Head of the Product Engineering Vertical at Rakuten Advertising.Lead a global team (US, Ukraine & India) of Managers, Architects and Consultants.In charge of mobile engineering team and responsible for developing and maintaining Mobile App Tracking, Advertising & Attribution Platform and consumer applicationsProduct Engineering team provides a web-based portal for the Market Research Business worth ($25M+) serving Fortune 500 companies.Product Engineering also encompasses an e-receipt API Business. These API’s serve 2M+ users through Mobile Apps & Third Party Integrations.Being an engineer at heart, actively contribute to building lean, zero ops and cost-effective Software Infrastructure.Experienced in AWS Infrastructure Cost Optimizations, Tech Infra Resource Planning and budget negotiations with external Consulting agencies.As head of Hackers’ Club I guide engineers in rapid prototyping of products and evangelize latest technologies such as AWS Lambda, Step Functions etc. Many hackathon projects have developed into revenue-driving products.I work closely with sister companies at Rakuten such as Ebates to promote cross-business collaboration, strategize technology partnerships to build innovative products and drive revenue growth.Passionate about hiring, mentoring and growing teams. Grew the Product Engineering vertical from 2 people to 16 people team spanning 3 countries.

Led and managed Regional Product Development teams and instrumental in eBay India's growth and success. Built a strong team of 20 engineers within a short time span and ensure that team can scale up to meet the growing business needs of the India business. Led engineering driven projects such as Refer a friend, Kids vertical, Coupon enhancements, B2B Motors migration and several othersActive member of the Innovation forum and led several Innovation events including Skunkworks, Hackathon, Accelerate etc.

Literally formed the development and production support team from ground up. Strategized the knowledge transfer from outsourced vendor to in-house development team. Hired, mentored, developed technical leads and played a major role in engineer's career development.

Technically led team responsible for developing and delivering the customer support tools. Successfully delivered several Trust and Safety features.

Continued to be part of eBay as full time employee and developed and supported customer support services and tools.

Developed and maintained Customer Data gathering and aggregator tools.

Established a technical vision with the offshore development team. Design and developed dispute verification system using Java/J2EE

Was part of Discover Financials offshore development team. Maintained electronic bankruptcy notification system using Java and J2EE connector architecture.

Developed reporting system using Java/C#

Developed a proof of concept for hotel management system using Java and VC++. Proof of concept includes EPBAX simulator,online hotel reservation system using Java servlets and Oracle database.