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Senior Engineering Leader | Maersk, Ex-PayPal, Ex-Goldman Sachs, Ex-Oracle

About

At PayPal, my focus revolves around spearheading technical teams to innovate and execute on cutting-edge technologies. With a robust background in software development and architecture, my leadership has been pivotal in delivering products that align with the strategic vision of the company.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at A.P. Moller - Maersk, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager 2 at PayPal, Sep 2021 - Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Responsible for managing and leading multiple agile teams of managers and developers: – Messaging & Streaming - Building low latency, high throughput messaging and streaming solutions handling over 17.5 Trillion messages on a daily basis. Used for first-party tracking, application health metrics streaming and aggregation, DB sync, application log aggregation, batch processing, risk detection and management, analytics and compliance. – Topo ICM - manages service dependencies for 3000+ microservices, for auto deploy, tracking change rollout, application decommission, build and deploy pipelines Achievements: • Scaled the streaming platform by 15x • Reduced cloud expenditure by 450,000 USD annually by re-architecting the QA platform • Facilitated PayPal’s datacenter in China, by re-architecting the messaging platform within record time, adapting to resource constraints • Executing and driving product planning and roadmap • Working with stakeholders across multiple geographies to deliver product features, framework enhancements, while aligning to Org goals and initiatives • Defined process, successfully hired, built teams in India and US • Appraisals, Performance evaluations, mentoring the team, fostering a cohesive work environment Skills: People Management, Agile Methodologies, Software Design, Data Streaming, Distributed System, Problem Solving, Strategic planning and Execution, Jira, Planview, Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, Java, Spring, Python, Terraform, Ansible, Google Cloud, NoSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, IntelliJ, Maven

Vice President at Goldman Sachs, Jan 2020 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle, Oct 2018 - Mar 2019 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Oracle BI Server (OAC): BI server is the backend processing engine for data analytics queries on Oracle Analytics Cloud / OBIEE. Skills: Java, Spring, SQL, C++

Member Of Technical Staff 3 at VMware, Oct 2013 - Aug 2018 · 4 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Skills: Java, Springboot, C++, STL, Python, Flask, Windows Installer (MSI), MySQL, MS SQL, vSphere suit, ESXi Products worked/working on: VMware SNMP Agent - is Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) allows management programs to monitor and control networked devices. The SNMP agent is included with vCenter Server, which can collect info and send traps when an alarm is triggered on vCenter Server. On ESXi hosts, it can be used to send virtual machine and environmental notifications to management systems. Vmware Update Manager - is used for upgrading / patching ESXi hosts. It reduces the downtime on ESXi machines during remediation. VMware VCenter Server - is a data center management server application to monitor virtualized environments. It provides centralized management and operation, resource provisioning and performance evaluation of virtual machines residing on a distributed virtual data center.

Software Engineer at Citrix R&D India, Nov 2010 - Jul 2013 · 2 y 8 mo, Bengaluru

Associate Software Engineer at Cordys is now OpenText, Jan 2010 - Jun 2010 · 5 mo, Coimbatore

Education

B.E, Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University

12th (CBSE), PCMB, BSP senior secondary school

Public links

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