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Principal Engineering Manager - Indirect Monetization Portfolio @ Microsoft Led indirect monetization engineering teams at Skype with the record of delivering on innovative consumer and advertiser/merchant products. Senior engineering leadership level role in leading international teams in product development, and operations. Extreme passion for innovation, collaboration, and execution while attracting the best talent and achieving market leadership....

Principal Engineering Manager - Indirect Monetization Portfolio @ Microsoft Led indirect monetization engineering teams at Skype with the record of delivering on innovative consumer and advertiser/merchant products. Senior engineering leadership level role in leading international teams in product development, and operations. Extreme passion for innovation, collaboration, and execution while attracting the best talent and achieving market leadership. Organizationally led team to identify new opportunities as well as drive the Skype's strategy and direction. Key initiatives have included: working with product management in building the Skype monetization strategy and vision, creation of the framework for prioritizing and driving all indirect monetization products and experiences, driving the machine learning initiatives in Skype to predict and provide the best targeted experiences, and partnership with IE, Bing and the Ads teams to develop innovative monetization services and products for Microsoft.Successfully helped to improve the indirect revenue of Skype by over 100% in a challenging cross organization environment. Had collaborative working relationship with other Skype teams and partners which fuelled the Skype monetization baseline as well as came up with some of the most innovative monetization products at Microsoft across mobile and desktop. From April 2012 to December 2015 (3 years 9 months) Palo Alto, CADevelopment Manager @ E2open, Foster City, CA Led a team of 10 engineers in all aspects of development for J2EE-based enterprise collaboration and integration platform (E2open Collaboration Manager), which contained content and exception management functionality with web meeting capabilities for 10,000s of enterprise customers representing over 200 companies. Over two years the number of active companies grew 420% and the number of files managed grew 735%. Managed vendor relationships in an efficient manner, providing relevant technical and product requirements to aid in all solution architecture, design, and implementation processes.Improved B2B/backend system integration, web services API and open integration interface software that enables plug-in capability for enterprise applications, including customer portals. From May 2001 to September 2005 (4 years 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDirector of Engineering @ Ettache.com, Fremont, CA Supervised a team of 20 engineers in the development of N-Tier, a component-based architecture to access, integrate, and analyze personalized and aggregated information from a single location through various internet-enabled devices.Responsible for scalability, performance, productivity and clustering of J2EE-based architecture, along with the technical presentation and integration of solutions at financial customer sites.Implemented Java-based API’s to consolidate and aggregate information from various on-line accounts for presentation and review in a consistent format.Managed the creation of XML protocol to securely exchange information with third-party software. From September 2000 to May 2001 (9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaEngineering Manager - Enterprise Business Unit @ Skype As Skype's Enterprise Engineering Manager, led the execution, road-map and products for the Skype long distance PSTN Dialer, Voice recognition algorithms integration into Skype, & Skype (C2B) lead generation products. Worked with external partners to evaluate offerings that would work best with Skype's Enterprise products. Hired and grew the engineering teams across the globe that reinvigorated the Skype C2B lead generation products, and developed a vision and roadmap for a Skype's C2B offerings. From April 2011 to March 2012 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaHead of Product Engineering - Product Excellence, Application Development, Data Platform @ Petuum, Inc. Leading and growing an amazing team of Data engineers, Software engineers, Machine learning engineers, and AI Researchers to industrialize Artificial Intelligence at scale.Growing data Platform team who is responsible for everything related to data - collection of raw data, storing and analyzing the data, and creating tools to make business decisions.Drive lifecycle of AI/ML model development, training, testing, experimentation, and deployment for various enterprises Sunnyvale, California, United StatesDirector Of Engineering @ Petuum, Inc. Incubated New Frontiers team at Petuum, and built ground breaking product offerings using NLP, Computer Vision and Speech ML technologiesLaunched 5 different ML products in 9 months, and deployed it at various enterprise customers.Hired and grew a diverse team of 35 software engineers, ML engineers, and managers through effective recruiting, mentoring, coaching, and retention strategies for key talents in a highly competitive environment. From November 2018 to November 2019 (1 year 1 month) Sunnyvale, California, United StatesPrincipal Engineering Director - Conversational Platform (CaaP) @ Microsoft Leading a team of talented software engineers working on the next generation Artificial Intelligence, CaaP and Bot platform for 100s of millions of usersDriving technical decisions and hands-on contributing to the direction of CaaP for Skype, and collaborating with Microsoft bot platform, Bing and Cortana teams.Building extensible platform for Consumers, Partners and Developers to seamlessly integrate with SkypeWorking closely with product managers and executive leadership team on planning/strategy in a fast paced and innovative environment. From January 2016 to November 2018 (2 years 11 months) Palo Alto, CASenior Engineering Manager @ Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA Responsible for overall software development life cycle for Yahoo! Small Business (serving > 10 millions users) Shared Hosting, BizMail, and Platform Engineering teams. Liaise with Product Management and Architects to establish product roadmaps, set business strategy and design software system architecture.Led the modernization and BCP of Yahoo! Small Business Software as a Service (SOA) infrastructure, resulting in a 5x increase in scale, 99.9% availability rate and 100% customer SLA compliance.Worked cross-functionally with Product Team to successfully re-vamp and re-architect Yahoo! Sales and Ordering systems, resulting in a 50% increase in conversions. Team has been recognized for outstanding production quality: 40K lines of code reverse engineered, 50K lines of code added, 5K QA test cases, 5 major integration check-points, and zero customer escalations.Led a cross-regional team of engineers based in the US and Bangalore to launch an Open Access Framework (API) for all small business customers, positively impacting millions of users across Yahoo’s hosting and merchant platforms. Migration was the largest infrastructure release in 2009 for the company. From October 2005 to April 2011 (5 years 7 months) San Francisco Bay Area