Jijoe Vurghese Email & Phone Number

Allen, Tx, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

★ Developed a comprehensive roadmap to scale the product to accommodate twice the number of customers in 2024 and ten times the number in 2025.★ Conducted thorough assessments of the backend and frontend code to create a detailed execution plan for scaling the product technology, security, and engineering processes.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

★ Analyzed company-wide Azure cloud usage to deliver a detailed execution plan for over 60% cost reduction.★ Delivered a continuous deployment process and technology, paving a path to production for new products.★ Provided a scalable observability solution for Spring Boot API deployments at Zafin, enhancing the ability to monitor and troubleshoot the performance of APIs in real-time.

Austin, Tx, Us

★ Crafted organization structure and hiring plans for next-gen products in collaboration with C-suite.★ Conducted thorough assessments of backend and frontend product architecture to create roadmap for new offerings.

★ Developed a comprehensive product persona map and feature gap analysis for the Qleet platform, ensuring stakeholder alignment.★ Crafted product messaging to effectively communicate the platform's value proposition to target audiences.★ Collaborated with cross-functional teams to prepare for the next steps in product development.

New York, New York, Us

At Addepar, I served as a Senior Director, responsible for on-time, on-budget delivery of the company software platform to increase developer efficiency and reduce operating expenses.My chief responsibilities include formulating a clear vision, a short- and long-term roadmap, building the team to deliver the platform engineering and developer efficiency strategy, maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction, and ensuring collaboration across multiple cross-functional teams.Highlights of my notable accomplishments in this position include:★ Spearheaded a company-wide initiative, bringing together multiple squads from various Engineering teams to build a software platform enabling the successful delivery of over 15 products aimed at delivering exceptional value to customers.★ Orchestrated a threefold growth of a global Software Platform organization, through leadership in mission, vision, hiring, mentoring, and coaching.★ Integrated a metrics-driven approach to optimize the workflow, capacity requirements, and reduce cognitive burden for Software Platform teams - a blueprint adopted across the R&D organization.★ Envisioned and crafted a roadmap and Now/Next/Later strategy for a software platform to improve the developer efficiency strategy and elevate productivity.

Sacramento, Us

As the Senior Vice President of Engineering, I led a highly skilled executive team in devising the multi-year product roadmap and bringing that vision to fruition.In the same capacity, I contributed to team transformation and improvement efforts, supported the transition from a feature factory mentality to a forward-looking product vision, and functioned as the Chief Architect with accountability for all engineering objectives and deliverables.Select few of my notable accomplishments in this position include:★ Directed the Engineering team in executing the seamless conversion of decades old legacy codebase to a contemporary technology stack, with no disruptions. ★ Fostered a culture of continuous learning, career development, estimation, delivery processes, and tooling to enhance the engineering team's throughput and deliverable quality.★ Steered the Product and Engineering teams through the planning and prioritization phase to devise a multi-year technology and product roadmap and implementation strategy.

In this role, I led the Engineering team to develop and deliver a state-of-the-art cloud analytics and business intelligence (BI) data platform.My responsibilities involved crafting development/expansion plans in alignment with projected customer growth, adapting agile software development processes to maintain strict compliance with FDA regulatory requirements, and instituting root cause analysis best practices.Additionally, I was designated as the Principal Architect for short- and long-term technology product roadmaps with complete control over all facets of engineering strategies, operations, budgets, deliverables, and teams.Select few of my accomplishments in this position include:★ Spearheaded the development, implementation, and launch of a self-healing data platform that cut operational overhead by 60% - from 80% to 20%, resulting in a surge in uptime from 20% to 99.9%.★ Cut unplanned engineering activities by 50% by improving transparency and streamlining workflows/processes in conjunction with Product and Customer Success teams.★ Overhauled and rebuilt a high-performing Engineering organization from the ground up and curtailed engineering operating costs following a reduction-in-force (RIF) without comprising on product feature development or delivery rate.★ Doubled customer-facing service delivery capacity by establishing global teams for engineering and customer success functions.★ Continually contributed to process improvement efforts; notably optimizing software validation, product monitoring, outage detection, on-call rotation, and escalation processes, balancing the needs for agility and regulatory compliance.

San Mateo, California, Us

For Nextag, I oversaw a globally-distributed platform, service, and operational team that supported the organizational platform architecture roadmap and development.Highlights of my accomplishments in this position include:★ Established a 16-hour daily development cycle by building a remote engineering and support team.★ Successfully delivered a multi-year architecture roadmap for an online price comparison leader, creating long-term enterprise product engineering plans and budgets.★ Pioneered the creation of Nextag's first DevOps team in India, reducing the engineering team's workload by 60%.★ Achieved a 100% uptime rate on peak usage dates every year, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday.★ Championed the funding, development, delivery, and implementation of a new streaming data search platform that reduced data latency from 18-24 hours to 10 minutes, leading to a two-fold search response time improvement.★ Optimized the page render speed for the flagship site, nextag.com, by 40%.★ Significantly increased hotel matching for travel service providers from 30% to 90% by revamping the hotel catalog; shortened the integration time for new travel service providers from 14 to 3 days by introducing industry standards.

Dallas, Tx, Us