* Manage 30+ engineers, including leads, in a remote setup* Manage career aspirations and up-leveling of skills* Provide technical direction and advice* Setup processes for collaboration, knowledge sharing and development* Budget, Infrastructure resources and Roadmap planning

Funding startups Funding VC funds

Sourcing startupsSourcing and matching investors based on their thesesAdvising startups

* Due diligence on biotech startups* Assessing financial and business models

Migrating code from legacy Clojure to GolangArchitecting APIs and new servicesMentoring engineersTech stack: Clojure, Go, Kubernetes, Cassandra

* Advising early stage co-founders on fundraising, technology, hiring* Offering due diligence service to VCs, consultant networks* Market sizing, segmentation, partner scouting* Designing and Building software products* Software project management, internal tools and consulting

Member of Portfolia Funds, investment funds designed for women who want to back entrepreneurial companies for returns and impact.Investing in up to 10 top-performing entrepreneurial companies in one fund. Currently the fund that I am a part of works with companies falling under the Food or Agtech category.Participating in pitch calls and joining due diligence teams alongside highly experienced lead investors. (Portfolia is especially interested in companies led by women and/or with diverse founder teams, and where a national base of sophisticated and connected investors can impact success. Reach out to me for more info.)

Define and execute a technology roadmap that aligns with the strategic goalsLead and manage a team of engineers, ensuring high productivity and engagementSet clear goals and expectations, provide feedback, and foster professional development and growthManage and coordinate with external vendors and third-party service providers to ensure they meet their contractual obligationsOversee testing and quality assurance processes to ensure the final products are reliable and secureOptimize spending on technology solutions and vendor contracts to achieve cost efficiencyMaintain regular communication with the executive team and key stakeholders to keep them informed of progress, challenges, and changes in the technology landscape

Leading a teamMentoring engineers, 1:1s with engineersPlanning, estimating resources for projects and communicating with Engg leadershipRoadmap planning, scrum ceremoniesMitigating risks in delivery/customer deadlines, prioritizing effortsMentoring individual engineers in systems design, database design, API designDesign and development of backend systems in Java, GraphQL, Postgres, KubernetesDeveloping APIs, Queues (Processors), Failure handling and reconciliation systemsDevelopment of frontend systems in Angular

Trust and Safety Team - Led software engg projectsBuilding microservices to improve and augment the user abuse report systemsCarving out legacy code base into Microservies to fix/augment systems comprising user safety systemsWorking on services in Python that leverage Machine Learning based modelsTech stack - Go, DynamoDB, C#, .NET, Windows, PythonInfrastructure Org - Lead EngineerTooling - Graphql + Golang infrastructure high visibility project reporting to VP Engg.Designing, Architecting and Developing a service that is based on GraphQL but with multiple datasources of different kinds (in Golang)Working on gRPC, REST and Golang based API platform - IaaSMentoring individuals - SRE, Ops and DevelopersImproving SRE efficiency through automation and tools, often working with open source codeWorked with and on open source projects like Consul (Hashicorp) and PortworxWorked on operational issues of Portworx deployment through Nomad and HashistackMaintained and improved in-house slackbot that performed infrastructure operationsWorked on customization of WSO2's functionality where needed using Java, Maven

Automation of tests, automation framework using GolangCritical fixes to automation, optimizing run-times, network calls, method callsDeveloped parallel framework to test longevity-with-chaos - configurableDeveloped an open-source testing framework to test scheduler workflows with Portworx productDeploying and testing Docker containers, Kubernetes for testingEvaluating performance of containerized Cassandra deployments under different deployment modelsWorking on Storage layer, persistent storage for containerized applications, data services

Automation of tests, code reviews, tooling for customers – Python, ShellEstimating resources for tests, generating and managing software buildsNoSQL - Cassandra, MongoDB - Data Modeling, Administration of test clustersObtained Cassandra Architect CertificationRecommending and laying down best practices for product's Software Quality Assurance

Automating regression testsDesigning and implementing a new architecture of automated test frameworkSuggesting best QA practices and documenting the same for reviewDocumenting common implicit knowledge for easy use by new members

Test planningTechnical liaison to vendor teams, Assigning tasks, Shuffling tasksMonitoring progress reportsAutomation of test cases using Perl and C#Re-architecture the Lotus Notes automation hierarchyTesting WAN optimization features for wide range of application layer protocols

Taught High School Algebra to low scoring kids.

Worked as a Software developer in the J2EE technologyDeveloped gateways between Applications and DBs using the OpenEAI technologyWork involved design of XMLs and DTDs, usage of MySQL and Java technologiesDeveloped, documented and tested 'Email Application' for University of IllinoisMy work was used in Emory University

Carried out performance tests on end-to-end IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) based VoIP systemWorked on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based systemReviewed performance related requirements, planned, designed and executed testsWrote automation scripts for sanity and regression tests using Shell, Perl programmingTrained new recruits on the IMS concepts and SIPp tool

Worked on projects using C, Java, J2EETrained new joiners on a client product (Clipper)