Pavan Kulkarni Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign)Head of Platform Engineering - Persistent Systems (Databases, Message Queues), Reliability, Scaling, Shared Services, DevOps, Developer Experience, Delivery Engineering. In this role, helped build a strong platform team (through internal and external hiring, coaching), establishing team charters and define a platform roadmap. Currently driving our organization to achieve and maintain 99.95% uptimeDocument Previews PlatformManaged Previews Infrastructure Engineering team responsible for highly available service, which supports hundreds of file types across platforms and it handled over 2 Billion images per day. Lead the migration of service to optimize for cost per preview and established product roadmap.Orchestration Platform and PipelinesLead the team managing compute orchestration pipelines, task scheduling. Helped migration to a new generation compute SKU and POC for migration from homegrown orchestration tool (YSS/YAPS) to Mesos/Marathon. (More details about the service here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l-9YWUH-uo)Dropbox CoreData (aka Meta Data Services)Managed the team that owns the foundation for how all of our metadata is stored at Dropbox (EdgeStore). During my tenure helped develop a roadmap for future of the metadata platform, define strategy for server and client side SDK integration. Worked closely with Staff/Principal engineers to build technical roadmap for data migration, design of Panda and (internal) customer onboarding.Additional context: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/panda-metadata-stack-petabyte-scale-transactional-key-value-store

Enterprise Marketing Automation- Managed multiple engineering teams for frontend, backend and ML teams building Enterprise Marketing Automation suite- Recruited engineers for this 0-1 initiative, Drove the product vision for TAM 500M businesses for B2B marketing- Shipped products for Audience Segmentation, Multi-channel Marketing

New York, Ny, Us

- Lead the technology roadmap and direction of Consumer Media Platform (Bloomberg.com, Businessweek, Markets, Pursuits, Technology, Politics, Bloomberg.co.jp, View, Gadfly)- Managed multiple teams (30+ Engineers) of individual contributors and engineering managers, that delivered on several large scale initiatives- Worked closely with executive leadership, partnered with cross functional/cross regional leaders to inform and influence across- Created multi-CDN load balancing solution with high performance which helped improve reliability of consumer sites and cost management- Created a technical strategy for A/B testing platform - Setup recruitment/onboarding process for the org and built a world class engineering team- Deep expertise in architecting full stack media products with global audience (100M+ MAP) and leading teams on execution- Hands on experience with web application performance measurement, optimization techniques, with solid understanding of HTTP, protocol, multi-CDN deployments, cloud technologies, distributed systems- Deep understanding of server side technologies like NodeJS, Ruby, automation and continuous integration- Work closely with Editorial, AdOps, Analytics, QA, Product Managers and engineering teams to get high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle (build, test and release on time)- Lead the engineering teams for revenue generating initiatives - Ads and fraud detection systems- Created a Site Reliability Engineering team and developed processes to improve availability, scalability, performance and efficiency

New York, Ny, Us

- Engineering Management of teams for Bloomberg.com, Businessweek.com and other consumer web properties (web, mobile, web services, data, search and infrastructure)- Track record of taking over new teams and growing them into cohesive high performing units- Built a platform to componentize user facing web app, to enable rapid launch of multiple branded news sites, with social, SEO and front end site performance baked in - leveraging GraphQL, Nodejs, REST api, haproxy, memcached- Architected a platform to empower Bloomberg Editorial to manage various news websites leveraging automatic personalization, integration of different types of news content- videos, breaking news, live blogs, interactive charts, video - Responsible for launch/redesign of several high profile consumer web properties such as Bloomberg.com Businessweek.com and BloombergView.com - Recruited and lead new technical teams for Bloomberg Consumer Media in New York- Selected as one of the Top 100 leaders within the Bloomberg to participate in McKinsey Academy Executive Leadership Program- Architected micro-services based system to serve ~100K concurrent users using HAproxy, Node.js, memcached

New York, Ny, Us

* Re-architected 20 year old Businessweek.com infrastructure (backend and front end).* Ground up implementation of content management, authoring, curation, and media capabilities using tech stack powered by Ruby On Rails, MySQL, haproxy, Apache HTTPD, Akamai/Cloudfront* Led teams in the redesign of the Businessweek websites, resulting in a ~3x YOY increase in search traffic - leveraging HTML/CSS/CoffeeScript based front end delivery stack and REST Architecture for back end * Lead the team to build our own search engine using ElasticSearch and setup a high availability cluster

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

* Design and develop the Salesgenie.com using Prototype, jQuery libraries* Handling REST APIs with Amazon S3-style authentication and XML payloads* Setup a build and deployment for dev/test/staging and production environments with multiple load-balanced servers using Capistrano* Design and develop dashboard and reporting modules using third party graph/chart libraries and Ruby on Rails* Integration of the application with Oracle CRM* Salesforce integration, handling of XSS issues,Packaging* Salesforce AppExchange certification

El Segundo, Ca, Us

* Responsible for architecture design and development of Business Intelligence Dashboard to track high level executive status on the “business performance” of directv.com e-commerce* Designed Ruby on Rails based dashboard

Mountain View, California, Us

* Product Management - Primary responsibilities include maintaining product road map, driving product development timelines, provide competitive product positioning etc. * Technology and product evangelism - gave talks to open source communities and press address at IIM Bangalore and IISc Bangalore during BarCamp and FOSS.in* Collaborated with ISV in Europe and North America, customers in India* Pre-sales Activities and After sales activities, customer feedback to determine product pricing* Integration of Funambol with Open Xchange and MS Exchange 2003 using Funambol connectors, to offer Push Email, Calendar and Contact Sync* Recruitment for development team

Avishk Angels was angel investment and seed funding company. I was responsible for technology strategy / evaluation of business plans. We processed business plans in the areas of * mobile services and applications* education, eLearning* mobile payment gateways* social networking * renewable resources and eco-friendly construction materialsWe also negotiated a $100+ million deal between Hong Kong based investment company and a hotel resort in Bangalore

Co-founder, technology evangelist, architect, project coordinatorDeveloped a Web 2.0 application similar to Shopify.com.Small/big retailers/sellers could sign-up and open their own web store.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, In

Software Design, Coding (C++, Core Java, Ruby On Rails).Project Management - task estimation/prioritization

Bengaluru, Karnataka, In

Software Design, Coding (C++, Java Swing, Shell Scripting), Product Consulting

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Certification, Business Strategy

B.E, Computer Science