Silicon Valley veteran software engineering leader with a wealth of experience and know how to make your Software Development bigger, better, and faster. Have held roles of progressively increased scope of management with companies such as Microsoft, Salesforce, GE Digital as well as a collection of start-ups that include two successful exits. My leadership abilities sit atop a foundation of several years of hands on engineering in the software industry, that I've continued to hone and practice throughout my management career. I'm equally happy coding as I am leading and teaching. I have a passion for doing each depending on what the current needs entail. The assets that I bring to the table are:- My broad background of job functions and product domains imparts deep insight into the expectations and needs of various disciplines and customers of the software development life cycle. - My rare blend of technical, business and people skills provides the expertise to derive the appropriate solutions to challenges, the collaborative powers to reach consensus with stakeholders, and the project management experience to drive them through to implementation. - As a disciple of Servant Leadership and Agile practices, I am driven by achieving high quality in all facets of engineering, a paradigm of continuous improvement for self and team, while remaining focused on maintaining the sensitive balance for time to market to win in competitive spaces. It's all about determining and tweaking the optimized approaches and processes to fit the team and technology, at a given time in it's evolution, in order to achieve more with less.My Specialties include:- In depth know how for producing high quality software while being responsive to market needs- Proven ability to lead teams at internet pace using a variety of agile practices- Strengths in hiring / retaining / growing local and geographically distributed, high performing teams- Highly effective bridging engineering with product, sales, ops and other parts of the business- Holistic approach to combining development with testing to get the most out of team resources- Proven successes in customer facing business development tasks- Master of delivering scalable, high availability, distributed services and microservice based architectures- Expertise in cloud, SaaS, PaaS infrastructures along with web, mobile and API based solutions- Depth in productizing data science deliveries via applied AI/machine learing driven applications