Leading the R&D engineering organization at BloomreachLead development and refinement of highly relevant, large scale, low latency search product using a variety of methods including machine learning, NLP, horizontally scalable delivery via SaaSLaunched content management SaaS with a commerce focus.Unified the engineering organization and processes after major acquisitions.Increased engineering delivery of business value from 30% to over 80%.Built strategic partnerships on AI with Intel AI Builders, and NVIDIA Inception program.

Increased the scalability of Medallia’s infrastructure by tenfold.Transformed Medallia’s entire cloud infrastructure from static VMs to a scalable compute and storage cluster using containers.Established infrastructure as code with immutability for fully automated data center deployments.Unified colo public cloud and Govcloud infrastructure for application abstractionsEnabled the engineering organization for the development of microservices with frameworks and methodology.Brought in and managed open source technologies: Kafka, Elastic Search, Redis, and Spark as shared services for Medallia applications

Led the development and operations of Geforce Now from product inception to launch at GDC in 2015 on Shield platforms.Led the team that designed system specs, software, microservices, every aspect of GeforceNow and deployed Geforce now into multiple datacenters and on AWS.https://www.pcmag.com/review/351355/nvidia-geforce-nowOversaw software infrastructure, operations and release planning to maximize engineering productivity across Tegra, Geforce, Quadro, Tesla SW engineering teams.Managed Nvidia's web properties: design and engineering team.

Sr Director, GRID EngineeringLed the development of Nvidia GRID for gaming platform: "Nvidia's 1st fully integrated system" from concept to launch. (Geforce Now)Launched GRID beta cloud gaming service on Android platformLed the research and development of GRID VCA, the world's "first visual computing appliance" from concept to launch: http://www.nvidia.com/object/visual-computing-appliance.htmlDeveloped from concept to launch; the GRID Test drive service running on amazon. Review here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8042/nvidia-grid-update-nvidia-launches-grid-test-drive-for-vdi-desktops

Director of Planning, Infrastructure and Operations. Mobile & GPU SW organizations.Transitioned a software organization of > 1k to a RERO development and release model. Decreasing time to market from up to a year down to 6 weeks Allowed the organization to deliver more value, better reliability, have predictable schedules.Managed and improved performance of mission-critical, continuous integration systems that runs over 1m jobs per month.Led and influenced a culture of test-driven development within the broader SW organization.Turnaround success story: took the job to turnaround a problematic organization to great success. Reinvigorated the team, and rebuilt customer relationships.Led the development of application workflow solutions to improve productivity and change control in softwareManaged enterprise-class continuous automated regression system and servicing 1k SW developers.Defined optimal configuration model/policy for the SW organizationLed a global team spanning Texas, Washington, California, North Carolina, and Pune/India Built a strong leadership team within my organization. Set direction and vision for the organization to focus on key areas of value. Built organizational architecture that facilitates ownership and responsibilityDefined key objectives for team based on company strategy Maintained operational excellence through extensive metrics and KPI monitoring.Established cross functional team to evaluate state of the art SW development tools

Led the development and delivery PureVideo / PureVideo HD software features working on the Geforce product lines.Worked with marketing and developed consumer compute applications/software adoption.Add support of video functionality for the Geforce FX->Geforce 8x family of GPUs, on XP/Vista operating systemsWorked closely with Microsoft to pioneer and define industry standard h264 decode DXVA HW acceleration interface on Windows.Managed a globally distributed development team across 3 time zones.Developed leaders and managers within the team.

Managed the video Capture group.Productize Personal Cinema and other VIVO capture boards.Worked closely with Microsoft media center edition group to define and deliver Nvidia capture integrated products compatible with MCE.Led the development of Nvidia's Avstream driver stack.Led the development of Geforce MPEG2 encoder / Motion Estimation Driver projectsFacilitated communication with marketing and hw board designers, review , scheduling, planning.

SW Development work - DXVA MPEG2 decodeDeveloped / Debug Overlay, and display drivers using DX interfacesDebug capture driversWorked on Nstantmedia Decoder and app infrastructure

Worked on features for video like mirroring for Mac OSDebugged video drivers under windows

Built workflow infrastructure using vbscriptApplication and UI design

Feature and bug fixing for localization developmentWorked mainly on CorelDraw 8 coding in C/C++Bug database tool development