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Shivani Ashra

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 10 years of experience in IT industry.
  • Expert in iOS and Hybrid Application Development.
  • Proven track record in leading full-stack teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Application Development expert with strong leadership capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipIos DevelopmentMobile Application Development

Other Skills

AndroidAngularJSApplication TestingArchitectural PatternsBootstrapCSSCoachingCocoaPodsCommunicationCustomer ServiceDebuggingDesign PatternsGruntJSHTMLHigh-Level Design

About

Experienced Engineering Manager with over 10 years in the IT industry, adept at leading full-stack teams while emphasising the three pillars of engineering management - People, Project, and Process. I bring to the table a strong technical background and a proven track record of success in iOS and Hybrid Application Development, alongside proficiency in a spectrum of other technologies. My approach to leadership prioritizes the integration of technical expertise with effective management, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives and exceeding expectations at every turn.

Experience

11 yrs
Total Experience
1 yr 10 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 10 mos
Current Experience

New relic

Engineering Manager

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Urban company

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2022May 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Managed a full stack team of 8-10 people comprising of iOS, Android, backend and frontend engineers
  • Owned the apps stability charter end to end to ensure CFU rate of 99.9%
  • Setup a fully functional QA Team for ensuring high quality deliverables
  • Create year on year product roadmap, quarterly plans for team with proper vision & goal setting
  • Work effectively with a cross-functional team of product managers, business, designers & engineers
  • Responsible for people development in my team which includes biweekly 1:1s, growth path discussions and appraisals.
  • Hiring talents across different functions
  • Some key areas that my team worked on:
  • 1. Web platform Parity - Bring both mweb and dweb at par with mpbile app by building a smart transformation layer in Orion [our in house cross platform development framework built on React Native]
  • 2. ADS Library Parity, Stability and Maintenance - Worked closely with design team to ensure in house design library ADS is stable by deploying various measures in place and ensure code Figma parity
  • 3. Deployment Pipelines & Debuggability - Reduced buildtimes, automating app release & react bundle pipeline, easy JS and native debugging were top focus areas
  • 4. Owned iOS Charter end to end - App Size Reduction, Setting up coding guidelines & following right design patterns to ensure code quality, CFU rate maintenance ~ 99.9% & reducing microfrontend errors, bug triaging & fixing, legacy code revamps [Login/Logout, AppConfig, OTA, Deeplink] for reduced TAT during bug fixing were top focus areas
  • 5. Catalog Automation - Unification of city specific SPLs[service product list] & created a unified country wide SPL, reduced errors in system due to manual dependency
HiringPerformance ManagementTeam ManagementStakeholder ManagementProblem SolvingRelease Management+20

SDE-IV

Sep 2021Dec 2021 · 3 mos

HiringTeam ManagementStakeholder ManagementProblem SolvingRelease ManagementMobile Application Development+11

Shuttl

Engineering Manager

Jan 2020Aug 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

  • Managing a team of 7 people comprising of both mobile and frontend engineers.
  • Own the development practices, processes, and standards for my team
  • Understand, prioritise and deliver the product roadmap while chipping away technical debt
  • Work effectively with a cross-functional team of product managers, business, designers and engineers and  define the roadmap and strategy for engineering deliverables.
  • Collaborate with the Support team to keep track of and triage technical issues and track them through to resolution
  • Responsible for people development in my team which includes career growth and appraisals.
  • Hiring talents across different functions
  • Some key areas that my team worked on:
  • Remote International launch for Shuttl operation in Bangkok
  • Setup boilerplate code for new Android, iOS, React-native and Web project
  • Build and host reusable app components using SPM and GitHub-packages
  • Developed and maintained consumer, driver and route incharge app for both Intracity and International market
  • GPS Pipeline improvements for India & International Market for improved ETA and tracking
  • Revamped the existing apps for better Ui/UX
  • Actively contribute to discussions with automation team for auto sanity setup
  • Migration from ChirpConnect to Lisnr SDK for improving the customer boarding authentication experience
HiringPerformance ManagementTeam ManagementStakeholder ManagementProblem SolvingRelease Management+19

