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title: "Aparna Padmakshi Kaniyur Shankar - Engineering Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Aparna Padmakshi Kaniyur Shankar on Tal

## Headline

Engineering management \| CRM \| e\-Commerce \| Building and managing tech teams

## About

Engineering Manager with 5\+ years of experience in technical leadership and people management\. I have 18\+ years of software development experience across multiple verticals with focus on sales and service\. Experienced in gathering requirements, analyzing and converting business workflows into automated processes on the Salesforce\.com platform\. Integrated Salesforce\.com with various applications such as Doubleclick For Publishers, Netsuite, Zuora, Tax engines, and Payment processors\. Experienced in development and testing using Apex Classes, Triggers, Scheduler, Batch, Web Services\. Expertise in developing UI Components using Visualforce Pages, Visualforce components, HTML, Javascript and CSS\. Implemented automated approval processes and workflows\. Sound Knowledge on SOQL and SOSL for Querying and Searching Data for Force\.com platform\. Developed and deployed server\-side applications using technologies like Java, EJB, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, Struts, Spring, XML\. Experienced in the use of Agile methodology, Test\-Driven Development and Scrum\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

gemini

github copilot

CrewAI

Microsoft Copilot

Zapier

## Work experience

Engineering Manager at PayPal, Dec 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager at Kaplan, Apr 2022 \- Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Staff Salesforce Development Analyst at Sunrun, Jul 2020 \- Aug 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos, San Jose, California, United States, Led a team of three developers, architecting and implementing a solution to improve the quoting process for the subcontractors using experience cloud and LWC components\. Designed and implemented APIs to manage business workflows during the installation process\. Designed and implemented several integrations with the AWS platform for pricing and and contracts\.

Senior Technical Specialist \- Salesforce at Brillio, Sep 2018 \- May 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos, Santa Clara, California, Led a team of five developers\. Designed and implemented a custom solution on Salesforce Sales Cloud and Marketing Cloud platforms\. Implemented a scoring model on leads based on customer engagement\. Designed and implemented a solution for aggregating leads from marketing events and Webinars\. Integrated Sales Cloud with third party platforms including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Uberflip for lead generation and campaign management using REST APIs\. Managed client expectations and timelines\.

Senior Salesforce Developer at Roku Inc\., Apr 2015 \- May 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, Responsibilities included requirements gathering, design, development, testing, impact analysis, integration of Salesforce with other systems \(e\.g NetSuite, Blackline, Avalara, DFP\), Salesforce administration and creation and maintenance of User roles, profiles, permission sets, \. Designed, developed and deployed Apex Classes, Visualforce pages, Batch Apex, Apex Scheduler, and Apex Triggers, packages for various functional needs in the application\. Created workflow rules and process flows to create tasks, time triggered events, email alerts and field updates\. Worked in an Agile environment\.Created Microservices in Java to perform specific ETL operations for inventory and billing data\.

## Education

Master's degree, Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology

B Tech, Information Technology, Pondicherry University

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