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Pooja Singhal

Seasoned Tech Leader: Scaling SaaS & Startups, Pioneering Engineering and Product Growth 🚀

Bengaluru

12+ years of work experience

Harness
Sep 20242 yrs 3 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Engineering Leader with experience leading 40+ engineers across multiple engineering teams, including managers and senior technical leaders. Directly manage 15 engineering leaders and ICs, driving organizational growth, technical strategy, execution excellence, and talent development. Own engineering delivery for a $100M+ ARR enterprise product serving 450+ global customers, balancing customer impact, platform reliability, and business outcomes.
Prophecy
Apr 20246 mosSep 2024

Prophecy
Jan 20231 yr 9 mosSep 2024

Accomplished successful delivery of a groundbreaking Low Code feature for Apache Airflow within the initial 6 months of tenure, steering the design, user experience, and architectural aspects. Presently spearheading customer enablement and onboarding initiatives for this innovative product. Leading multifaceted responsibilities across ideation, UI/UX, release management, documentation, marketing, and onboarding for various features.
Harness
Apr 20211 yr 8 mosNov 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Built the team from the ground up and managed the major revenue-earning product of Harness Which accounts for 70% of total revenue. - Scaled the team to 10+ engineers and promoted squad models in the team to manage a big team. - Delivered many time-critical and business-critical features with the team which enabled the Harness NG platform and made Migration and retention of all current customers possible.
Harness
Apr 20201 yr 1 moApr 2021

India

- Enabled many Strategic customer POVs with multiple features delivered and unblocked any customer issues found in POVs, and expansions thus unblocking deals. - Led the BE team and enabled the team to ensure the quality, scalability, and stability of the CD product which made the expansion to 200+ customers possible. - Laid out processes to ensure the quality of the product and bought the bug backlog count from 250+ to single digits in a quarter. - Led a very young and new team in achieving these goals and mentored everyone (5 members) at a time in the team
Harness
Oct 20181 yr 7 mosApr 2020

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- First Founding Member of the team in India. - Delivered many features and integrations which were the foundation for the Harness CD product. - Mentored and built the team from scratch, and enabled everyone to independently deliver features soon. - Laid the foundation of end to end automation in Harness, to reduce QA testing time and increase confidence in release
InMobi
Jul 20171 yr 4 mosOct 2018

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Working with DSP-Serving team in app-download and User acquisition business - Designed and built fast feedback data store for making user data available with latencies of 5 ms SLAs thus leading and owning many crucial features such as frequency capping, explore pacing, and user session depth - Lead the company-wide move to docker and mesos architecture for hassle-free deployments and managing production environments. - Owned the movement for all serving components to GDPR compliance
InMobi
Jun 20152 yrs 1 moJun 2017

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked with Commerce team to make e-commerce ads successful • Helped in onboarding merchants like Myntra for India and Warby Parker for USA • Played key role in driving Transaction through ads from approx ~50/day to ~5000/day • Experimented with InAdPurchase through integrating with various payment partners and merchant platforms like Shopify and Stripe.
Samsung R&D Institute
Jul 201411 mosMay 2015

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked under Multimedia group under Audio-Video solutions Team. Optimised Image processing solutions using NEON technology on ARM Cortex™-A series processors.

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Education

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

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Headline

Seasoned Tech Leader: Scaling SaaS & Startups, Pioneering Engineering and Product Growth 🚀

About

Seasoned Engineering leader with demonstrated Experience in scaling a startup from the ground up with rocket speed solving all people, business, and technical challenges which come along the way. History of working in the software Delivery industry and marketing and advertising industry. Skilled in java. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) focused in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at Harness, Sep 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Senior Engineering Leader with experience leading 40+ engineers across multiple engineering teams, including managers and senior technical leaders. Directly manage 15 engineering leaders and ICs, driving organizational growth, technical strategy, execution excellence, and talent development. Own engineering delivery for a $100M+ ARR enterprise product serving 450+ global customers, balancing customer impact, platform reliability, and business outcomes.

Senior Product Manager at Prophecy, Apr 2024 - Sep 2024 · 6 mos

Product Manager at Prophecy, Jan 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos, Accomplished successful delivery of a groundbreaking Low Code feature for Apache Airflow within the initial 6 months of tenure, steering the design, user experience, and architectural aspects. Presently spearheading customer enablement and onboarding initiatives for this innovative product. Leading multifaceted responsibilities across ideation, UI/UX, release management, documentation, marketing, and onboarding for various features.

Engineering Manager at Harness, Apr 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Built the team from the ground up and managed the major revenue-earning product of Harness Which accounts for 70% of total revenue. - Scaled the team to 10+ engineers and promoted squad models in the team to manage a big team. - Delivered many time-critical and business-critical features with the team which enabled the Harness NG platform and made Migration and retention of all current customers possible.

Staff Software Engineer at Harness, Apr 2020 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo, India, - Enabled many Strategic customer POVs with multiple features delivered and unblocked any customer issues found in POVs, and expansions thus unblocking deals. - Led the BE team and enabled the team to ensure the quality, scalability, and stability of the CD product which made the expansion to 200+ customers possible. - Laid out processes to ensure the quality of the product and bought the bug backlog count from 250+ to single digits in a quarter. - Led a very young and new team in achieving these goals and mentored everyone (5 members) at a time in the team

Senior Software Engineer at Harness, Oct 2018 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - First Founding Member of the team in India. - Delivered many features and integrations which were the foundation for the Harness CD product. - Mentored and built the team from scratch, and enabled everyone to independently deliver features soon. - Laid the foundation of end to end automation in Harness, to reduce QA testing time and increase confidence in release

Senior Software Engineer at InMobi, Jul 2017 - Oct 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Working with DSP-Serving team in app-download and User acquisition business - Designed and built fast feedback data store for making user data available with latencies of 5 ms SLAs thus leading and owning many crucial features such as frequency capping, explore pacing, and user session depth - Lead the company-wide move to docker and mesos architecture for hassle-free deployments and managing production environments. - Owned the movement for all serving components to GDPR compliance

Software Engineer at InMobi, Jun 2015 - Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Worked with Commerce team to make e-commerce ads successful • Helped in onboarding merchants like Myntra for India and Warby Parker for USA • Played key role in driving Transaction through ads from approx ~50/day to ~5000/day • Experimented with InAdPurchase through integrating with various payment partners and merchant platforms like Shopify and Stripe.

Software Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute, Jul 2014 - May 2015 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked under Multimedia group under Audio-Video solutions Team. Optimised Image processing solutions using NEON technology on ARM Cortex™-A series processors.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR