As a Senior Engineering Manager, I am responsible for Underwriting Risk Identification & Management, Insurance Policy Management, External Partner-Quoting API integrations and an internal shared service (Home Property).Underwriting (UW) Risk - Given that the company needed to be profitable, it is critical to lower its loss ratio.- Aligned the business & product stakeholders to create a roadmap with the above goals as a north star.- Achieved a 22% reduction in expected loss ratio putting the company on the path to profitability.- Architected a risk management system which hedges Hippo’s exposure to concentrated catastrophic risks in a geography thereby protecting Hippo against severe weather events (causing massive claim losses).- Created a system to dynamically identify risky applications based on the company’s risk appetite. - Built a Risk Assessment Tool to improve the quality and efficiency of reviewing risks by saving 12 hrs/week/underwriter.Data cost savings - In order to be profitable, Hippo needed to lower its 3rd party data expenses.- Formed strong partnerships across all four business unit engineering & product leaders to create & adopt a shared service to manage home/property data which is central to their business operations.- Built Quoting APIs for external partners to integrate with Hippo:-- 30% data vendor spend reduced.-- Reduced 99p api latency from 20+s to 4 seconds with the long pole being data vendor latency.Organizational efficiency - Hippo went from a startup to mid sized public company creating a need for engineering leaders and an organization that is nimble and an efficient execution machine.- Played a pivotal role in scaling the engineering teams for the Insurance Business Unit.- Grew Senior Engineers to Staff Engineers & Team Leads, fostering a culture of trust, autonomy & up leveling engineers.- Mentored senior and staff engineers to navigate having difficult conversations and provide candid feedback to junior engineers.

As an Engineering Manager at Linden Labs, I was responsible for the gameplay experience and built a flourishing economy for both creators and players in the Virtual Reality based Virtual world - Sansar. I managed 6 engineers spread across geographic locations and job functions to accomplish this.Platform for Creators - The company relied on commissions from sale of virtual goods which necessitated a healthy supply and demand of content creators being able to sell their virtual goods to players.- Bootstrapped in-game commerce store which had a 90% traffic adoption rate and resulted in 2x sales.- In-game commerce store was also leveraged to sell real life merchandise at virtual concerts. Gamification - Content creators needed the virtual worlds to be fun for players and showcase their virtual goods.- Drove strategic business decisions by working closely with product and game designer stakeholders.- Build a Role playing quest system which creators used to make their virtual worlds fun and rewarding.- Integrated with Twitch to enable influencers and streamers showcasing virtual worlds.Organizational efficiency - - Mentored engineers with diverse skill sets and grew 2 engineers to become Tech Leads.- Identified and built infrastructure tooling to improve developer efficiency across the organization.

Language: C, C++, Python, GDB, Valgrind• Drove the effort to open source SDK & helped shape SDK from inception to launch• Reviewed APIs for performance & memory leaks• Mentored junior engineers on the team• Fixed memory leaks in the simulator from 1.9Mb to 0 bytes/packet using Valgrind • Designed and implemented network topology to simulate single unit, multi-device communication

Language/Tools: C++, WinDBG• Implemented power management and a tool which deals with hysteresis for Windows Blue & Win8• Implemented display context switching on the fly between native GPU and nvidia GPU• Lead initiative to ensure both new and old features are backwards compatible with changing hardware

Language: Java• Developed the core API of the product, with performance and design as its key focus• Integrating external APIs for rapid prototyping new ideas• Lead team of 3 people to deliver product with zero codebase and aggressive timelines • Defined agile processes to improve productivity and bring visibility in team performance

Languages: Java, (ASP.NET) C#, WCF, SQL Server 2010• Developed commerce portal with a pluggable architecture integrating multiple payment providers• Developed end-to-end Credit Card payment system with PCI security compliance• Developed Analytics API which enabled game developers to publish events consumed by BI team• Following agile processes, consistently delivered milestones on time

Technology: C++ / Python- Developing framework for inserting ads in HTTP live video streaming on server side - Developing product to enable live Video streaming through internet across different devices- Prototype adaptive bitrate video streaming media player on android OS- Maintain legacy code and integrate it with newly developed product for backward compatibility

FIFA (Nintendo 3DS)Technology: C++, C#, ActionScript2, Nant Scripts, Python - Extended rendering primitives to support in-game User Interface elements in depth - Collaborated extensively with the UI designer to get Flash/ActionScript screens working in game - Modified asset pipeline using Nant scripts to support new game modes - Moderated C#/Nant scripts which dealt with compiling all the assets of the game - Setup compiler defines to handle different build configurations in sync with all the other dependency packages - Worked closely with other team members to ensure project deliverables are completed on-schedule

Technology: C++, OpenGL, Qt, CGAL, Boost - Developed software for reconstructing terrain-surface using Marching Triangle Algorithm - Implemented Delaunay Triangulation constraint - Implemented renderer in OpenGL to view the CGAL Polyhedron model - Studied computational geometry concepts such as Polyhedron and half-edge data structures

Technology: Java Swings, JDBC, MVC - Simplified decision-making for client by facilitating managers to work at concept or knowledge level - Designed software individually using 3-tier architecture of Presentation, Application & Data Layer - Implemented design patterns using MVC framework, Data Transfer Object, Data Access Object - Implemented validation layer attached to Presentation and DAO Layer - Implemented flexible search utility giving user the option to search based on desired fields - Developed custom Exception Library to provide useful messages to the client