I work on VMware Cloud on AWS, a hybrid cloud offering that brings VMware’s enterprise class Software-Defined Data Center software to AWS Cloud’s dedicated, elastic, bare-metal infrastructure, delivered as an on-demand service.

Specifically responsible for

• Leading design, development, continuous monitoring & performance optimization, and support for multiple services/components

• Promoting best practices and building/keeping tech stack optimized for business needs

• Mentoring & grooming engineers

• Working & coordinating with various stakeholders such as Product Management, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Engineering teams in other locations

• Lead the design & development of several services and components in the next generation PROS Data Platform (which consists of services such as Data Ingress, Data Catalog, Compute, Data Flow/Pipeline, etc.)

• Built a custom Spark connector in Scala, which abstracts details such as underlying storage technology, data format, etc. and allows Data Scientists & Engineers to explore, transform and process big data easily

• Built Java libraries to allow easy consumption of Data Platform services by multiple application teams at PROS

• Built abstraction layers/APIs over several Azure services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, etc to allow application teams at PROS to use these services in an easy, consistent and secure manner

• Automated the deployment, setup, & maintenance of several Azure services used by Data Platform

• Joined PROS through its acquisition of SignalDemand. As a senior member of the engineering team at SignalDemand, I was solely responsible for the architecture, design, development and maintenance of a highly scalable distributed computing platform that performs scientific calculations on terabytes of data in a short period of time. Often, I worked on rapid prototypes that help the company make strategic decisions

• Lead the design and development of major features of SAP Social Customer Engagement On Demand; specifically, product's integration with various Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Klout

• Did a 6 month stint in Product Management team and was involved in activities such as market/competition research, requirement gathering & analysis, pre-sales activities, etc.

• Completely re-designed master data management for SAP Transportation Management. Also, took the initiative to learn a new UI framework, and later coached team members on it

• Helped SAP consultants and customers implement/customize the product by providing technical and functional expertise

• Joined a newly setup team of five engineers, quickly learned all aspects of the product and started actively contributing in a month

• In 6 months, chosen to lead the team in spite of being the least experienced member

• Introduced peer code reviews to improve quality of the product

• Worked at the client site (IBM Global Services, India) in a very fast paced environment

• Initial responsibility was to support business users in US and Europe by resolving issues/ bugs as per service level agreements.

• In a few months, took on the additional responsibility to do requirement analysis, design and development of new features in the application