Karen Dsouza

About

Experienced engineering leader currently heading the Billing Platform team at Plaid. Formerly led the Data Engineering and Analytics Platform team, driving initiatives across data and platform scalability. Over a decade of experience as a backend engineer, with a strong track record in building large-scale search systems, APIs, and distributed cloud-native architectures. Technical Focus Areas: Distributed Systems, Search (Solr), Java, Data Platform, Cloud Infrastructure, API Development

Experience

• Engineering Manager at Plaid
  Sep 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Technical Lead at Zillow
  Jan 2019 - Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Senior Search Engineer at Trulia (acquired by Zillow)
  May 2017 - Jan 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Sr Software Engineer at Illumina
  Jul 2013 - Apr 2017 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  Working extensively with SOLR to provide better and faster searching/filtering mechanism for ontology patients.

• Lab Instructor/TA/Grader at Northeastern University
  Jan 2013 - May 2013 · 5 mos

  Conducted labs, graded quizzes and assisted Prof. Brian Sullivan (Age of Empires fame) Undergrad course: Games & Society