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Driving Data & AI Governance at Scale @Meta | Former Head of Payments, Billing, Safety & Insurance @Uber

About

Technology & Business Executive with over 22 years of industry experience. Proven track record of growing small teams into mature scalable, multi-tiered organizations that are poised to deliver high quality products and large scale platforms. Best in fast-paced, dynamic, highly iterative / innovative environments. Experienced in balancing these disciplines while fostering a people-first culture and forming solid grounds for cross-functional relationships to enable effective collaboration between technical and business organizations. Crisp knowledge of software architecture and development, combined with profound understanding of strategic markets and competitive landscape. Clear understanding of customer pain-point, prudent decision-making around technical and functional aspects of products, agile execution, passionate teams that are well-aligned on the goals and fail-fast dynamic development is the key to launching long-lasting products.

Location

United States

Work experience

Senior Director, AI and Data Infrastructure at Facebook, Feb 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 5 mos, Menlo Park, CA, Focused on building and scaling AI-driven systems and orgs that deliver real-world impact. Turning frontier technology into reliable products, accelerating decision-making with strong engineering fundamentals, and developing leaders who raise the bar. Energized by work at the intersection of product, infrastructure, and applied AI—where reliability, velocity, and responsible decision-making all matter at scale Accelerating strategy. to execution: aligning across functions, making hard tradeoffs with incomplete data, and shipping meaningful improvements at scale.

Advisory Board Member at Women Who Code, Sep 2014 - Present · 11 yrs 10 mos, San Francisco Bay Area

Head of Payments/Billing/Risk/Trust/Safety Infrastructure at Uber, 2015 - 2020 · 5 yrs, San Francisco Bay Area, Built the business infrastructure to support Uber's hypergrowth in various geographies. Scaled it further to support eats, freight, new modalities along with the core rides business. Built the engineering organization of 600 talented engineers and directors across 5 countries to accelerate engineering efforts below: Mid 2015 - Helped with Uber's Python monolith midtier, carving out a set of shared services to unblock product delivery. Ensured continuous availability through active-active architecture. 2016 - Bootstrapped next generation platform for payments, fraud, revenue, billing services to increase platform extensibility. This rewrite was critical to extend support for new businesses, eats and freight. The new architecture leveraged cloud technologies and ushered us into building hybrid data center strategies. These rewrites over the next two years would also seed the machine learning platform in adjacent teams, helping data scientists increase model development and training velocity. On the languages front, it enabled us to move to java/go stack to support orders of magnitude higher RPS, without linear increase in hardware costs. 2017 -Prioritizing API First culture with the help of a group of highly talented snr engineers. The key goal was to increase developer velocity. Started hadoop based data warehousing efforts for generating financial metrics. In parallel, started the data driven mobile platform efforts to accelerate delivery of payment features on IOS and Android devices. Identified the need to build Uber's first knowledge graph for integrated user identity. 2018 - Launched Uber's first knowledge graph with the help of senior engineers. Successfully rolled out the platform rewrites. Built services for financial data integrity. These launches were time sensitive due to upcoming IPO 2019 - Uber went public. Focusing now on building advanced analytics and ml driven services to derive business insights with a restructured organization of 200.

VP Engineering at Box, Dec 2013 - Jul 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos, Los Altos, CA, Built content management products focusing on user engagement and retention metrics. Worked with some of the most talented engineers and managers, leading a team of 80 people to lead following efforts: 2014 - GA'ed the content editing service on the Box Platform using MySql, HBase, Node.js technologies. Launched mobile app for the same. Folded acquisition and internal development efforts to create advanced content viewing experiences on the Box Platform. Led compliance and governance of our mobile and web applications. Helped with IPO readiness efforts. 2015 - Box went public. Led scalability efforts for the PHP based web services to expand Box's reach into the enterprises.

Senior Director, Engineering at VMware, Aug 2007 - Dec 2013 · 6 yrs 5 mos, Palo Alto, Spent 6 years at VMware, leading engineering organization of highly talented engineers, senior managers and engineering directors across 3 GEO's to implement VMware's game-changing strategy for Application Management (DevOps, PaaS and DBaaS) and Hybrid Cloud Management. Conceptualized and delivered products for new markets through organic build-outs and M&A activities, collaborating on go-to-market strategy, keeping into consideration constantly changing competitive landscape. Folded several acquisitions to accelerate prominent areas of growth and reduce time to market. Aligned different teams to come together towards attaining well-established goals and executing on a corporate strategy that helps VMware make great strides in Hybrid Cloud Management. Followed a hands-on management style working closely with the teams to define architecture, technology stack, features and services. Technically proficient with Rest, Spring AMQP, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, RabbitMQ, SQL/noSQL datastores and Chef/Puppet/Zookeeper technologies. Clear understanding of cloud technologies including open source efforts around Openstack, DeltaCloud, jCloud, Asgard and hybrid cloud platforms - vCloud, AWS services. Deep passion to fuse technology and business. Innate proficiency in making sound judgement to deliver minimally awesome products on time.