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Director of Engineering

Zwift

Role: Manager of managers of Mobile, Web and Game teams focusing on cross-platform solutions.
Environment: MicroServices, React, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, iOS/Android, C++, Git, Jenkins, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, Server-Driven UI
Responsibilities:
●	Provided Engineering oversight to multiple cross-discipline teams including Game/Mobile/Web/Backend, growing the org to more than double its size.
●	Accountable for planning & managing Engineering budget, staffing, hiring, mentoring & performance management for teams comprising of junior to Staff+ engineers & managers.
●	Defined performance metrics and reports on the engineering functions’ progress against team specific goals.
●	Partnered with Product, QA & DevOps liaisons in making sure we can provide state-of-the-art features while focusing on various Engineering initiatives (OKRs) to scale & support our applications to the next level.
●	Collaborated with HR, Recruiting & DEIB teams on various improvements like building a metric driven Performance Review process, standardizing Interview question banks and hosting the 1st ever Hackathon across the company.
●	Introduced and landed significant tech/process improvements (Post Mortems, Feature Flags, UI Middleware, Crash Monitoring, Instrumentation + Alerting).
●	Championed R&D projects like Server-Driven UI development to fast pace Mobile + Web development and AWS OpsWorks to Kubernetes migration to allow for vendor agnostic, scalable and cost-effective CI/CD solutions.

Director Of Engineering

CDK Global

Role: Engineering lead for four full stack teams partnering with respective state DMVs.
Environment: Visual Studio 2017, .Net Framework 4.5/Core, C#, SOA, WebApi, Angular 2, SignalR, MongoDB, SQL Server, Git, Stash, Bamboo, Docker, Cloud, AWS, Agile Development.
Responsibilities:
●	Used Full Agile methodology for all development efforts. (Sprint Planning, Scrums/ Daily Stand-ups, story grooming) 
●	Continuous involvement with Strategy, Planning, Implementation, Deployment and day-to-day Operational Management. 
●	Responsible for development budget and staff planning for every quarter/fiscal year.
●	Acted as the Security officer for the development teams, assisting with SOC and other State related Audits mandated by State DMVs. 
●	Direct involvement with growing the team, creating development standards and processes.
●	Managed onsite and offshore development teams. Work with other teams to ensure quality products are delivered (Product owners, TechOps, DB, Sales, Marketing, Clients, etc).
●	Led 4 different teams of development (onsite and offshore) and mentor 8 direct reports including 2 managers.

Senior Manager, Development R&D

Green Dot Corporation

Green Dot Corp is a leader in providing Prepaid cards through retail or web channels. Worked on various systems redesigning them from grounds up to handle the growing load and speed demands of the company.

Responsibilities:
•	Overseeing architecture, mentoring the growth of team, and perform periodic code review with team members to ensure code quality.
•	Responsible for framework design, and enterprise level architecture, architecture approach on various enterprise solutions. 
•	Manage offshore development team.
•	Designing, implementation and management of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
•	Define the service layer for communication with external partners and internal applications.
•	Design and architect core component of the companies, ensure performance and scalability of each component (Memory usage, CPU utilization, stability, reusability, flexibility).
•	Designed and implemented the Customer Notification system which provides real-time alerts to customers based on events. This system can send alerts to Email/SMS/Facebook/Push Notifications to Mobile devices, etc.
•	Designed and developed a new uniform GDN system that interacts with other prepaid cards to reload using MoneyPak or cash/check at retail locations (swipe reload). 
•	For all the above projects lead the teams from sizes of 5 – 15 developers (onsite and offshore) to enhance & maintain these systems using offshore and onsite resources.
•	Built a proof of concept (POC) for migrating SSIS Packages to Hadoop technology for batch jobs.

Manager, Software Development

Myspace

•	Lead the team in designing custom features for huge advertisers like Target, McDonald, etc constantly bringing in revenue for the company. These features once developed could be easily configured to use for other advertisers without modifying the code.
•	Enhancing the internal web admin application ‘Campaign Manager’ that uses Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) technology, which offers a manageable approach to distributed computing, broad interoperability, and direct support for service orientation.
•	Lead the team on designing and implementing the FIM Press site with SharePoint as the back-end and ASP.NET 2.0 front end. 
•	Developed Workflow (SPWF) in Visual Studio using .Net 3.5 framework to handle caching issues for the FIM Press site.

Sr .Net Developer

Sallie Mae

•	Worked in the Loan Accounting System project, that implements Remoting and Fowler’s Domain model. Provided maintenance, defects fixing, enhancements, upgrades and production support.
•	Worked with integrating 3rd party controls like Component One.
•	Handled Out of Memory issue with LAS as it loads a lot of data in cache.
•	Designed and developed the web based front-end for Loan Selection Tool project using ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2005.
•	Lead a team of 3-4 contractors to implement and test the Loan Selection Tool project that was built in a very tight schedule.
•	Provided builds for projects using nAnt and MsBuild scripts for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 projects respectively.

Sr Systems Analyst

Independence Airlines

•	Designed and developed Web Services to be used by Pilots and Crew Members like getting weather related information, tracking status of flights and crew members.
•	Implemented various enhancements in the e-commerce website of the company www.FLYI.com like Gift Cards, UATP Credit Card encryptions, etc.
•	Worked on various Windows Services like getting messages from Volpe through sockets, gathering information about computers and saving them in Active Directory, parsing error messages from Event Logs of all critical servers and adding them in Databases.
•	Designed and developed the company’s Employee Review intranet webpage including the database. All the employees of the company could do a self-review which would then go through the process of review by manager and lastly approval by VP.
•	Mentor junior programmers as a technical lead.

Teleformix LLC

About the Project: ECHO Explorer is a digital voice recorder that records, stores and plays digitized phone calls for verification and QA. It communicates with the existing Java classes to show the actual system, Proxies have been written to communicate between Java and .NET framework.
Responsibilities:
•	Designed and implemented a dynamic desktop application in a Windows .NET environment C# language, that can interact with Java classes and Informix database in a Unix environment though proxies. The front end of the application was developed using XML files, so that the look and feel of the application can be dynamic and changed on the fly. 
•	Real-time monitoring of calls was achieved using multi-threading and Timers in the application.

Software Engineer

3Com

Voice over IP over Cable based on DOCSIS 1.1 (VoIP over Cable on CMTS)
Environment: C on UNIX, SNMP, Real time System, ClearCase, Exceed.
Responsibilities:
•	Registration of the Cable Modems with the CMTS. Designed and implemented the new features related with DOCSIS1.1 Registration at the UMC end. 
•	Management of Service Flows needed for VoIP and other data packets like Best Effort and Unsolicited Grant Service.

Sr Software Engineer

Hughes Software Systems Limited

R2 Protocol Development using GlobalCall PDK for Dialogic, NJ USA.
Environment : Windows NT 4.0, Cinderella SDL 1.0, GlobalCall PDKRT, ActivePerl, Visual C++ 5.0.
Responsibilities:
- Designed the Protocol using Cinderella SDL 1.0
- Executed and tested the Protocol using GlobalCall PDKRT.
- Generated Reports specifying Tested Scenarios corresponding to the various test cases using Perl Scripts.

Empathetic Technology leader with over two decades of experience delivering capabilities to keep organizations on the forefront of technology. 
●	Expertise in building large fault tolerant and scalable cross-platform Enterprise solutions while managing large onshore/offshore teams.
●	Goals-driven Engineering leader responsible for strategic planning and roadmap building across distributed teams worldwide. 
●	Highly proficient communicator effective at managing relationships between strategic leadership, third-party vendors, and clients.

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