San Francisco Bay Area
Innovative, hands-on technical engineering leader with a proven track record leading design, development and program management of high technology products that drive revenue and market share. Demonstrated ability to motivate and lead multiple projects and teams of SW, HW and QA engineers spanning different facilities, cultures, and continents. Deep technical background across system and software architectures, mobile apps, cloud services, and platform software from cloud to multithreaded firmware and custom HW enables a unique ability to collaborate with internal cross-functional teams across all disciplines and external customers to deliver market-dominating products.
Leading the international TPM team, engineering services, engineering lab services, tech pubs and release management to effectively plan, execute, communicate, scale and deliver software releases and company objectives within R&D. * Improved release planning, execution, NPI and postmortem PMO processes by implementing new metrics, KPIs and data transparency resulting in a 20% increase in delivery commitment metrics while also supporting R&D quality initiatives. * Spearheaded the engineering services' drive for infrastructure modernization by successfully transitioning to a cloud-centric build/deployment environment and effectively linking cloud pipelines with long-standing embedded CI/CD testing infrastructure. * Led multidisciplinary collaboration between Engineering Lab Services, IT, Security Ops, and Finance to design and implement a state-of-the-art R&D lab in Chennai, India. * Primary R&D stakeholder in PSIRT, overseeing US Gov M-22-18 attestation as well as formalizing our SBOM deliverables.
Lead Search TPM for Amazon Music driving innovation and delivery of platform, search relevance, machine learning, and personalization improvements measured with A/B experimentation to help Alexa and mobile/web customers find their favorite music. * Led introduction of online ML re-ranking model into Alexa voice search stack in partnership with ML team to improve the relevance of search results for customers while meeting latency requirements at scale. * Led the transformation and migration to microservice re-architecture from monolith resulting in increased developer velocity as well as reliability improvements that reduced on-call workloads. * Drove infrastructure, query plan, and ML reranking improvements to make it easier to find newly released music. * Achieved improvements in search capabilities with the addition of features including HD Audio, Spatial audio (Atmos/RA360), and child-friendly music content.
Led the organizational shift to a platform-based professional service organization to align our SAAS and mobile platforms to reusable solutions that could be enhanced to meet an expanding customer and partner landscape.
Lead global engineering organization delivering our fitness SaaS platform, including white label mobile apps, cardio equipment SDKs and the Netpulse web services to provide health clubs the ability to deliver a branded mobile experience to their members with integration support of wearable technologies and club management back office systems to bring the digital revolution to the fitness industry. Pioneered a new business unit, hired multiple full stack and mobile development teams to personalize native white label mobile apps and web services for our largest enterprise customers.
Managed global SW & FW development and quality assurance teams in the US, Canada, and China. Led 100+ engineers in creating SOC FW and PCIe reference board SW for digital TV broadcast solutions, focusing on audio/video processing and transcoding.