Transitioning from Technical Professional to Manager

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Huawei certified professional in C++

Leading Effective Decision-Making, Yale School of Management

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Given training to 7th and 8th-semester students on C/C++ in preparation for campus recruitment. Prepared model exam papers and discussed in depth on interview questions. Attendees found it to be very useful and few of them got jobs after the training.

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Provided free technical consulting for an NGO to set up the organization website and email.

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● Gold Medal Award, April 2007 at the organization level for the achievements in the project ● Huawei Certified Professional in C++, 2006 ● Product Consciousness Award, August 2006, for independently building an automation tool for a tedious build process. ● Travelled to Shenzhen, China to Huawei HQ for 3 months for integration of Conference Peripheral in Back Administration Module. ● Found the root cause & fixed a rare crash which occurs once in 30 days ● Proposed 5 value-added features and got an appreciation

Software Engineer

● Hired, Setup and built a team of more than 10+ engineers for various projects, delivering consistently high-quality on-time deliverables. ● Driven a new initiative for an innovative and ambitious new project proposal to completely overhaul and re-architect an old legacy software application platform to a newer application platform for usability, compatibility, high performance, and future proof. The proposal was presented with clear cost-benefit analysis to the top-level management and key stakeholders. Won appreciation from stakeholders for the proposal, planning & execution. ● Received appreciations from the functional manager and stakeholders for the keen attention to the quality of deliverables and pushing the extra mile when needed for on-time delivery. ● Successfully delivered more than 40+ high-quality software releases across 12+ various products in 3 major software platforms. ● Done 8 business trips to France (4 times), Denmark (1 time) and China (3 times) for actively leadi

Software Development Manager

● Efficiently completed 06 projects as an individual ● Successfully accomplished hiring of 05 mid-level Software Engineer positions ● Received ‘Always Exceeded Expectation’ appreciation 07 times

Software Engineer II

● Executed the full software development life cycle of UPS Tuner (Legacy & Terminal) ● Prepared specifications, oversaw design, coding, testing, and guided junior ● Conducted code reviews and managed the distribution of the application. ● Involved in the hiring of software developers for the team.

Senior Software Engineer

Oracle Communications Performance Intelligence Center (OCPIC) provides a suite of web applications and tools that enables service providers to capture network traffic data and convert it into useful BI for troubleshooting and for managing traffic, roaming, services and revenue. ● Managed the entire engineering team of more than 14 developers, QA and UX Designer for the OCPIC product. ● Worked with the key stakeholders to build a clear vision, roadmap and execution strategy for 2 years for the Next Generation OCPIC with 3 main goals - Simplification, High Performance, Better User Experience. ● Worked with the team to build a strategy and choose the right technologies, framework and tools based on a clear set of evaluation criteria to re-engineer NextGen ● Worked with the team to build a strategy and choose the right technologies, framework and tools based on a clear set of evaluation criteria to re-engineer Next Generation OCPIC. ● Taken a self-driven initiative to work with a cross-GBU

Senior Engineering Manager

Microsoft Edge is making the web better through more open-source collaboration while Edge promises to continue to enable customers to do more. ● Managed the full-stack engineering team of 9 developers as part of the Microsoft Edge Extensions team. The team is working on the Partner Center for Edge Addons product. ● Deeply involved in technical architecture, design and code-reviews of features released helping the team make the right choices for robustness, reliability, scalability, and maintainability. ● As part of Partner Center v2, proposed and collaborated with all stakeholders to get buy-in for milestone model creating maximum parallelization. This helped us to deliver the changes much faster and at regular cadences than delivering values to our end-customer. ● Public API support for publishing extensions was one of the top-ask from our developers. Collaborated with the team to explore existing frameworks and deep dive into frameworks. Compared the competitive offering from Google 

Principal Software Engineering Manager - Microsoft Edge

● Prepared specifications, oversaw design, coding, testing and managed the distribution of the application. ● Provide technical leadership by giving right direction technically, provide design guidance, review the code, orient the process, mentor and coach the team, review the status of the team regularly. ● Help the team to resolve challenges, moderate brainstorming sessions ● Mentoring and coaching a team of more than 10 Software Developers ● Led and managed a team of more than 10 Developers ● Communicated regularly with stakeholders ● Involved in Hiring of the software developers at different experience levels - fresher, mid-level and senior level.

Technical Lead

As the founding leader of the Position Management team at Paylocity, I built and scaled a cross-functional engineering team from scratch in Prague. Together, we’ve delivered foundational HR capabilities that power strategic workforce planning, operational efficiency, and security across the HCM platform. Over the past two years, I’ve driven initiatives spanning legacy modernization, API architecture, real-time eventing, observability, and enterprise-scale integrations—while fostering a culture of clarity, ownership, and continuous learning. 🔧 Key Initiatives & Impact: ● Built team processes, onboarding programs, and authored 50+ wiki pages—cutting new hire ramp-up time by 40%. ● Launched Multiple Positions per Employee, Auto-Update of Employee Data, and User Access by Position—solving key business use cases at scale. ● Led the .NET 6 migration across critical APIs, improving performance and reliability. ● Delivered real-time mutation events for Position Catalog using a transactional o

Engineering Manager II - Position Management Team

Delivering reliable, scalable, fluent meeting join experience for hundreds of millions of users in Microsoft Teams desktop and web apps. Providing critical tools for business professionals to do their work, for students and teachers to perform their studies, for doctors and patients to meet for health care, for government institutions to run their sessions, and for families and friends to have fun in a modern hybrid world. ● I am leading an engineering team of Meeting Join within Microsoft Teams Organization, owning critical features like Pre-Join, Lobby experience, Meeting Transfer, Device Permission UX on the Web, and Custom Branding Experience. ● As the primary owner of a complex Custom Branding feature in Teams Premium SKU, I drove the end-to-end engineering efforts leading a few cross-engineering teams spread across TAC (Teams Admin Center), ACMS (Azure Central Management Store), AMS (Async Media Services), IC3 (Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud), FAST library team

Principal Software Engineering Manager - Microsoft Teams

● Got to work in a startup company PiCorp, which EMC later acquired and is now part of DELLEMC. ● Taken the ownership for Binary Synchronizer, Binary Abstraction Layer and developed new features in these modules. Built features on upload/download module of the file. ● Independently fixed many inherent design level bugs added new features and developed new algorithms for the existing system. ● An Independent research project was done in parallel to study different ways to monitor the file system. ● Came up with a comparative study between – Notification mechanism, Journaling and Mini Filter. ● Completely designed and implemented File System Watch system. ● Proposed the best algorithm for detecting File System changes, which is then queued up for upload. ● Implemented a prototype for Mini Filter driver. ● Was part of 3 major release of PiWorx.

Software Development Engineer

I lead three engineering teams within Paylocity's Core HR product space: ● Position Management:  A platform and product to simplify and streamline creating, updating, and utilizing company and employee position data ● Custom Fields, Skills, and Certification: A product of configurable custom fields and skills products used across the HCM suite ● Frontend Experience: focused team helping product groups migrate features to the modern web platform My role is to align these teams around a shared Core HR vision, ensure reliable delivery across products, and grow the next layer of leaders. Focus and achievements ● Own area level roadmap and delivery across Position Management, Custom Fields, Skills and Certification, and Frontend Experience, partnering with product and design to connect engineering outcomes to Core HR strategy. ● Coordinate planning and execution across three teams so shared platform work, migrations, and feature delivery land in a predictable way for customers. ● Strengthen

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