Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos

• Building Flights and Activities shopping experience, and price tracking and predictions platform & capabilities

Apr 2021 – Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Trip Discovery & Assistance Pillar Leader
• Spearheaded the Trip Discovery pillar, empowering travelers through innovative planning and collaboration tools developed by the Trips team.
• Led the Trip Assistance pillar, providing seamless support to Expedia travelers, ensuring easy access to bookings and assistance in planning and managing their entire journey.
• Delivered over $12M in incremental gross profit (GP) within the past year through strategic product and technical initiatives.
• Transformed the team to be more business and product-centric, enabling developers to independently ideate and launch over 15 features, contributing an additional $1.15M in GP outside of the product roadmap.
• Ensured high-quality product delivery with a focus on high availability and superior user experience.

Jun 2018 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Mar 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Built and led private label engineering team (28 members) that delivers dynamic packages and hotels stand-alone booking engine to partners by on-boarding them onto Expedia’s global platform.
• Experienced at building highly efficient teams that integrate well with other teams across geographies and time zones.
• Experienced in managing big, geographically distributed, technology teams.
• Excellent track record of delivering high quality software on schedule.
• An effective communicator with excellent relationship building & interpersonal skills;
• strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities.
• Experienced in managing third party / vendor relationships as well as offshore teams.
• Well-developed communication skills with strong interpersonal skills.
• Good Team management skills by channelizing them productively to achieve multiple
• project goals within deadlines.
• Proficient at stakeholder management. Understands the requirements of various stakeholders
• Result oriented individual who believes in transparency and adaptability as core values necessary to succeed.

Oct 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Get involved during scoping phase and provide high level solutions
• Provide ball park estimates to marketing team/product teams for rolling out a new product/site
• Responsible for capacity, backlog & risk management
• Solely responsible for delivering product on time with great quality
• Responsible for all outward communications from the team to various stakeholders which include senior leadership, marketing teams & product teams
• Mentor and motivate team mates to improve efficiency which in turn improves the productivity of the team
• Use agile practices & methodologies to manage the backlog. Customize these practices to suit the team and achieve maximum results.

Jan 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Meet project teams and understand development process, requirements and delivery schedule
• Design test strategy
• Create spoofers using LISA for downstream services
• Prepare environment for performance tests
• Run various performance tests (Load, Stress, Fault Tolerance, Soak & Side by Side test)
• Prepare a report which includes observations
• Meet project team to analyze results and share root cause and tuning suggestions with them
• Mentor and delegate to offshore team