Swapnil Shirsath

Director of Engineering

Lisbon, Portugal16 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in leading engineering teams.
  • Expertise in product strategy and technology leadership.
  • Strong background in coaching and team development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and FinTech engineering leader with extensive experience in team management and product strategy.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipProduct StrategyTravel TechnologyTechnical LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentProblem SolvingResearch

Other Skills

Big-Picture ThinkingBudgetingCareer Path PlanningCloud ComputingCoachingCommunicationComputer ScienceCross-team CollaborationData ScienceDefining RequirementsDelegationDue DiligenceE-CommerceEnglishFinTech

About

Experienced Software Development Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the software industry. Strong engineering professional skilled in People Management, Software Development, Problem Solving, and Agile Methodologies.

Experience

16 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
1 yr
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Unobravo

Senior Engineering Manager

Nov 2024Oct 2025 · 11 mos · Lisbon, Portugal · Remote

Stealth startup

Management

Jun 2024Oct 2024 · 4 mos · Lisbon Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

Self-employed

Traveler

Feb 2023May 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • I took a break from the corporate world and spent a year travelling across the globe - from Australia to Latin America (with a total of 14 countries). It has been a very enriching and a rewarding experience as it was something I desired to do since many years.
English

Clearscore

Head Of Engineering

Jan 2022Jan 2023 · 1 yr · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

EnglishCoachingGoal SettingProduct StrategyKey Performance IndicatorsTechnology Leadership+40

Farfetch

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2021Dec 2021 · 10 mos · Lisbon Metropolitan Area

PresentationsEnglishCoachingGoal SettingHands-on Technical LeadershipProduct Strategy+42

Engineering Manager

Aug 2020Jan 2021 · 5 mos · Lisbon Metropolitan Area

PresentationsEnglishCoachingGoal SettingHands-on Technical LeadershipKey Performance Indicators+39

Antler

Entrepreneur

Jan 2020Mar 2020 · 2 mos

EnglishCommunicationTravel TechnologyStartup EnvironmentsTeamworkProfessional Skills+5

Wandertip

Founder

Oct 2019Aug 2020 · 10 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

PresentationsEnglishCommunicationTravel TechnologyStrategic ThinkingStartup Environments+10

Booking.com

2 roles

Manager of Software Development (Acting)

Jan 2019Sep 2019 · 8 mos · The Randstad, Netherlands

  • Leading and managing two tracks (20+ engineers in total) in Security department.
  • 4 team leads as direct reports; compensation manager for 20+ employees.
  • Responsible for growth and smooth functioning of the tracks as well as fostering talent.
PresentationsEnglishCoachingGoal SettingHands-on Technical LeadershipProduct Strategy+34

Software Developer & Team Lead

Jul 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · The Randstad, Netherlands

  • Leading and managing two teams (10 BE developers in total) in Security department.
  • Responsible for building OKRs, monitoring team health and performance, helping growth of team members, conducting performance reviews, interacting with the stakeholders and direct customers.
PresentationsEnglishCoachingGoal SettingHands-on Technical LeadershipKey Performance Indicators+34

M.paani

2 roles

VP Engineering (Consultant)

Nov 2017Jan 2018 · 2 mos

TroubleshootingPresentationsEnglishCoachingGoal SettingHands-on Technical Leadership+28

VP Engineering

Sep 2017Oct 2017 · 1 mo

TroubleshootingPresentationsEnglishCoachingGoal SettingHands-on Technical Leadership+32

Wandertip

Founder

Sep 2016Aug 2017 · 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • • Conducted market study on my idea related to personalized itinerary planning for fellow travelers.
TroubleshootingPresentationsEnglishCoachingGoal SettingHands-on Technical Leadership+27

Treebo hotels

Technical Product Manager

Jan 2016Aug 2016 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Member of core leadership team of the company.
  • Responsible to build the core company products from scratch and deliver them aggressively.
  • Product owner for Bumblebee, an in-house PMS for front-desk managers at all our partner hotels.
  • Product owner for Prowl, an in-house quality audit tool used to maintain a check on quality of hotels. • • Client interaction, meeting partners, deploying products, round-the-clock product-related support.
  • Active and regular involvement in architecture and software development of the products that I own.  • Mentor and lead the tech team of 25 developers and quality analysts.
  • Involved in recruitment, and various fun/cultural related committees of the company.
PresentationsEnglishCommunicationTravel TechnologyStartup EnvironmentsTeamwork+4

