I specialize in straddling the boundaries of applied science, ML solutions in production and engineering, successfully taking a high-level vision into concrete deliverables that delights customers, improves system efficiency, and reduces COGS. I find immense joy in building teams, shaping the team culture for efficient execution and growing individuals to help them reach their career goals.
In specific, I have experience with the following:
Build, manage, and grow multiple teams to own and successfully execute end-to-end intelligent user experiences combining advanced ML techniques with scalable engineering practices for products with billions of diverse active users.
Example: I hired 17 ICs and 1 EM in ~6 months to form the Marketplace Integrity team as well as led the team to hit all business metrics in an year.
Hands on experience scaling and operating services at massive scale.
Example: >2 billion PowerPoint slides have used Designer Intelligence that was led by my team.
Find the balance between product virility and paid tier adoption that requires me to flex between engineering, product and business strategy
Example: Grow user base for scheduling assistant from order of 100s (Private preview) to ~50k (GA) and adoption for paid tiers
Foster and evangelize long term technology bets for the business.
Example: The conversational scheduling assistant we built saved a cumulative 100k hours of time managing activities around meetings (scheduling, rescheduling, conference room booking, time zone considerations etc.).
Grow leaders (individual contributors and managers) and build succession plans to ensure business continuity.
Example: I have grown junior ICs to principal ICs, ICs to TLM and EM roles
Scale engineering teams, processes and cultures to meet growing business needs.
Example: Design execution processes (e.g. SEV reviews, project updates) when the team grew from 3 ICs to 25 ICs
Partner across disciplines, functions, and organizations to own end-to-end delivery and success.
Examples:
I have worked extensively with Legal, Compliance, Privacy teams, Operations teams in addition to Product Managers, TPMs, UXR, Design & Data Science teams to graduate a conversational assistant prototype to Private Preview.
At Lacework, I am accountable for success of 3 enterprise customers which requires me to collaborate closely with Sales/Field organizations. I also worked with closely with GTM/Marketing for launching GenAI based Lacework Assist.
Evangelize and advance scientific knowledge by publishing novel work in conferences.
Example: Papers published by me and my coauthors have over 1100 citations and I have collaborated on 24 patent applications so far.