General Manager & Md, India | Data Engineering & Scaling Teams
Redwood City, Ca, Us
Spearheaded strategy development and execution for India while leading new product offerings, cross-functional initiatives, and regional key customer opportunities.Managed ~40% of the worldwide R&D headcount at the India lab. In six years, the engineering organization grew fivefold to more than 600 engineers.Helped create new engineering teams for Cloud, CEP, MDM, ILM, UM, B2B, and the CTO's office.Created new function teams for product management, usability eng, and documentation.Explored and funded applied research projects in ML, CEP & Hadoop at tier-1 institutes.Recruited over 300 people, including SSE, PSE, Staff SE, managers, directors, and PMs.Implemented processes to sustain hiring at pace; at one stage, made one offer/day for five months.Achieved R&D attrition rate lower than the company's average; instituted leadership pipelines.Led a cross-functional team, from engineering, pre-sales, support, and services, in a bid for Indonesia's largest telecom provider's metering and billing systems.Proposed and implemented an IP buy-back model for connectors, leading to 40% cost savings.Ranked amongst the top 150 most influential people in Big Data and Hadoop by GreyCampus. Key Technologies: Cloud - iPaaS, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Brokerless Messaging, MDM, and CEP.