United States
As an accomplished Principal Software Engineer, I develop the next generation of technologies by effectively navigating ambiguous environments to deliver complex products. My ability to partner with cross-functional stakeholders allows me to deploy process improvements that redefine performance. Currently, exploring AL/ML space and here are some of real world AL/ML projects developed: https://github.com/siddshar2000/AI-projects. Throughout my career, I have had a deep impact on technology decisions by providing technical leadership, influencing product strategy, pioneering architecture, and ensuring on-time delivery of project milestones and client requirements. In addition to building backend systems to increase scalability, I leverage expertise in platforms, tools, and frameworks to solve issues, implement solutions, and unify teams. Connect with me to build a better vision of the future.
While caregiver for family members, battling with Cancer and other critical diseases, I'm developing latest skills in AL/ML space. Here are some of real world AL/ML/ML projects developed: https://github.com/siddshar2000/AI-projects
Architect with hands-on full stack development of products/platforms in Enterprise Engineering org for financial planning of the company that enabled effective management of **Billions of $s** of the company's budget & saving of **Millions of $s** in spend. While influencing broader distributed engineering teams across finance groups, globally.
Establish scope of iterative plan for pioneering high availability (HA) of core offering in partnership with leadership team and internal stakeholders to revolutionize licensing business model and launch during COVID-19 pandemic. Accountable for architecting, scope, strategic planning, and technically leading teams in shipping products and services. • Technical Leadership: Technically led eight-member licensing team while providing consultation as member of architectural groups to whole development org. • Project Leadership: Instrumental in leading authentication team for an urgent Identity Access Management (IAM) projective involving OAuth technology • Strategic Planning: Key contributions in driving high impact decision making regarding licensing products and services, systems, architectural investments, and ownership proposals, which included reimagining the hackathon to drive new ideas. • Process Improvement: Reduced implementation time by fostering test-driven development (TDD) culture. • Performance Management: Empowered cloud-based licensing service monitoring by architecting a distributed system.
Prior to Salesforce acquisition provided technical leadership for innovative Tableau licensing including services in AWS for on-premises client products that enabled virtualized environment licensing and role-based subscription supporting 54%+ SaaS customers. Delivered key contributions by effectively handling ambiguity through cross-functional collaboration to juggle competing priorities across technology stacks. • Technical Solution: Salvaged high profile customer relationship by proactively engineering solutions that aligned new licensing platform with requirements, driving full adoption of new offerings. • Process Improvement: Enhanced prioritization for business and technical requirements by grooming backlog. • Product Delivery: Enabled on-time delivery of business-critical product by solving release-blocking issues.
Ascended ranks through three promotions from Office Mobile Software Development Engineer (SDE) to, ultimately, OneNote Senior Software Engineer which entailed leading 4-5 engineers through Windows integration initiative. Earned high-profile recognition for driving performance of OneNote Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, impacting internal and external end users. • Product Development: Oversaw audio recording feature development for back-to-school initiative by collaborating with Windows team to solve background recording issues. • Innovation: Pioneered managed code development inside native C++ based applications to accelerate processes. • Product Improvement: Achieved aggressive power usage reduction target of 26% by orchestrating multi-team multi-year effort. • Performance Management: Improved app boot performance 25% by analyzing user telemetry data and improving code