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Technology consulting, including global recruiting strategies, vendor negotiations optimal architectures, planning and development processes. Operational effectiveness, change management and innovation programs. One to one or team coaching and mentoring,

New York, New York, US

New York, New York, US

Focussed on acquisitions, hiring, key vendor relationships, cost management, mentoring and other strategic projects.

New York, New York, US

• ✔Responsible for the definition, development and support for the next generation Zeta Marketing Platform that encompasses the Data Cloud Platform, CRM, a Demand Side Platform (DSP) and a Supply Side Platform (SSP).
• Reporting to the President and COO, managed a team of over 240 engineers, including Data Scientists, Onboarding and Support Engineers.
• Grew the team from 25 members to over 240 members in less than 6 quarters via creating Centers of Engineering Excellence in Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Philippines, Prague and Vietnam.
• Developed a SMB platform into an Enterprise platform which won the Best in Class Forrester Research Award, ahead of platforms from much larger players (including Salesforce, Oracle, Adobe).
• Integrated teams and platforms from multiple Zeta acquisitions, leading to a seamless experience for customers and optimized development costs.
• Negotiated multiple contracts with large vendors (e.g. AWS, Snowflake, Aerospike). The negotiated deals that were classified as “unbeatable” by firms specializing in such negotiations.

• ✔Boomtrain used machine learning to provide relevant recommendations for each customer of our customers across multiple channels (on-site, email, messaging, push notifications).Grew and managed team of engineers and.
• Took over a low-morale engineering team and a platform experiencing daily outages. Turned the engineering into a highly productive team that stabilized the platform and delivered the next generation machine learning.
• Worked closely with the Product and Business teams to create a roadmap and resolve customer escalations.
• Reduced AWS costs by 50% on CPM for events processed, recommendations served basis.
• Tech Stack: AWS, Kafka, Redis, Aerospike, Elastic Search, Python Django. ✔ Platform handles close to a billion events, with under 50ms average server side response time.

US

• Managed a distributed team of team of 45 engineers, consisting of Development, DevOps, Data Science and QA teams.✔ Tech stack contains Django/Python, Solr, AWS (S3, EMR, Redshift), Redis, iOS/Android mobile apps.
• In conjunction with the Product and Business teams, lead the creation of a multi-quarter roadmap.
• Introduced and fostered a culture of “action” leading to rapid deployment of multiple features including a mobile responsive site, key SEO initiatives, an order of magnitude increase in number of jobs aggregated from.
• In the first two months improved robustness and performance matrices for the website, average response times reduced to under 1s from over 6s, Simultaneously reduced engineering and operations costs by over 30%.
• Hired top-tier engineering talent and created a team of 10 engineers in Philippines, leading to a significant improvement in available engineering bandwidth.

Austin, Texas, US

• Managed Identity Management (IDM) for SaaS and PaaS applications, with a globally distributed team of up to 110 engineers.
• Reduced escalations/bugs in Life Cycle Management operations of IDM for Fusion Applications (SaaS) from several hundred escalations to only 2 issues during quarterly upgrade of about 2500 customers installs across.
• Delivered 2 releases of Shared- IDM (SIM) for all Oracle PaaS services with features such as authentication, identity management, Single Sign-On (SSO). SIM supported about 15,000 tenants.Delivered the first.
• Created a high quality team of 15 engineers to implement IDM as a service (iDaaS). Championed use of Agile processes and tools (Docker, YouTrack, JIRA, Git, TeamCity..). Team created rapid POCs used for demos and early.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Atlantis provides best in class solution for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) applications.Managed the development, QA and DevOps teams.
• Delivered critical features (e.g. Central Management System, crash consistency) and stabilized the core product in a short time with industry leading performance.
• Delivered an innovative product that utilized memory (Diskless VDI) for de-duping and caching operating system files with support for leading industry hypervisors in record time. This led to 90% reduction in NAS.
• Engaged with several large customers to better understand usage of product and improve its architecture.
• Grew the Development/QA team from 3 to 16, including architect and lead engineers.

• Adchemy was a Mayfield backed company with a strategic investment and marketing partnership with Accenture. Adchemy created a scalable platform for online advertising.✔ Managed the Development, Data Science, QA, BI and.
• In conjunction with the Product Team, created and maintained a product roadmap across several product lines that continuously balanced priorities and resources.
• Assured the logical architecture and data center was architected and tested to handle large volumes of load (up to a billion records a day) with stringent response time characteristics.
• Grew the Engineering Team from 30 to 80 engineers with 35 engineers in Philippines.Hires included four Architects (15+ years), 3 Siebel Engineers of the Year awardees, and other highly qualified Directors and engineers.
• Created light weight processes to deliver an innovative advertising platform supporting media buying, keyword buying, dynamic banner generation and required backend analytics to determine effectiveness of internet.

US

Makati City, PH

• Hired by Kleiner Perkins to try and resolve technical problems at Friendster:✔ Within a year, created a scalable platform to take Friendster from being a top 120 site to being a top 8 web site in the world (Comscore)..
• Within two quarters, reduced average response time on Friendster site to under two seconds from over nine seconds.
• Within three quarters, created a superior development team with sixty-five members located in Mountain View and Philippines. Team consisted of Software Engineers, UI Designers, Product Managers and Quality Engineers..
• Saved over $1.8M in operating costs during the first 9 months at Friendster via (re)negotiations with several vendors.
• Negotiated several key deals with partners and vendors (Facebook, Akamai, Internap, telcos) for supporting developer platform, Mobile products and hardware/bandwidth for web site.
• Delivered several key features including, support for 8 languages, re-designed Homepage, Friend Tracker, Opensocial and Facebook developer platforms, integration with Google Adsense, Google Ad Server and Zedo (Walk-up.

San Mateo, CA, US

Bootstrapped next generation security infrastructure software products enabled with a top notch team I hired.

Austin, Texas, US

Delivered a re-architected Siebel Web Engine (SWE) platform for over 200 Siebel applications. SWE went from most trouble prone tier to a reliable and high performance platform.Hired for and managed a team of 44 engineers.Promoted every year at Siebel.✔ Won multiple awards including the Chairman's Award.

Dulles, Virginia, US

• Netscape Web Server, Netscape Application Server (NAS)
• Responsible for five functional groups, six managers, total group of 65 development and QA engineers.
• Delivered several releases of, Legacy data/ERP connectivity from NAS and Process Automation Edition of NAS, an internet based workflow system.
• Responsible for Development, QA, Documentation and Sustaining functions for Netscape Enterprise and FastTrack Web Servers (NES).
• Integrated team of 15 SUN engineers into the Web Server teams. HR declared Web Server group to be most integrated/motivated group with least attrition rates.
• Performed technical due diligence for several companies for acquisition/ technology partnership with Netscape including evaluating Application Server companies.

Beee (Hons), Electronic Eng

Msee, Computer & Systems Engg

Mscs, Databases