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San Diego, California, Us

Building cutting edge products in InsurTech domain leveraging AI/ML.

Jersey City, Nj, Us

Reporting directly to the CEO, I lead the end-to-end multi-tenant VMS platform, overseeing Product Management, UX, Engineering, QA, PMO, DevSecOps, and SRE. I’m responsible for driving strategy, execution, and delivery across all functions to ensure alignment with business goals and customer success.Accomplishments include:- Spearheaded the development of a comprehensive product suite roadmap in collaboration with my leadership team, aligning strategic priorities to drive innovation and business growth.- Partnered with fellow C-suite executives to define the "How We Win" strategy, creating a clear path to double revenue by optimizing product offerings, market positioning, and operational excellence.- Recruited and structured a high-performing leadership team, ensuring alignment with business goals and consistently delivering on customer commitments.- Led the onboarding of multiple customers onto the platform, including securing the largest customer in the company’s history, driving significant growth.- Fostered a data-driven culture within product engineering, enabling more informed decision-making, improving product delivery efficiency, and consistently enhancing customer satisfaction.- Implemented a Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC), resulting in timely deliveries and consistently high-quality products.- Established the Architecture Review Board and formalized architecture review processes, significantly enhancing product design and overall system robustness.- Launched a cutting-edge reports and analytics platform, leveraging modern tools and technologies to provide deeper insights and performance improvements.- Optimized cloud infrastructure across compute, databases, and networking, achieving a 50% reduction in cloud spend while maintaining operational efficiency.Tech Stack: Python, PHP, Angular, React, Mongodb, PostgreSQL, AWS, Databricks, dbt, PowerBI, Redshift, Kafka, LangChain, GPT-4o

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Accountable for HCM Product Development.Accomplishments include:- Lay out product vision, strategy, and execution.- Build all the products from ground up with modern engineering practices such as microservices, micro frontends, domain driven design, containers, container orchestration, and fully on cloud.- Build the full suite of HCM products: Onboarding, CoreHR, Compensation, Time & Attendance, Benefits, Learning, and Offboarding.- Strategize and build AI/ML products with an all star data science team.- Build an e-commerce engine of document templates for the full life cycle of an employee.- Build an expert management system that allows customers to engage with experts specialized in glocal topics.- Build a global team comprising of leaders, engineers, QA, product managers, UX, and delivery. - Design processes for a lean and agile software delivery mechanism.Tech stack: .NET/C#, Azure, ADO, React, SQL Server, Mongodb, Kubernetes, Docker, PowerBI, Databricks

Walldorf, Bw, De

Accountable for a critical group within bigger Product Platform Engineering at SAP SuccessFactors LOB.Accomplishments:* End-to-end ownership of products including GDPR frameworks, i18n, Business Process Engine, Media Service, Intelligent Services, Digital Support Experience, Compliance Products, Upgrade Framework, and Usage Analytics.* Lead the modernization of SuccessFactors application stack leveraging microservices, kubernetes, docker, and cloud (Azure).* Core member of Cross Product Architecture AI Working Group at SAP. Driving data engineering topics especially around adoption of Feature Stores.* Spearhead building next gen conversational AI chatbot, Digital Support Experience (DSX) on top of NLP/ML frameworks.* Champion DevSecOps and Continuous Delivery practices across engineering and Ops teams leading to faster product delivery.* Devise processes, procedures, and metrics for smooth execution and delivery of products.* Recruit, build, grow, and scale high performance teams across multiple global locations. * Organize training for engineering teams to upskill on topics such as TDD and BDD.* Member of Technology Innovation Awards (TIA) Committee that judges hackday innovation projects.* Formulated LEAP (Learn, Experiment, Adopt, Present) initiative to help engineers learn and grow in their careers.* Presented technical and business topics in internal forums.* Mentored startups at SAP’s accelerator sap.io.Tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, HortonWorks Hadoop, ArgoCD, Rancher, Terraform, Chef, Ansible, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus.

Walldorf, Bw, De

Accomplishments:* Led architecture, design, and development of Intelligent Services, an organization-wide initiative that was presented at Sapphire, the annual SAP conference by Bill McDermott and Satya Nadella. * Drove architecture, design, and development of foundational frameworks like Business Process Engine.* Set up knowledge share platform - SAP Cloud Tech Talks - inviting luminaries from the industry to present on technology topics.* Presented technical topics at the annual SAP Developers Summit d-kom. * Filed two patents for innovations accomplished with Intelligent Services and Business Process Engine.

Walldorf, Bw, De

* Led the first Microservice - Media Service - development and deployment on AWS.* Reviewed, identified, and managed outsourced vendors for developing SuccessFactors-Outlook integration product. * Formed collaboration model between globally distributed teams leading to successful delivery of projects.* Presented technical and product topics at SAP's annual developer conference, d-kom.* Hire engineers and interns from Stanford University's career fairs. * Introduced Behavior Driven Development for new projects.

* Cofounded startups as a CTO/VP of Eng.* Built and scaled geographically distributed teams.* Architected SaaS solutions on top of public clouds like AWS.

South San Francisco, California, Us

* Led architecture, design, and development of two foundational frameworks - Event Bus and Central Audit.* Owned and enhanced i18n framework with 3-tier implementation.* Built a tool to debug javascript on production servers effectively reducing troubleshooting turnaround time to almost zero.* Built database visualizer tool that improved productivity with database development several times over. Was awarded the prestigious Dream, Dare, Do award for the tool.* Was part of the core Tiger Team that introduced Agile development at SuccessFactors.* Introduced JRebel, the tool to instantly deploy code in app server. Eventually it was adopted across the global engineering team.* Designed and built an SMS feature as a hack-day project integrating SuccessFactors application with Twilio APIs.* Introduced Technology Radar concept allowing the architects to align technology roadmap with business strategy.* Started community of practice for functional programming languages like Scala and Clojure.

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Led engineering teams and designed SaaS infrastructure.

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Design and develop solutions for wireless industry.

Design and develop solutions for knowledge exchange platform.

Ms, Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Engineering

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