San Jose, California, United States
Engineering executive with a successful history of delivering world-class B2B Enterprise Fintech and CRM solutions in SaaS, PaaS and mobile environments. Strategic leader passionate about creating strong teams by mentoring, fostering innovation, and establishing opportunities for growth. Proven track record of bringing clarity, vision and solutions to large and very complex technology problems. Focused on best-in-class product creation, while executing on mission-critical deliverables and business outcomes. Acknowledged by peers for the ability to establish a culture of “Excellence in Design”, leading to the delivery of new products and revenue streams, and next level performance from existing product suites. Adept at finding remarkable technical talent while building an environment that expects and delivers the highest product quality, resulting in high performing and committed teams. Excels working vertically and horizontally, both internally and in client-facing engagements.
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Head of engineering for fintech services business unit of global business commerce platform with over a trillion B2B transactions enabling AP automation, e-Procurement, marketplaces, receivables financing and tail spend management. Spearheaded Fintech solutions portfolio with receivables financing (Cash), supply chain finance (SCF) and tail spend management solution (Go). * Launched a new Cash product in the UK achieving $125M funded in 18 months across 55K invoices. Introduced sophisticated funding, payment allocation, and dilution prediction designs resulting in groundbreaking low aggregated program loss of ~0.015% with invoice funding rate of over 70%. * Scaled Go active monthly customer base by > 400% in 18 months and total spend volume by 239% over 3 years by implementing design optimizations, customer experience enhancements, enhanced observability, and self service tools. * Successfully launched a brand new receivables financing program with HSBC in India within a record-breaking 9 months as a crucial step towards the establishment of a joint venture with HSBC and Tradeshift. Established product delivery framework, technical design, staffing, and engineering roadmap for the joint venture with HSBC to deliver embedded digital payment and fintech services across multiple geographies. * Proposed and created the Engineering Growth Framework, adopted across all business units, with tools, processes, and guidelines for engineers and managers to collaborate on growth and performance objectives. * Led a global, multi-level organization of 40 across USA, Romania, and Denmark with ownership of multiple product lines, and delivery schedules. * Technologies: Java, TypeScript, React, Angular, NodeJS, AWS, Kubernetes, RESTful API, micro-services, postgres, Cassandra, Kafka, RabbitMQ, CI/CD.
Led the AI, Sugar Mobile and Plug-in engineering teams and deliverables. Acted as a collaboration partner to the product team, creating vision and product road-maps. Created and delivered strategy, innovation and execution across all product platforms. Led the integration of people, processes and standards, resulting in shipping feature rich products. * Created the organizational AI vision and technical roadmap. Successfully developed and launched the conceptual No Data Entry direction, leading to Machine Learning based Sales Enablement functionality. * Led the core applications team, delivering a portfolio of products with nearly $80M in ARR. * Led a global team of 35 delivering core applications. * Established an “Engineering Excellence” culture, elevating engineering and product standards organizationally, leading to highly predictable quarterly releases. Drove a significant improvement in client adoption rate from 60% to 98% through a combination of rapid innovation and “upgrade safety”. * Led the technical integration of the Collabspot acquisition, creating and delivering the re-launch roadmap, feature equivalency analysis and technical improvement plan. * Increased subscription base of the Sugar Hint product by over 173% over 12 months, through the implementation of release rigor and automated testing, reducing post release escalations to zero. * Established a new campus recruiting program and expanded the technical internship program, significantly improving brand awareness, increasing the quality of talent pipeline, and reducing time to hire in a highly competitive job market. * Technologies: JavaScript, Backbone.js, React, Docker, PHP, Java, NodeJS, Kubernetes, RESTful API, micro-services, iOS and Android applications, relational and NoSQL databases, ML and NLP, CI/CD.
Launched a data-analytics company focused on teen-driver safety, leading to the development and launch of Truvolo Drive, a SaaS based connected car product. Launched the product in 12 months, leading to a successful exit through the sale of the company to Imantics. * Conceived, designed and developed the core product in both iOS and Android platforms incorporating web, big data ETL and analytics. * Recognized by the industry through press coverage and interviews by USA Today (full page article and video feature), CBS (video feature), CNET, SVBJ, Yahoo Tech, PandoDaily, as well as presentations at IoT and venture conferences including TiECon. * Recruited and managed a global engineering and design team in US, India, Russia, and Portugal. * Technologies: Bluetooth Smart (BLE), Android, iOS, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, RESTful API, MongoDB, Cassandra, Java.
Founding team member, responsible for standardizing the software development lifecycle and processes for mission-critical application development and product delivery. Provided first and second level management and leadership for multiple teams in UI, platform, VoIP development, and testing. * Enabled the capture of $40M in external funding by leading the software development and product contributions to the Enterprise VoIP product suite. Delivered the first MVP version in 18 months. * Contributed to strategic business building capabilities by implementing software lifecycle processes, best practices and planning principles, providing key and actionable insights, ensuring on-time and predictable delivery. * Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, Java, RESTful API, MySQL, HBase, Hadoop, OpenSIPS, Android, iOS