Engineering executive with extensive industry experience in driving technology strategies and spearheading engineering, product and innovation teams within hyper-growth environments. Utilizing a results-oriented approach, successfully built and launched SaaS products by forging strategic alliances among product, engineering and business on value-driven goals. Championed innovation initiatives that resulted in the successful releases of numerous AI-based features and applications built with a strong foundation of MLOps practices and platform tools. Established a global engineering hub strategy and formed high-performing diverse teams of over 90 people globally, while prioritizing a people-first approach, leading to remarkable retention rates. Effectively managed substantial ROI and an annual budget in the tens of millions. Enhanced engineering operations by embracing the “shift-left” principle, fostering the “You build it, You own it '' mindset, and modernizing applications and devops practices, resulting in accelerated delivery without compromising quality. Executed a comprehensive cloud cost optimization strategy encompassing capacity planning, resource management, and vendor coordination, leading to significant enhancements in cloud expenditure. Had the privilege of presenting as a featured speaker at the AWS re:Invent conference in both 2017 and 2020. Additionally, honored as a distinguished speaker at the Women in Silicon Roundabout conference in London in 2018. Delighted to have been invited as an esteemed guest on The Tech Track Podcast in 2022 and the Thoughtful Edge Podcast in 2023. Recently, had an opportunity to conduct the ELC Annual 2023 conference's most well-received RoundTable on successful platform strategy.