Member Of Technical Staff
CurrentI joined eightfold.ai early on and as the company grew, I wore many hats and was fortunate to slide into the many challenges it needs solving.- I started of as a product engineer building its Scheduling product and taking it to GoLive.This involved wear the hat as a PM at times, speaking to customers, their info-sec teams, doing the required unscalable stuff to scale. This is still the most stickiest product in the entire company platform.- I then pivoted to starting JobIntelligence… Show more I joined eightfold.ai early on and as the company grew, I wore many hats and was fortunate to slide into the many challenges it needs solving.- I started of as a product engineer building its Scheduling product and taking it to GoLive.This involved wear the hat as a PM at times, speaking to customers, their info-sec teams, doing the required unscalable stuff to scale. This is still the most stickiest product in the entire company platform.- I then pivoted to starting JobIntelligence platform which address the problem of how do we represent Roles across customers and enable them to do skill based hiring. I was the first engineer on this, worked with the leadership on the product direction, wrote the initial code, and was responsible for hiring & building a team around it.- Post which, I moved to the Infrastructure team starting a new sub-division called TestInfrastructure. This involved building tooling to catch regressions sooner, tooling to write better unit-tests without external dependencies, tooling to reduce Flaky tests- Then I moved, as a lead engineer, to address the analytics needs of the company. a) This involved building and maintaining pipelines for building production grade BI dashboards. Like a tool for data analysts to construct a dashboard without writing code: the tool auto-generates code for it. b) Rebuilding ETL pipeline from a Spark based batch systems to a Streaming based incremental pipeline.This reduced the staleness of the warehouse system to few mins from many hours, while maintaining strong consistency guarantees Show less