Senior Staff Engineer
CurrentSuccessfully led and managed a highly technical team responsible for building scalable, high-throughput (20k location events/second) applications on the Central Next-Gen Experience platform, ensuring alignment with technical and product roadmaps.Worked closely with Product Managers, UX, and technical leads to define and update the product roadmap, advise on feature breakdown, and ensure that design documents for upcoming features were well-prepared for development.Led critical discussions on design and architecture with cross-functional teams, advocating for robust technical decisions. Oversaw the transition to a Kafka Streams backbone, utilizing Kafka State Stores to enhance scalability and performance.Advanced code quality, bug resolution, and team productivity metrics, contributing to our team's recognition as one of the highest productivity team within Aruba Networks.Conducted regular 1:1s and team knowledge-sharing sessions, covering topics like distributed systems, open-source tools, and test-driven development, fostering a collaborative and continuous learning culture.Coached and mentored direct reports, ensuring engagement, motivation, and skill development.Managed release schedules, ensuring alignment with quality and availability standards. Acted as a key liaison in cross-functional collaboration to meet feature readiness and stability goals.Leveraged expertise in Java-based microservices, Kafka, and distributed system design, with familiarity in public cloud, Kubernetes, Git, Linux, and Prometheus to support technically autonomous engineering teams.Technologies: Java, Python, Kafka, Kafka Streams, ClickHouse, ArangoDB, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCDCloud Providers: AWSAreas: Backend Services Design, Architecture, Disaster Recovery, Scalability