Practo

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2015Aug 2015 · 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Leading 7 strong teams comprising around 45 developers and test engineers.
  • Managing a critical product vertical, viz. Ray for Doctors.
  • Actively recruiting new engineers to expand teams further.
  • Responsible for performance appraisals, career growth, personal growth of each team member.
  • Regularly introducing new processes and tools in the teams to ensure high performance.
TroubleshootingPresentationsEnglishCoachingHands-on Technical LeadershipCommunication+19

Rovi india

Manager Software Development

Aug 2012Apr 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Led and mentored a team of 8 developers and test engineers.
  • Transitioned various projects from the US counterparts to the Mumbai office.
  • Built 3 teams of 15 engineers being an important part of the recruitment process.
  • Managed and delivered various end-to-end projects with constant interaction with the project managers, and the cross-functional teams.
  • Executed performance appraisals for my direct reports.
  • Hands-on programming in Java for all the projects.
  • Followed agile methodologies, was scrum master for our projects, since July 2014.
TroubleshootingEnglishCoachingCommunicationProblem SolvingStartup Environments+17

Yahoo!

Tech Lead

Sep 2010Jun 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked as a lead for the Video Platform team handling the YXS module.
  • Worked for clients such as Rogers, Verizon, AT & T, and BT.
  • Worked as a lead for the Membership team for various broadband related projects.
  • Worked on migration from BSD to RHEL for a few broadband partners.
  • Worked on a data-cleansing project for BT.
  • Mentored the new members of the team to get them onto the pace.
TroubleshootingEnglishCoachingHands-on Technical LeadershipCommunicationProblem Solving+14

Rupee street financial services pvt ltd

Lead Engineer

Jan 2010Aug 2010 · 7 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Founding technical member of the core team. Overall, third member of the company.
  • Built a web application that provides online financial services.
  • Worked on all the components of SDLC.
  • Designed complete business logic of the product, built complex algorithms for the same.
  • Used LAMP model and MVC architecture for the development of the web application.
TroubleshootingJava web applicationsEnglishCoachingMathematicsCommunication+6

Webaroo technology pvt. ltd

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2008Jan 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Member of the development team for the core product, SMSGupShup Enterprise.
  • Developed and enhanced product features, such as, single message API, bulk upload, international phone numbers support, real-time delivery reports, and dynamic masking.
  • Worked on product integration and acted as a technical support for the customers.
  • Programming in Java with MySQL database at the backend.
TroubleshootingJava web applicationsEnglishMathematicsProblem SolvingStartup Environments+5

Computational research laboratories

Team Member

Nov 2007Sep 2008 · 10 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Member of the PG libraries group that worked on various optimizations.
  • Designed and developed an efficient and scalable implementation of iterative sparse linear solvers for the system of equations generated from various scientific computing applications.
  • Optimized single-node and multi-node implementations of sparse-matrix and vector multiplication, conjugate gradients, along with an implementation of a cache simulator.
TroubleshootingJava web applicationsEnglishProblem SolvingStartup EnvironmentsRepresentational State Transfer (REST)+2

Availigent inc

Software Engineer

Aug 2006Aug 2007 · 1 yr · San Jose, CA

  • Member of the core development team for the company product, Duration.
  • Worked on modules such as Availability Manager, Duration Management Console, and Installer.
  • Multi-threaded programming in C++, Java, XML.
TroubleshootingEnglishMathematicsProblem SolvingResearch SkillsComputer Science+1

Mississippi state university

2 roles

Research Assistant for Dr. Luke

Promoted

Jan 2006Aug 2006 · 7 mos

  • Research in the field of High Performance Computing.
  • Completed my Master’s project titled “Design of Compressed Mesh File Format with Serial and Parallel APIs”, as a part of the research.
  • Programming in C++ using Message Passing Interface directives to parallelize the code
TroubleshootingJava web applicationsEnglishStartup EnvironmentsComputer ScienceSoftware Development+1

Research Assistant for Dr. Dandass

Mar 2005Dec 2005 · 9 mos

  • Research in the field of Security & High Performance Computing.
  • Worked on Intrusion Detection at the data link layer using a software switch.
  • Studied various software viruses and worm attacks that harm the data packets.
  • Kernel level programming using C.
EnglishResearch SkillsComputer Science

Accenture services pvt. ltd

Jr Software Engineer

Jun 2004Dec 2004 · 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • • Worked on a testing project for the US client- Southern Bell Corporation Limited.
EnglishResearch SkillsComputer Science

Education

Mississippi State University

Master of Science — Computer Science

Jan 2005Jan 2006

Mumbai University

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Engineering

Jan 2000Jan 2004

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