Director Of Plate Iq India / Engineering Manager / Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, Us
My work was a mix of many roles - development, recruitment, people management, and building Plate IQ's India software development operations from the ground up. First hire in India.* Set up the India subsidiary from scratch – managing everything from incorporation, FDI, transfer-pricing, payroll & benefits, accounting, finance and taxation, legal & compliance, etc.* Built the entire India team from zero by creating recruitment pipelines, interview loops, systematic and objective hiring processes, etc. to hire 40+ people across backend/frontend development, DevOps, testing, project management, HR and data operations roles.* Created a high-trust, low-management engineering culture. Brought about a culture for documentation, created wikis, set up templates for adoption, built handbooks, etc.* Designed and wrote the initial Plate IQ "Engineering Bootcamp", an intensive 2-week new-employee onboarding program to enable engineers to onboard in two weeks and deploy to production on Day 2. This included creating a template from which a new onboarding doc is created for each new hire for maximum clarity.* Built/maintained/owned/managed various different web/API services, reusable frameworks, libraries, scripts, etc. Set up a paging/alerting system and incident response processes for high uptime/reliability.