Ankur Sidhu Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Redwood City, California, United States

Mentored and empowered 3 strong engineering managers to lead globally distributed teams of high performing engineers. Built and drove an inclusive, open and psychologically safe culture for my Org. Drove and influenced company wide objectives and strategic plans through collaborative partnerships with senior leadership across product management, GTM, PgM, Support and Sales orgsResponsible for overseeing the development and support of the entire core feature release platform accounting for >60% of product revenue Spearheaded move from inhouse authentication to a 3P authentication platform (Fusion Auth), from vendor selection to mapping the user journeys between the two platforms, resulting in a seamless user transition and enhancing our products login, registration, SSO, MFA and OAuth FeaturesLed and successfully launched SCIM integration between Okta & Azure AD with Split.io streamlining user onboarding and reducing security risk governing users for large enterprise customers, resulting in closing 3 large enterprise customers deals [$xM ARR]

Managed, led and coached engineering teams of software engineers and managers to deliver large scale digital transformationsCollaborated and influenced cross functional leaders and senior execs across the company to gain alignment on engineering roadmaps, resource commitments and unblocked organizational dependencies for delivering continued ROI to the business Drove decision making, program structure, capacity plans, headcount allocations and provided regular program risks/issues oversight and dependency management to ensure ontime onbudget deliveryLed the transformation and solutioning of an existing monolithic application to a micro services driven architecture, upgraded the processing engine to support 10x transaction volume resulting in $XM cost reductionLed a strategic program to improve customer experience and success by driving data driven approach to decision making, insights and product adoption journey resulting in tailored product recommendations to achieve customer objectives.

Managed and led improvements to Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI/CD) tooling/processes for increased engineering productivity Designed and built an integrated portfolio management solution that provides senior leadership with insights on business capabilities and features, roadmaps and impact heat maps using Java & Spring frameworkDelivered a company-wide ‘Innovation’ incubation platform using MEAN stack, to enable idea generation, collaboration and sponsorship. 2500+ Ideas contributed, 100+ events organized and 28 active programs sponsored.

Greater New York City Area

Led cross-functional teams to define business requirements for enhancing product search and relevancy features for their reading clubs e-commerce websiteLed planning and execution of data migration of live product data into a revised schema and managed risk to minimize client & website downtimeLed and coordinated new feature deployments to production sites using change and release management processesAdopted and championed the agile process for our teams to foster greater productivity and faster turnaround from requirements to deliverableManaged external vendor teams to define and scope requirements and removed technical roadblocks Designed and implemented RESTful APIs for customer management and deployed to AWSDesigned Solr search index schema, defined fields and field types and loaded the index through data import handlers. Defined query handlers and tuned search results relevancy based on business driversRecommended architectural improvements on search and helped define and estimate the minimum viable product for searchCollaborated with infrastructure team and database administrators to spin up new EC2 instances, updated chef recipes, DBAs for creation of views and co-ordinated the execution plan across the various stakeholdersBuilt automation through Jenkins using fabfiles. Created automated jobs that made deployments and executing various scripts at the push of a button

O2C is an online order processing portal created for ADT to process an order to install security systems at their client locations. This portal provides customer management, contract management, billing, payment processing and scheduling of services.Responsibilities:• Facilitated requirement gathering workshops with various project stakeholders, project managers, PMO, technical teams etc., to understand existing business flows and model them into use cases to replace an existing legacy application for ADT. • Coordinated and managed interaction with various third party client groups within ADT. Coordinated multi-vendor development between software teams across locations to integrate client legacy system with different vendors and partner-providers.• Defined the integration architecture and application design using object oriented concepts and design patterns for an online sales portal for ADT. Implemented integration and remote services using Java, J2EE, EJBs and Spring to aggregate and transform data from variety of external systems.• As a module/Tech lead, responsible for creating design and the framework of the online sales application, this involved creation of skeleton code and implementation of core complex functionality. Created detailed design using UML and documented the same, provided technical direction and lead developers in implementing the design.• Created a Data Extraction framework to extract data and generate reports. This framework can be extended to provide reports specific to different modules. Extensive use of design patterns such as factory, singleton, service locator, session facade etc.• Developed database services and DAOs using Spring Framework, iBatis (ORM Framework), DB2, and Oracle. Created SQL Stored procedures and queries to store and retrieve data.

CORA (Clinical Outcome Resource Application) is an online reporting and benchmarking tool used by the clinical and Medical Equipment Manufacturing users to gather data from clinical research/trials. It provides administrative, contract management, reporting, benchmarking and trending capabilities. Dashboard Pilot for FRB was a Pilot to create an online issue tracking system.Responsibilities:• Analyzed and documented various reporting and trending requirements for Bellco Health. These benchmark reports helped clinical and manufacturing users to view their outcomes and compare it against those of other similar clinical trials. • Evaluated existing business functionality and recommended improvements and best fit solutions for FRB. Developed and showcased a prototype real time issue tracking system for FRB. • As a J2EE expert, provided consultation to another team, to increase the application performance and provided design improvement recommendations.• Developed User Interfaces using WebSphere Portlets, and third party APIs for charting capabilities (JFreeChart API) and PDF creation capabilities (iText API) for reporting and trending application for Bellco Health. • Involved in designing and development of benchmark reporting and administrative capabilities. Used free API for charting capabilities (JFreeChart API) and PDF download capabilities (iText API).

TeleAtlas is a leading Digital Mapping company providing GIS database services to the makers of car navigation systems all over the world. Preset Manager was a management tool that helped user manage a set of Business rules that can be grouped to form presets, including defining new presets, update existing, and to generate reports. The Attribute Editor was a pilot project executed for feasibility analysis, proof of concept, and also to gain expertise on Oracle Spatial. PT process automation was a project aimed at automating the process of generation of Phonemes. Responsibilities:• Lead various pilots and Proof-of–Concept projects.• As a module/Tech lead, responsible for creating the architecture, design and framework of the application, including creation of skeletal code and design diagrams using UML. Involved in the planning and estimations for the modules. • Detailed Requirement Analysis and Evaluated existing business functionality to recommended improvements and best fit solutions, including client interactions and demonstrations• Implemented and Integrated ‘Preset Manager’ Application using Struts, JDBC, JSP, Servlets, XML.• Designed and implemented admin module by extensively using GoF and J2ee design patterns. This module lets the user define the presets based on the rules in the rule database. It also assists in managing the builds to which these presets need to be applied. • Implemented SQL queries, Stored procedures and Triggers using PL/SQL on Oracle and used JDBC and DAO pattern. • Customer appreciation and signoff based on the requirement analysis and Pilots. Handled almost 80% of the tool analysis single-handedly.• Acted as the SQA for the Projects and did smoke testing and code reviews to ensure quality of deliverables. Also involved with preparing test cases.

• Coding of Admin and shipment preparation module using GoF and J2EE design patterns• Design and coding of frontend layer using MVC architecture, Struts, JSP & Servlets.• Involved with writing the test cases for admin and shipment preparation modules and UAT• Preparation and Execution of unit tests• Client interaction, issue resolution and status reporting• Configuration of the hardware and software for running tests.• Test Execution –Creating and execution of the tests scripts and manual testing for components like Terminal services.• Test Report Design -Designed the test reports for manual test reconciliation between Microsoft and Infosys.

Mba

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