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Tonbridge, Gb

Tonbridge, Gb

Blackfriars, England, Gb

Accountable for defining and delivering vision and strategy of Grocery, Retail and other emerging verticals. The organisation is 90 engineers and leaders split between 4 geographies (UK, India, USA and Poland) and is directly responsible for about 20% of company GTV. Leading development of technologies that enable business growth and expansion into new markets and business models. Led Retail launch and drove cultural change to focus on global optimisation by shifting the investment into “horizontal infrastructure” groups.

Blackfriars, England, Gb

Led Fraud and Abuse and Customer Care domains in collaboration with cross functional leads from Product, Data Science, Machine Learning and Operations. Directly responsible for the “Care and Trust” engineering group consisting of 5 teams (45 strong) in 3 geographies (UK, Poland and India). Grew and developed the group as a mature, autonomous, empowered, motivated and highly performing organisation. Extended Care across all 3 sides of the marketplace (consumers, riders and partners) and grew self-service to be 75% of the total contacts volume. Created Fraud and Abuse (Trust) as a dedicated domain in Deliveroo. Owned all aspects of relationships with a number of third party partner companies.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Responsible for the new customers on-boarding program, cross-cutting multiple teams and feeding directly into company level objectives. Established predictable delivery culture and processes in infrastructure, and vertical features teams. Developed and drove vision of significant simplification of the infrastructure architecture and elimination of technical debt. Promoted culture of learning in Geo Product Area by championing process and teaching classes in effective retrospective. Led successful landing of multiple projects delivered by virtual cross-functional teams located in India, UK and US.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Responsible for capacity planning and delivery for over 30% of Google Cloud Platform resources. Drove cost reduction through focus on efficiency and responsible overallocation. Managed productization of App Engine Flexible Environment. Trailblazed Google Compute Engine turnup in the first production minicluster (Japan). Resolved capacity crisis for legacy service fueling Google APIs and managed migration to the next gen. Was oncall for GCE with ≤5 minutes response time.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Owned post-launch maintenance and support of Intel wireless products, delivered to the global PC market as part of all major OEM/ODM platforms. Ran program across boundaries of R&D, Operations, Marketing and Finance organizations. Was responsible for holistic, product-wide focus, including HW (Si, Module), SW (uCode, Driver, App) components and System (behavior, performance) aspects. In order to improve responsiveness and reduce the load on the development teams, built and led tier 2 technical support team in Taipei, Taiwan.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Group management of four teams, owning Power, Optimization and Thermal tools and technologies, used by the majority of Intel projects. Responsible for defining vision, strategy and roadmap, negotiating requirements and schedules with the customers, coordinating development dependencies and priorities balance within the group and with the rest of the organization, and all aspects of people management and career development. Led strategic initiatives for extending the group offerings to the new market of Intel SoC, and promoting Power and Thermal activities to higher levels of abstraction. Led research and development of new technologies and maintained and extended strategic leadership in the existing areas of expertise. Co-chaired divisional working group driving adoption of best SW practices and processes. Was responsible for site level career development classes and coaching sessions.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Technical and people management of cross site (Santa Clara, CA and Hillsboro, OR) team, owning Intel proprietary Circuit Simulation Environment used by over 1200 distinct users in dozens of projects across Intel. Built the team and accomplished the technology transfer from Israel to the US. Under my leadership the team reached a number of important objectives including major re-architecture of Simulation and Analog Mixed Signal flows, new process technology ramp-up, and number of design wins.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Drove definition of Intel next generation unified VLSI CAD infrastructure. Defined the requirements and reviewed internal and external solutions. Contributed as a member of Si2 “Open Modeling Coalition Joint Data Model” industry working group. Evaluated Open Access – de-facto industry standard VLSI CAD data model of the time. Compared features, performance and capacity to number of internal solutions. Defined the architecture and technically led the development of Intel proprietary Parasitics Data Model emulation layer on top of Open Access API.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Advocated the need for Intel proprietary Parasitics representation infrastructure, and, later on, built and lad a team owning it. Under my leadership, the infrastructure was defined, developed from scratch and integrated with majority of Intel CAD tools. Job responsibilities included product roadmap definition, people management, project management, technical leadership, and customers interaction.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Was responsible for establishing R&D site in Moscow, Russia. Job duties included interviewing, hiring, new employees’ ramp up and integration, local teams building, technology transfer and growing local management. Built and remotely led (second line) two teams and managed smooth technology transfer in Parasitics Infrastructure, Circuit Analysis and Electrical Rules Check domains. Built strong and vital local organization with well defined objectives, vision and roadmap, and solid execution plans.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Took part in development and maintenance of Intel VLSI CAD tools. Tool owner of Parasitics manipulation tools and cell characterization information Data Base.

Worked in a dynamic start-up environment and was responsible for definition, design, implementation and maintenance of number of software projects in context of Medical Imaging System. Including, but not limited to: real time proprietary HW control, Data Base with CD archiving mechanism, SW Image Processing module, real time CoDec manager, SW Installation packages, and Man-Machine interface featuring both Windowed GUI and hardware input devices (touch screen, encoders, etc.).

Mba, Executive

Ba, Computer Science

Master, Applied Math

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