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- Led 6 scrum teams focused on building software systems to serve Splunk's thousands of app developers- Managed 4 engineering managers, with a total of 26 engineers through 1-1's, skip levels, OKR, metrics, operational reviews- Managed 17 additional contractors in India to augment our capacity, this includes people management, budget management and roadmap planning- Nurtured strong cross functional relationships with product management, designers, stakeholders, program managers, and executives to build and execute quarterly roadmaps to deliver on the highest customer priorities to drive up NPS for developer experience- The teams standardized on Vercel for the front end, Golang & Python for development, and Kubernetes on AWS for infrastructure, with Splunk for observability and deploy to production multiple times a day- The teams own Splunkbase (marketplace for Splunk apps), AppInspect (compatibility & security scanning for apps), Developer Success (Delightful support of apps), Splunk Cloud Developer Edition (developer and test apps), Enterprise SDK (Python, JS, Java standards to build apps), Cloud App Vetting (manual inspection of source code for security and cloud compatibility) and developer portal (documentation for apps)

- Led scrum team of 6 full stack engineers to build highly available web service and Python library to validate Splunk Apps for security and compatibility. (AppInspect). Also led effort to rebuilt internal workflow tool in React, Python and Postgres on top of Vercel, AWS and Kubernetes.- Led 15 contractors in India to manually vet and validate the source code of apps. Partnering with the technical product manager and developer success teams to drive down the backlog from thousands to under 100 and decrease SLA from weeks to days.

- Recruited and built a highly engaged, effective team of full-stack engineers, TPM, Sr. Manager of technical writing, and product managers to deliver services and tools for over 2,000 engineers- Rebuilt GO URL Shortener with React and enhanced our NPS score to 81 with over 70% adoption across the company- Built the first-ever developer portal in the company using OSS backstage.io to be the single place to find people, teams, services, send kudos, and documentation- Built POC’s for federated search, cycle time measurement, distributed compilation, windows automation, hackathon, and various tools to enhance productivity and remove manual toil- Coached team members through regular 1-on-1’s to support and enable them to do their best work.- Created the vision, mission and managed the prioritized backlog aligning with the company OKRs- Collaborated with executives, stakeholders, engineers, manager, TPM, PM to align our team to the business goals- Formally mentored over 12 people at Splunk in engineering roles and non-engineering roles

- Trained over 2,000 newly hired engineers with our Bootcamp receiving 50 Net Promoter core- Created a proof of concept and drove standardized CI tooling at Splunk- POC and launched productivity tools such as GO URL Shortener, Hands-on Workshop learning platform, Cycle Time application order to measure and reduce manual work for all engineers- Created the first-ever engineering handbook to enable thousands of engineers to collaborate asynchronously- Led a team of 40 executives, managers, engineers to coordinate three successful fully remote Hackathons resulting in 200 hack demos, 20+ shipped hacks, 10+ patentable ideas, and 60 NPS scores, with 90% of participants wanting to participate again- Founded the ‘Engineering Productivity’ function at Splunk to focus on onboarding, technical talks, community, Voice of the Customer, internal technical writing, and tools- Part of the mentoring working group for Womxn In Tech ERG, helped founded the Womxn in Engineering sub-ERG, leading a Chinese @ Splunk ERG proposal

- Led a team to design and deliver a solution to reduce technical debt for 130 Yahoo websites, leading to 300 engineers being to ship software multiple times a day- Launched a technical mentoring program leading to 40 engineers reaching a peer-recognized expert level- Led a tiger team to shift 900 engineers to continuous delivery for over 150 pipelines from their previous manual release processes- POC Github Enterprise to shift the company from SVN to Git- Evangelized automated UI testing using Saucelabs for the entire company

- Created a new team to focus on developer productivity, community, and happiness- Built a continuous delivery pipeline for all Node.js software for over 200 repositories- Spearheaded the first coding standards for C++, Java, and Javascript- Led the effort for the first company-wide bug cleansing day resulting in a 30% stale ticket reduction

- Designed and built the #1 news website in the world, sustaining the most significant news day in US history, 9/11- Technical lead and mentor for a team of 30 engineers to deliver news based products to sustain the most demanding and diverse content needs of the industry- Hands-on coding and leading teams to deliver Yahoo Weather data to the first iPhone and rearchitected the system to withstand billions of requests a day- Collaborated with the general managers, advertising delivery teams, product managers, designers, editors, and external content partners (New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, and 50+ newspapers) to produce and deliver timely and engaging Yahoo news content for 100+ million users.

- Built the backend for Silicon Graphics’s first customer support portal known as Supportfolio- Was the developer for X11 UI software written in C installed on every new workstation to collect customer registration and software inventory- Led a team to build and support the internal call tracking system, train all US offices- Developed tooling to scale Sybase backup, recovery, pruning, replication, and tuning SQL