‣ Led brainstorming, evaluation, and implementation of 10x business growth initiative.‣ Led company’s continuous improvement in organizational structure and operational efficiency using Entrepreneurial Operating System.‣ Introduced new organization-wide interview process based on the company values.‣ Closely worked with product and sales to prioritize project priority and deadlines, which has directly led to new customer acquisition.‣ Reduced project release times from 4-6 months to consistent major feature releases every month.‣ Expanded the engineering team and revamped the team culture to achieve greater team cohesion.‣ Rewrote the original monolithic PHP platform into Python microservices with React front-end while delivering business features.‣ An individual contributor on business features and DevOps projects in addition to management responsibilities.

‣ Led product definition of three deployment and operational orchestration platforms and managing three development teams in Chicago, Boston, and Berlin.‣ Reduced communication overhead for engineers by 1.5 hours per day through reorganization.‣ Improved the quality and speed of delivery by creating a consistent and focused product definition and revamping development process.‣ Raised customer satisfaction and platform adoption by closer customer engagement and prioritization based on customer feedback.

‣ Senior manager over the organization that built the Digital Mortgage, an industry leading online mortgage product.‣ Worked with business stakeholders on continuous improvement of tech/business collaboration and adoption of agile methods organizationally.‣ Launched a company-wide employee recognition program based on core company values.‣ Led the departmental transition from .NET to polyglot Linux-based microservices and AWS architecture.‣ Led the adoption of DevOps culture, methods and operational tool chain.‣ Was actively involved in sourcing candidates and promoting Guaranteed Rate engineering.‣ Mentored and trained managers and engineers on the hiring approach and interviewing principles.‣ Managed the design and build out of the new event-driven architecture to decouple data and services from the legacy monolithic system.‣ Managed the migration of the business critical 3rd-party Loan Origination System to the vendor cloud.

‣ Led organizational DevOps adoption and Continuous Delivery team in developing and introducing new approaches, processes and tools around building, publishing and deploying software.‣ Led the company through a global migration to a new source control system.‣ Oversaw the panel responsible for choosing and leading the adoption of a new application deployment system.‣ As the manager of the Quality Engineering team, overhauled the company’s functional and performance testing strategies and product portfolio to refocus on the decentralized DevOps model.‣ Managed an offshore Production Support Team that ensured the quality of all production deployments.‣ Mentored Team Leads to help them grow professionally as managers and leaders in the organization.‣ Actively participated in recruiting including leading one of college hiring teams.‣ Led the team responsible for developing and driving adoption of core company technologies.

‣ Given responsibility for the completion of a full re-design of Orbitz Hotel backend to support new and emerging industry business models. Responsible for ensuring that the new design is flexible enough for future business needs.‣ Currently leading company-wide DevOps effort to automate all operational configurations and software deployments.‣ Kicked off and currently overseeing a workgroup tasked with redesigning currency exchange handling for the entire Orbitz Worldwide system. Success determined by a decrease in errors and demonstrably increased extensibility.‣ Conceived and led successful company-wide change from large monolithic bi-monthly releases to smaller decoupled bi-weekly releases independently done by each team.‣ Efficiently orchestrated the team’s move to Agile project management

‣ Interfaced with external clients in sales, feature requests and maintenance meetings as the technical representative of Orbitz Web Services product.‣ Led the development and launch of a brand new Web Services platform set to replace two legacy ones.‣ Launched two new major search & book Web Services clients – Southwest Airlines and Affinion Group.‣ Planned and executed complete cut over and retirement of a legacy Web Service solution.‣ Was responsible for operations of two high transaction web service solutions with 2.5 million transactions a day, 32 production servers and 80+ clients.‣ Introduced and converted the team to Agile project management which was followed by organization-wide transition a year later.

‣ Led the development of all Hotel servicing (booking, cancel, refund, etc) back-end functionality.‣ Validated and approved requirements and architectural designs of new projects and features.‣ Developed in Java under Linux utilizing popular technologies like Spring, Hibernate and JMS.‣ Profiled for performance optimizations and ensured proper level of logging and monitoring in the production code.‣ Performed traffic and system capacity estimation and ordered new hardware when required.‣ Trained and mentored junior and other developers.

‣ Designed and developed new major vacation packaging products - Air+Hotel, Hotel+Car and Air+Car+Hotel.‣ Migrated Cheaptickets.com from its legacy implementation to newer Orbitz.com platform for all vacation packaging products.‣ Participated in the effort to build white labeling on Orbitz.com platform.‣ Responsible for performance, logging, monitoring and optimizations.

‣ Developed front and back-end functionality using Java under Linux for Orbitz for Business brand.‣ Ensured proper level of production performance.‣ Participated in 24x7 production support and maintenance.

‣ Redesigned and implemented financial month-end jobs. Decreased running time from 30 hours to 15 minutes.‣ Designed, implemented and supported SQL stored-procedures, queries, triggers and SQL jobs.‣ Developed application front-end and business logic using VB6.‣ Performed in-house network and domain administration and support.