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Sunnyvale, California, United States

Led key initiatives within the Commerce Experiences and Platform (CXP) org. The main priority for this organization is to enable commerce advertisers to grow their business through the Shops experiences across Meta family of apps (Facebook & Instagram).• Drove cross-company (Meta <> Shopify) alignment for organizational priorities, delivered H1 2023 roadmap and managed execution for roadmap items which involved escalating, negotiating and prioritizing for high-impact initiatives on a regular basis.• Spearheaded strategy/roadmap creation, risk mitigation planning and execution for 0-click (auto-upgrade) and 1-click (opt-in) initiatives that involved migrating Shopify sellers with offsite shop to onsite checkout on Meta channels. This complex project required collaboration with several XFN partners including product, eng, legal, privacy and policy as well as frequent co-ordination with multiple teams within the organization. This was a key strategic initiative and a top Commerce org priority that laddered up to Ads org revenue goals and enabled signal growth via 1P data, which is critical for Ads performance/ROI for advertisers.

Blink Health is a late-stage digital health start up with a mission to make prescription drugs accessible and more affordable for everyone. • Led critical programs that increased Pharma prescriptions for the company by 8x over a 6-month period. Collaborated with multiple stakeholders (Product, Pharmacy managers and multiple Engineering teams) to manage the programs from inception to delivery.• Led a large strategic technology initiative related to e-Prescribing that eliminated reliance on third party pharmacy software for managing electronic prescriptions. Managed relationship with external partners from assessment through delivery including working with legal for contract finalization.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Leading engineering teams responsible for analysis, design, implementation and testing of high availability/high volume tier-1 middleware applications that supported 70+ consuming client applications.• Managed middleware applications in the customer and debit card domain that supported hundreds of web services developed on the legacy platform using SOAP/XML and modern application using microservices (REST/JSON). Good understanding of scalable distributed systems.• Program management and delivery of critical enterprise initiatives e.g. My Wells Fargo Deals, California Consumer Privacy Act, Multi-channel leads. Experienced in program risk identification and management.• Collaborated with multiple cross-functional teams and application partners on initiatives. • Created technology road map for initiatives that impacted multiple channels within the bank.• Experienced in leading and mentoring the team in Agile Transformation.• Led the team in the effort to create microservices for customer and card domain using CI/CD pipeline. Improved time to market from three months to weeks.• Developed strategies for moving brownfield monolithic middleware applications to microservices.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for delivery of initiatives in the Cards domain e.g. Travel plans, Debit card inventory management, instant issue activation, card alerts.• Experienced in Event-driven architecture (EDA).• Collaborated with line of business partners on initiatives prioritization.• Experienced in hiring, performance management and mentoring team members.• Managed geographically dispersed team in different time zones.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Led the analysis, design and implementation of Operational Data Store using Oracle 10g. This was a large effort that involved building a new database application, IBM MQ messages, batch/ETL programs and stored procedures. Today, the application supports 25 billion+ inquiries per month across 3 data centers.• Developed stored procedure for transaction history and PL/SQL scripts for testing/production support.• Drive requirements gathering sessions with business partners. Responsible for impact analysis and technical design of middleware services. Acted as a liaison between engineering teams, client and business partners for delivery of web services.• Successfully implemented web services in the account domain for numerous initiatives related to online banking, online statements, overdraft protection, spending report and check order services which involved interfacing with various bank SORs including Hogan.• Created technical specifications for impacted web services and stored procedures.