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Maps Data Lead @ Apple CupertinoEngineer - Trainee @ Maxim Infotech Engineer - Trainee From October 2001 to February 2002 (5 months) Perl Developer / Quality Engineer @ Atishae Web * Perl developer, created various quality tools for testing GEMS, a SOX compliance application like Regression suite, Random URL generator, Broken Link Checker and others using Mechanize...

Maps Data Lead @ Apple CupertinoEngineer - Trainee @ Maxim Infotech Engineer - Trainee From October 2001 to February 2002 (5 months) Perl Developer / Quality Engineer @ Atishae Web * Perl developer, created various quality tools for testing GEMS, a SOX compliance application like Regression suite, Random URL generator, Broken Link Checker and others using Mechanize module * Lead a team of 6 business analyst for "Sales Lead Generation" project for "The Baxley Group"* Developed Lead Generating Meta Search Engine. * Automated installer testing for Network Chemistry’s windows application using Auto-IT From May 2003 to October 2005 (2 years 6 months) Quality Gatekeeper @ Rubicon Project Ad Serving Division --* Led multiple QA and release teams for entire Ad-delivery pipeline (Ad Engine, Bid Engine, Beacon, Scheduler and Matchmaker) resulting in higher number of release, more automation of testing cycle and fewer rollbacks * Acted as Technical Product Manager, QA Lead and Solution Architect for Rubicon Project’s Native initiative, involving 15 different internal and external components/teams with emphasis on tech spec alignment, Bid protocols, API Integration, Metadata syncs, pricing algorithms, Revenue reconciliation and regression automation, resulting in before time, under budget and zero defect rollout of then world’s largest native exchange * Developed Continuous Integration infrastructure across teams using using Bamboo, Jenkins and Vagrant to speed test results that are accurate and delivered in a timely fashion* Created end-2-end automation suites for different ad delivery channels like native, video and display using Python, Aerospike, Robot Framework, JavaScript* Drive QA for large cross-teams company wide feature rollouts like Mobile, Native, Exchange API, Video and OpenDSP* Led integration of multiple DSP/SSP like Inmobi, Tube-mogul, Videology to Rubicon platform * Python API development for fake DSP which was used to simulate a true end-to-end test environment.* Mentored SDETs on enhancing their automation capabilities and increasing productivity. Data pipeline Division --* Lead QA and TPM for Performance Analytics, the new analytics platform (Data pipeline, Spark Jobs, Druid) * Lead QA and TPM for financial pipeline revamp (Bean Counter)* Build data integrity dashboards which validates data integrity for different dimensions / durations across various endpoints in the pipeline to ensure any data discrepancies is detected and fixed at the earliest ( Spark, SQL, Hive, Druid APIs) * Build automation suite and Continuous integration setup for data pipeline and service APIs From August 2013 to 2016 (3 years) Greater Los Angeles AreaData Quality Lead @ CityGrid Media Core Data Division --* Designed and implemented end-2-end Hadoop test automation which reduced regression time from overnight to 20 mins resulting in higher quality releases and and zero production data issues.* Implemented C.I. dashboards for data pipeline that resulted in higher code coverage, quicker build quality analysis and accurate communication about test results. * Led QA and release teams on day to day deliverables, also instrumental in building and mentoring QA team Budget Division --* Designed and implemented end-2-end test automation and C.I setups team to ensure that regression are auto triggered and that results are accurate and delivered in a timely fashion* Worked with Sales team to fine tune day to day budget pacing for external partners * Led QA team for real time ad bidding platform* Involved in performance testing and benchmarking different components of the pipeline From December 2011 to August 2013 (1 year 9 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaQuality Engineer @ Yahoo! Research & Development Defensive Publications -- * Method and System for Targeting TV Ads based on Geographical Regions ( IP.com #: IPCOM000202805D ) * Method for Targeting Ads on Mobile Devices based on Device Profile ( IP.com #: IPCOM000200047D)QA lead involved with following teams --* Answers* Groups * Buzz Index * Campaign Snapshot* Full Business Insight * Renaissance * Connected Life Marts * Warehouse Feed Management* Cluster ExplorerCommunication and Communities Division ---* Lead/pilot QA for Yahoo Answers, As first QE member was instrumental in building entire QA team and putting process in place* Co-Authored “Answers’s” monetization lift study, used as basis for design and rollout of new product features * Lead/pilot QA for Yahoo Groups, involved in building entire QA team and putting process in place* Lead the team in a migrating “Groups” from “End-Of-Life” technologies and performance benchmarking different components of the pipeline on new architecture. Strategic Data Solutions (SDS) ---* Alpha QA for Hadoop / Pig development as part Renaissance project which involved migrating existing data marts to distributed ecosystem. * Lead/pilot QA for various internal data analytics tools like Buzz Index, Campaign Snapshot and Full Business Insight, As first QE member was instrumental in setting up QA team, automation and process from scratch for all the above teams. * Developed “Fault Injection framework” in Perl which creates complex backend process’s failure scenarios in distributed environment and notifies its impact on data processing * Created production data alerts dashboard which checks data metrics trends and deviations based upon statistical probability* Developed various suites for testing Data pipelines using Perl and shell scripting* Lead QA for Connected Life Marts, implemented the migration to Continuous Integration practice using yHudson (Jenkins) From October 2005 to December 2011 (6 years 3 months)