalaElastic SearchJava+13

Nextag

Senior Engineering Manager

May 2011Jul 2016 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Redwood City, California

  • Led the effort to migrate legacy JSP based frontend to Node JS using Express with responsive design and re-design of monolithic services to thrift based micro-services for critical entities resulting in 5x throughput and 3x improvement in page speed.
  • Designed and built the Silhoutte framework which helped launch new websites using existing product catalog targeting specific categories, this helped launch new comparison shopping websites within 1 week and helped diversifying SEM revenue stream
  • Technology Proficiency:
  • Java, Aerospike, Thrift, MySQL, Apache Storm, Kafka, Node JS, React JS, JSP, JavaScript, Cassandra, jQuery, Git
JavaAerospikeThriftMySQLApache StormKafka+8

Amdocs

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2009May 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Built data migration platform for UPC telecom customers which completed the migration in under 30 minutes with no defects and no data loss.
  • Built and launched the IPMS driver for broadband cable activations

Infosys

Software Engineer

Nov 2007Nov 2009 · 2 yrs

  • Built monitoring dashboard for health management for critical systems at Barclays
  • Built data transformation pipelines for LexisNexis

Education

Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University

Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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