- 15+ years in software engineering leadership roles in North America and Europe. - Built and led cross functional engineering teams, up to 40+ personnel including managers. - Led teams to build and operate large scale software systems processing up to 20k reqs/ sec. and 200 million+ events/messages per day. End to end ownership of SDLC : strategic planning, formulation of OKR and north star, identifying the people / skill set needs, hiring and building the team, rallying the team around the OKR/goals, defining and refining software engineering processes. engineering excellence metrics and tracking, architecture and systems design, development, QA and production maintenance. Key learnings/experiences from building /leading software engineering teams - 1. People: Prioritize hiring and developing the right people. And then let them lead the show!2. Culture: Strong sense of ownership and collaboration. We live to serve our customers. 3. Structure: End to end product ownership with minimal cross team dependencies. 4. Process: Plan small, deliver small and deliver fast. Push for continuous improvements across the board. 5. Automation: Focus on automation - i.e. CI/CD, Test/infrastructure automation, allowing teams to have time to solve non-trivial problems. It makes a huge impact on engineering productivity and happiness. Tech stacks: Large scale data intensive systems, Micro-services, Even/Message driven asynchronous communications, Java, Python, GraphQL, AWS, Azure, GCP, SQL/RDBMS, NoSQL, Elastic Search, Solr, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD.