Manik Karol

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams at Amazon and Microsoft.
Expert in building scalable web services from scratch.
Proficient in defining technology roadmaps and product strategies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Enterprise Software leader with extensive experience in cloud and data engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Agile DevelopmentArchitectureArchitecturesAutomationBusiness IntelligenceCC#C++Cloud ComputingCloud ManagementCommunicationContent DeliveryContent ManagementCore ProcessingCortana

About

Technology leader with experience in hiring and building high momentum technology organisation comprising of top talent. Diverse set of experience leading cross functional teams across true-blue MNCs and startups. Proficiency in dealing with ambiguity, stakeholder management and defining the Technology & Product roadmap across teams and leading large organisation. Rich experience in solving complex and problems of scale to build world class web services and platforms from scratch for internet scale. Specialties: Leader of leaders, Strategic vision, Tech roadmap definition, Software Product Design and Execution.

Experience

21 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Amazon

2 roles

Head Of Engineering Amazon Pay Core Processing (Global) and Alexa Money (Global)

Promoted

Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Head of Engineering Core Processing & Alexa Money (voice commerce) Amazon Pay.
Engineering leader leading :
Core Processing Portfolio (Global) - Core Processing Systems in Amazon Pay
Alexa Money Domain (Global) - Voice Commerce on Amazon Pay
Quality Assurance - Quality across AmazonPay Products. Automation and test tooling

Quality AssuranceAutomationTest ToolingTechnical LeadershipSoftware Engineering

Software Development Manager

Apr 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore India

Engineering leader driving
1) Data Engineering infrastructure for feeding the Amazon's automated pricing across the catalog.
2) Inbound Defect Reduction platform for Amazon Retail Business WW
3) Real time work allocation platform for thousands of associates globally
4) Vendor Services Platforms

Data EngineeringReal-time Work AllocationVendor Services PlatformsTechnical LeadershipSoftware Engineering

Microsoft

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Jul 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Leader driving:
1) Yammer (Social graph for workplace)
2) Outlook Web Application (OWA) on Mobile & Desktop.
3) Cortana as an Enterprise only assistant.
4) Search UX for MS Teams.

YammerOutlook Web ApplicationCortanaSearch UXTechnical LeadershipSoftware Engineering

Housing.com

Engineering Leader

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr · Bangaon, West Bengal, India

Led the technology for Housing.com to scale for the growing business needs. Reporting directly to the CTO. Built the entire organisation for monetization business vertical and launched multiple services on the monetization platforms to add subscription and advertisement revenues to the company portfolio. Managed high-performing software engineering teams, responsible for building new products and platform features for our real estate supply chain customers/businesses and the data platform for business intelligence and analytics.

Monetization PlatformsReal Estate Supply ChainBusiness IntelligenceTechnical LeadershipSoftware Engineering

Snapdeal

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 · 0 mo · Greater Delhi Area

Ownership of Product analytics (Frequently bought together, you may also like, trending now ) And the Content Delivery and Streaming Platforms (Audio/Video Media streaming in product catalog/ product description for various screen sizes and platforms.

Product AnalyticsContent DeliveryStreaming PlatformsTechnical Leadership

Paypal

Member Technical Staff 2

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

Re-Architecture and Development of PayPal Wallet's Incentives Engine.

PayPal WalletIncentives EngineTechnical Leadership

Oracle corporation

Principal Member Technical Staff

Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 · 3 yrs · California (US) ; Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Cloud Management
Consulting, Design and architecture for SaaS using Multi-Tenant Architecture
Led the design and development for the DbaaS (Db as a Service) on the Private cloud management stack.

Cloud ManagementSaaS ArchitectureDbaaSTechnical LeadershipSoftware Engineering

Intel corporation

Hardware Engineer R&D

Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 · 4 yrs · Bangalore, Haifa (Israel), DuPont (US)

Design and Architecture
Design and Architecture for Modules in the Intel's In-Target Probe || (ITP||) a.k.a DAL Suite of Tools used to debug the new CPUs and the chip-sets.
Development and Product Enhancement
Developed and added new features to the existing ITP Product
Agile Development
Delivered product beating the best case estimates using agile techniques
Core Contributor on team that built World's First Hex Core and India's First Microprocessor 'Dunnington'.

DesignArchitectureAgile DevelopmentTechnical Leadership

Quark media house india ltd.

Engineer R&D , Core Technologies

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

Design and Development of Rich Administrator GUI and the QPS Enterprise Content Management Server

GUI DesignContent ManagementSoftware Engineering

Defence research and development organisation

Trainee Engineer

Jan 2003 – Jan 2003 · 0 mo · Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India

Developed a Fabric Tensors based plug in on Image Pro Plus (Media Cybernetics). The project was done to implement the Stereo-logical Studies based Tensor Calculations (Fabric Tensor Calculations) for Snow-Crystal image for finding out the bond length.
This Plugin uses the Image processing techniques to do the Fabric tensor Calculations of the Snow to predict the Avalanche.

Image ProcessingPlugin Development