Dunzo.in

Senior Software Developer

Apr 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • My primary responsibilities during my stint at Dunzo were as follows:
  • Worked on achieving widgetization across app
  • Lead short term projects from planning to delivery across both iOS & Android platform
  • Implement new user functionalities & revamp existing flows for better UI/UX
  • Release newer app versions to the store
  • Interview candidates for team expansion and mentor new joiners
  • Integrate analytics events using CleverTap,AppsFlyer and MixPanel
  • Worked with the team to enable build generation via CircleCI using Fastlane
  • Work closely with product team to increase user acquisition & retention
  • Faciliitate the Dunzo app release for different cities
  • Revamped the existing iOS app for Dunzo with the new branding
HiringTeam ManagementStakeholder ManagementProblem SolvingRelease ManagementMobile Application Development+11

Akamai technologies

Software Development Engineer II

May 2017Mar 2018 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • My job role involves iOS SDK Development for PCD(Predictive Content Delivery) & MAP(Mobile App Performance). PCD SDK is an intelligent video content download manager & MAP SDK employs various optimization techniques to reduce network latency.
  • Currently working on constantly improving the SDK and supporting customer integration as follows:
  • Work on the CRs and enhancements to improve the existing products and add new features.
  • Created sample application that is distributed along with the integration guide to customers.
  • Writing test cases to stabilize the products
  • Helping the client and BD team with issues faced during integration.
  • Dev Test the release versions of the SDKs every month to ensure bug free release.
Stakeholder ManagementProblem SolvingMobile Application DevelopmentMemory ManagementiOS DevelopmentApplication Testing

Sapientnitro

2 roles

Associate Technology L2

Dec 2015Apr 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Supported release process for fast food restaurant app launched across different target markets and the work included:
  • 1. Ad-hoc UI & functionality change enhancements for market launch for designs & requirements provided by a third party & client respectively.
  • 2. Bug fixing for issues raised by internal and third party teams and developing Change Requests.
  • 3. Provide solutions for crash reports generated by NewRelic.
  • 4. Writing test cases and sonarQube Analysis for maintaining code quality.
Problem SolvingMobile Application DevelopmentMemory ManagementiOS DevelopmentHuman Interface Design

Associate Technology L1

Jun 2014Nov 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Worked as native iOS & hybrid mobile application developer with knowledge of javascript frameworks required for both client side and server side scripting on multiple projects as follows:
  • 1. iOS App Development for one of the largest chain of fast food restaurants
  • Implemented user functionalities as per the requirement document provided by the client
  • Implemented Push Notification functionality for the application and integrated Kochava for analytics.
  • Created standard font and color classes to be used across application.
  • Complex Project Structure having separate modules for UI layers & Connect layer to enable libraries to be reusable among different markets.
  • 2. POC for a leading technology company in the payments sector
  • Worked on a deep linking POC for both Native Android & iOS platforms.
  • 3. CONFERENCE APP for one of the largest enterprise software companies in the world
  • Developed a Hybrid App(iOS & Android) for the international conferences organized by the company
  • Work involved development for both app and Admin portal using Angular and backend services using Node.js & MySQL.
  • 4. SAPIENT INTERNAL EVENTS APP
  • Developed a Hybrid App(iOS & Android) to be used in Sapient's Internal Events. Work involved development for both app and Admin portal as per given PSDs using Angular and backend services using Node.js & MySQL.
  • 5. UI OPTIMIZATION for the tablet app developed for one of largest global providers of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs
Problem SolvingMobile Application DevelopmentMemory ManagementiOS Development

Kota super thermal power plant,kota

Trainee

May 2012Jun 2012 · 1 mo · Kota, Rajasthan , India

Deki electronics ltd

Intern

Jun 2011Jul 2011 · 1 mo · Noida Area, India

Education

Vellore Institute of Technology

Bachelor's Degree — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2014

Lancer's Convent

High School — PCM (Non-Medical)

Jan 2008Jan 2010

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