An engineering leader with 8 years of experience with building and delivering products. I have a passion for learning new technologies and understanding different domains.
Experience
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
Mountain View, CA
Led the migration of the search feature on QuickBooks from lexical to NLP-driven semantic search using Named Entity Recognition (NER), and vector-based retrieval. This increased data discovery by 40% across all of QuickBooks
Delivered end-to-end technical design, and implementation of Intuit Assist, thus driving the 0-to-1 launch of the company’s flagship AI assistant.
Improved the resiliency of the Global Search feature, achieving 99.99% availability and reducing MTTR to <5 minutes through chaos testing, scaling infrastructure, and proactive monitoring.
2019 — 2022
2019 — 2022
Palo Alto, California, United States
Product:
• Led the design and implementation of Compute Profile APIs for TKG which allowed customers to customize kubernetes clusters while deploying them
• Led the design and implementation of making TKG clusters available across multiple availability zones on vSphere
Process:
• Led the team to deliver multiple TKG releases by initiating and owning the entire agile development process
• Collaborated with Product Management, Engineering Leaders, and the architect to ensure we have a well groomed backlog.
• Improved the onboarding experience for the new engineers on the team
• Started regular sprint retros to gather feedback and drive continuous process improvements within the team
2019 — 2019
Palo Alto
Made the Pivotal Container Service (PKS) API more robust that led to customers having more resilience while operating their kubernetes clusters
Mentored junior engineers on the team.
Drove improvements to the release and branching strategy of the product.
2019 — 2019
2019 — 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
Building and delivering features for Opower's flagship product - Home Energy Reports to drive energy efficiency and consumer engagement.
Managing the scrum, planning development sprints, and mentoring junior engineers on the team
Actively involved in quarterly roadmap planning with the leadership teams of engineering and product management to chart the future direction of the product
2017 — 2019
2017 — 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
Lead developer of the team that builds new communication modules to drive energy efficiency and consumer engagement
Designed a solution to scale the Outbound Communication Pipeline by breaking the legacy monolithic data retrievers into RESTful services
Created a RESTful service to schedule and monitor seasonal Behavioral Demand Response events called by utility clients
Identified operational pain points of the product and worked with the delivery teams to reduce operational effort