As a Vice President and Technical Fellow at eBay, I run Platform & Infra (private cloud) Engineering for the global eCommerce marketplace, providing infrastructure for 4000+ engineers to deliver products at scale. Before this role, I was in the Product engineering space, building consumer-facing applications at eBay and Yahoo. A true hands-on leader, combining deep technical expertise and organizational leadership to operationalize and deliver the organization’s mission and vision.I frequently write, speak, and host an annual nationwide university Machine Learning challenge — https://www.senthilp.com.Key Accomplishments 1. Engineering Velocity: Spearheading a companywide initiative to continuously improve engineering and product velocity, with the primary goal of reducing the clock time between idea and customer value. Today, we are doing 4x more deployments, 140% more A/B experiments, reduced lead time to software release from 3 weeks to 1 day, and iOS/Android app releases from monthly to weekly, compared to 3 years ago.2. User Experience: Conceptualized & created the “Speed” team to retain eBay as the fastest eCommerce platform in the world. Today, eBay is one of the fastest eCommerce marketplaces across the web, iOS, and Android, at least 2.4 seconds faster than the slowest competitor. Through these efforts, we delivered 100bps ($700M) in global GMV and are continuing. Co-implemented a framework for rapid multi-screen application development with feature parity at eBay. Feature parity improved from 65% to 98%, and CSAT score from 60% to 87%.3. Security, Availability, & Modernization: Led the initiative to migrate all eBay public traffic to HTTPS to increase security and privacy for users, along with designing the traffic routing infra for increased resiliency. Established and leading a team to ensure automatic monthly software upgrades for 3800+ eBay applications. Together, it resulted in 99.96% annual availability and zero customer-facing security or privacy issues in recent years.4. Builder: Active creator and maintainer of many libraries, frameworks, tools, user interface systems, and architectural patterns used throughout the eBay codebase powering platform and all production applications.5. Hire and Develop the Best: Bar raiser for eBay’s senior engineering and executive hiring, conducting over hundreds of interviews across various tech and product roles. A people leader specialized in bootstrapping and rapidly scaling high-performing teams.
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