Sai Nayagar Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Are you overpaying on Cloud spend? Use our free search engine to find the best priced compute across AWS, Azure and GCP, updated hourly: https://app.saveoncloudcosts.com/search Prior to Save On Cloud Costs:A senior engineering leader with over 20 years of experience in innovative technology solutions, helping companies save and generate revenue in the Billions.Transformed Magic: The Gathering LiveOps program, enhancing player experiences and boosting revenue from $450 million to over $1 billion. Orchestrated and was the technology leader behind several high-value acquisitions, including:• Acquisition of D&D Beyond, for $146 million• $50 million Choose Energy deal with Red Ventures • and the successful acquisitions of Custom House (by Western Union), Index (by Stripe), and Medeo (by QHR Technologies).

Bellevue, Washington, Us

• Grew Wizards revenue from $450M to over $1B per year within 4 years, utilizing ground-breaking LiveOps strategies.• Led the digital platforms group (central tech team) responsible for LiveOps for the entire company.• Migrated a large on-premises legacy system that hosted games for millions of Magic players, to a modern cloud native solution, using Kubernetes, Web and Mobile apps deployed to AWS.• Grew the technology org from 15 people in 2018 to over 50 people in 2022GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES:• Technology leader development – We develop our people through training, encouraging team members to take risks and develop a growth mindset.• Strategic Planning – Create technology plans which includes business model development, resourcing planning (onshore, nearshore, and offshore), product development and technology acquisitions.• Engineering Culture & Values – Ensuring our values of growth, bias for action, perseverance and empathy guide the way our group operates at all levels.Wizards of the Coast is best known for the products Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons. I lead the digital platforms group that is responsible for maintaining all technology that supports the Magic and D&D Brands.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Delivered a $50 million dollar acquisition by Red Ventures• Many product improvements including checkout funnel optimization, application performance enhancements, supplier integrations etc.• Built a high-performance engineering team and cultureGENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES• Technology Strategy – Developed our technology strategy and presented quarterly updates to the board of directors (VC and Investors).• Leading the engineering team – Developing our culture and values by focusing on hiring, bias for action and accountability.• Software Engineering – I was actively involved in the development of systems that supported our business.Choose Energy is the biggest online energy marketplace in North America originating over $1 billion of energy supply and was backed by Silicon Valley VC Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers. Reporting directly to the CEO, I was the head of engineering and part of the senior leadership team.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Launched the campaign management web application, through which retailers send thousands of email receipts with dynamic offers every day.• Implemented continuous delivery deployment process with full end-to-end testing using sauce labs and selenium.• Launched a new marketing company site which included improvements to the design and mobile support.Index Inc was a Silicon Valley startup that developed customer loyalty systems for retailers. I led the engineering group that developed the platform that used dynamic offers on electronic receipts to drive repeat purchases and customer engagement.

I manage a team of software developers that is responsible for building the software platform for Medeo. Our platform is composed of multiple technologies including Ruby on rails, AngularJS, Lua and Node.JS. Our development culture promotes the polyglot language philosophy where we use the best technology for the job. My general responsibilities:• Software development - I spend about 50% of my time writing code for our product, we are an agile development team, with a 2 week development cycle at the end of which we release to production.• Product planning - I am one of three people the meet regularly to determine the direction of our product. I represent engineering in these meetings and it is my job to ensure that our road map contains the time required to build quality software and reduce our overall technical debt.• Developer engagement - I am personally motivated to ensure our developers are getting the most out of their time at Medeo. I conduct regular one on ones with them so that I can have an open dialog and proactively help them achieve their goals.AchievementsImplemented and Launched the new Medeo SAAS product • Implemented WebRTC peer to peer video conferencing technology • Integrated XMPP chat server (Prosody/Lua) into our product • Built a web application using AngularJS • Implemented a new restful API using Ruby on rails

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

I managed four development teams that work on the XQ Interactive retail product suite.Achievements:• Shipped a new XQ product built on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, using Backbone JS/HTML as front end, NancyFX / C# application server and Mongo DB as our persistence store. • Introduced a lean development process based on continuous delivery that enabled our team to build new product features rapidly, create automated tests and reduce the amount of tech debt in the product.• Implemented a suite of analytic's capture and data visualization tools to help our engineers and product managers make product decisions based on user behavior.• Delivered new XQ 2.0 technology platform that enables XQ to be deployed to multiple devices such as IOS, Android and Windows based systems. • Our product now has over 2000 deployments in the field and my team was the 2012 recipient of the Microsoft ISV software partner of the year award.General Responsibilities:• As the development manager I am responsible for all staff in the XQ engineering team. I conduct regular one-on-one meetings with my engineers as well as quarterly performance reviews. I also look for opportunities to encouraging continuous learning through book clubs, organizing hackathons and finding relevant training courses and events.• It is also my responsibility to recruit new staff members and maintain adequate team resourcing based on our roadmap and development schedule.• Customer Presentations – Attending customer meetings to present on the technical elements of our product and our development process.• I am a joint owner of the XQ road map and I work with our UX lead and our business analysts to define our product roadmap based on strategy of rapid prototyping and market validation.• I am also an active software developer and I spend approximately 20-30% of my time writing code.

My day to day responsibilities include managing a cross functional team of 3 developers and 2 QA. We run an agile development methodology which means running daily stand-ups and having 2 week iterations. My role involves pairing with my developers and working closely with our QA / BA to produce high quality solutions. Achievements:• XETrade – XE.Com is the world’s largest currency exchange website and their key product offering (XETrade) was designed, built and maintained by my team. This solution had to be secure, reliable and perform well under heavy load with thousands of concurrent users.• Customer Signup CRM Project – The business requested that all new customer signups were to be managed out of MS Dynamics. We facilitated this request by creating a new workflow in Dynamics and integrating our customer signup application with the API’s in Dynamics so that customers who sign up automatically appeared in Dynamics for provisioning.• SaleForce.Com Project - The business needed more control over FX markups for customers and they wanted to manage this information out of SalesForce.Com. To deliver this project my team built integration between our application server and SaleForce.Com. We used sales force’s APIs to populate the customer information as well as FX markups. We also developed a custom SalesForce.Com App using APEX code to allow our users to set FX markups based on rules. • Mobile App project – My team designed and built a mobile interface to the SPP FX application. We built the mobile app using JQuery mobile and the ASP.MVC framework.

• Enterprise application development using agile based methodologies on the .NET platform.• Successfully managed development teams with up to 6 members.• Designed and implemented large ASP.NET applications servicing in excess of 2000 users.• Internationalized application development including time zoning and day light savings features. • Database schema design and ERD development using Enterprise Architect.• Developed custom application installers for easy application deployment.• Automated build processes and continuous integration using Cruise Control. • Conducted code reviews and mentoring of junior and intermediate developers.

Docklands, Vic, Au

• Implemented NEC’s ERP Database migration from Progress 9 to Oracle 8i. • Progress 4GL programming on HP Unix mainframe systems.• Data conversion, schema migration and UNIX shell scripting.• Oracle database administration and maintenance.• Development of disaster recovery procedures.• Designed and implementation multiple integrations between NEC ERP and third party systems using 4GL and Java message queues.• Implemented co-operative account tracking application.

Bcom, Management Of Information Systems

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science