San Francisco, California, United States
With over 12+ years of working in software, I have been part of some incredible companies in fintech, health and banking. In this journey I have played roles from being an engineer to technical team lead, to managing multiple teams of software engineers. My last 10 years have been focussed on fintech and I am really proud of building tools and services to help people take control of their finances and achieve their financial dreams. In my experience I have built: - Platform services and frameworks for data retrieval, targeting, rendering and tracking to enable product teams build, launch and iterate over their products with high velocity and efficiency. - High volume and super fast credit data pipelines to allow verticals launch products to help users make financial progress. - Next generation notifications platform to drive user engagement. In this journey, I got the opportunity to collaborate with amazing engineers, mentors, technical experts and highly effective teams - which became a guiding force for me to switch from being an IC to an engineering manager. Finding the balance between people, process and technology, creating high output teams, bringing in operational excellence for critical services, cross org collaboration to align on one goal and helping people grow in their career is now my passion.
- Managing two core systems teams responsible for building standard capabilities and framework for data persistence & retrieval, user targeting, rendering and tracking with the intent to help product verticals stay focussed on what matters most to them - building customer facing features with high velocity and customizability. - Building this framework requires cross team collaboration with multiple product and engineering teams across the company to ensure we are building capabilities to solve right problems at the right time. - I am heavily involved in strategic planning, roadmapping and driving alignment with multiple teams to technical reviews on design and architecture.
- Responsible for building a platform for helping various verticals launch their product experiences faster using a standard services and orchestration layer and leading operational excellence program for tier 0 horizontal team. - Managed core credit engineering team responsible for integrating with Credit Karma's bureau partners Transunion, Equifax and Experian. Partnered with external stakeholders to launch project Lightspeed which aimed to fundamentally change the way credit data is ingested and utilized at Credit Karma. This shift allowed our product and machine learning teams to have access to enriched credit data quicker leading to better recommendations and approval odds for various financial offers. - Led teams of various sizes from 2 engineers to 11 engineers, working in different timezones. - Heavily involved in people management, setting up project/team roadmaps/strategies, leadership comms, process evolution, team building, hiring and cross team collaboration.
- Worked on splitting monolithic codebase into microservices in scala and php to enable independent deploys and ownership of the code. - Worked on batch data pipelines for async credit data pull from credit bureaus, enabling Credit Karma to have always fresh financial data for our members. This data is extensively used to enable financial progress and well being for our members.
- As part of Electronic Data Interchange team at EPIC, I was responsible for integrating information flow between multiple systems and EPIC to automate and enhance the use of electronic medical records. - Involved in extensive software development and problem solving on technologies like InterSystems Cache, SQL and M. - The role involved customer interaction and planning and involvement in complete SDLC required for end to end ownership and successful implementation of software affecting huge population.
Responsible for development of products under CCPS studies on technologies like C++, SQL server for reporting on various financial firms exploiting the current credit information and trends.
Teaching Assistant for the course “Programming Languages: C++".