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Kirkland, WA, US

Greater Seattle Area

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Led product vision and strategy for the overall AWS Platform Analytics.
• Improved user engagement and reduced friction at key customer touchpoints on the AWS platform by redefining the behavioral and performance analytics strategy, covering 250+ service consoles and properties like AWS Docs.

Redwood Shores, CA, US

• Led a large cross-functional program to enable data sovereignty by driving the scaling of the Reltio cloud footprint to regions such as China and India.
• Led a complex program that achieved four 9's of system availability by scaling the Reltio product footprint on AWS, expanding to GCP and Azure, and driving multi-region HA for the multi-dimensional MDM SaaS company

Seattle, WA, US

• Led a large cross-functional team that built a scalable ML platform to consolidate data, evolved dev frameworks & tools, and built platform components to support production ML at scale.
• Improved deployment velocity by 4X by rebuilding ML developer experience, CI/CD pipeline, and infrastructure life cycle management mechanisms to reliably manage engineering and production of ML workloads.
• Reduced cost to serve by 3X by building out Expedia Group’s core enterprise risk platform on the AWS cloud and migrating group companies' (e.g. VRBO) use cases for detecting & preventing various forms of fraud.

San Jose, CA, US

• Led large, cross-functional teams of 40+ people to deliver key cloud initiatives, driving products from concept to launch through strategic vision and identifying key opportunities & business drivers.
• Built a real-time big data platform that enabled real-time analytics on billions of events/sec & 100’s of TBs/day driving $300M in annual incremental revenue delivering actionable insights across several use cases.
• Built a new relational analytics platform and migrated 80% of eBay’s analytics workloads from Teradata. Saved millions in infra & licensing costs while minimizing developer friction by auto-migrating 5K+ analytics apps.
• Rebuilt eBay’s behavioral data & mobile analytics platform and data pipelines, with real-time ingestion & analytics capabilities to handle petabyte-scale click-stream data.
• Accelerated core processes by removing latencies and unlocked business value through stream processing that enhanced data quality, extensibility, and availability at reduced TCO.
• Other key 0-1 products: A real-time security event management & intrusion detection platform (1M events/sec), Distributed Caching & Database as a Service (scalable in-memory caching & DB clusters on eBay's cloud), etc.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Conceptualized, drove and shipped features that improved relevance and effectiveness of Bing ads, reduced cost to serve, and improved agility.
• Designed and shipped features that improved monetization in key relevance areas such as click prediction, query expansions, entity/category detection, etc.
• Owned the A/B testing platform for online ads experimentation. Shipped features that improved stability and agility of live market experimentation, and reduced errors.
• Yahoo->Bing Search Integration: Drove Autopilot™ migration for ads relevance systems for Yahoo search traffic migration over to Bing. Led redesigning of services for Autopilot, created and executed strategy for ramping.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Led global engineering teams to ship large scale enterprise solutions and distributed systems.
• Owned engineering of key products across several customers of HP.
• Built & fostered partnerships, developed, coached, and successfully guided the teams to handle large portfolios.
• Improved productivity by implementing a scalable and repeatable agile/scrum-based dev methodology.
• Core technology focus areas included.NET, C#, Java, SQL & Oracle technology stack, BI & Analytics.
• Led teams to deliver EDW & analytics products, digital media products, video service delivery platform, ERP systems, MES systems, tech/data migrations, etc. for varied enterprise customers.

Masters Diploma, Computer Science

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