Arpan Sheth
Adaptable, detail-oriented, hands-on software development manager with experience building systems supporting millions of users.
Adaptable, detail-oriented, hands-on software development manager with experience building systems supporting millions of users.
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Experience
Senior Engineering Manager
- Engineering owner of Digital Assistants(DA) platform, a key component of "Intuit Big Bet" strategy of leveraging AI to connect individuals to experts. Responsible for bringing... more DAs on core Intuit products (TurboTax, QuickBooks and Mint) with a goal to support millions of users in a highly available environment.
- Defined and met various operational goals around platform security/compliance (real time Personal Identifiable Information detection tool) and the overall stability/performance (65,000 concurrent users certified).
- Hired 3 engineers and secured funding for 4 more engineers to support future growth in a short duration. Responsible for hiring, performance management and individual growth of a team of 10+ staff and mid level
software engineers. Driving accountability via delegation, goal setting and regular check-ins/followup.
- Developed team’s mission, charter and long term technical strategy that aligns with organization goals. Leading teams by implementing just enough processes and building a values based team culture. Process
improvements have led to 20% efficiency and deployment gains (measured in terms of sprint and release velocity). Partnering with cross BU stakeholders to increase adoption and stability of conversational platform leading to 90% reduction in failure scenarios.
- Defined and met various operational goals around platform security/compliance (real time Personal Identifiable Information detection tool) and the overall stability/performance (65,000 concurrent users certified).
- Hired 3 engineers and secured funding for 4 more engineers to support future growth in a short duration. Responsible for hiring, performance management and individual growth of a team of 10+ staff and mid level
software engineers. Driving accountability via delegation, goal setting and regular check-ins/followup.
- Developed team’s mission, charter and long term technical strategy that aligns with organization goals. Leading teams by implementing just enough processes and building a values based team culture. Process
improvements have led to 20% efficiency and deployment gains (measured in terms of sprint and release velocity). Partnering with cross BU stakeholders to increase adoption and stability of conversational platform leading to 90% reduction in failure scenarios.
Engineering Manager
- Led multiple engineering teams within Twitter ads org working on various ad products. Helped bring the “Reach & Frequency” ad product from closed alpha to globally available... more beta that generated $20 million in
incremental revenue.
- Internally recruited to run twitter’s ads API platform team which is in critical path to 20% of Twitter’s revenue to improve development velocity and reduce technical debt.
- Developed a multi year strategy to migrate 20+ ad products onto the latest API framework that helped Twitter accelerate product development, deliver to market and reducing the technical debt. Influenced staff engineers and senior leadership to get buy-in by building alignment with org goals, driving awareness and impact analysis to get resources for the initiative.
- Streamlined the new feature request processes, defined working agreements and ownership with cross org teams to reduce framework on-boarding time from 4 weeks to 4 days.
incremental revenue.
- Internally recruited to run twitter’s ads API platform team which is in critical path to 20% of Twitter’s revenue to improve development velocity and reduce technical debt.
- Developed a multi year strategy to migrate 20+ ad products onto the latest API framework that helped Twitter accelerate product development, deliver to market and reducing the technical debt. Influenced staff engineers and senior leadership to get buy-in by building alignment with org goals, driving awareness and impact analysis to get resources for the initiative.
- Streamlined the new feature request processes, defined working agreements and ownership with cross org teams to reduce framework on-boarding time from 4 weeks to 4 days.
Director of Engineering
- Saavn is a premier music streaming platform for Indian music which was acquired by JIO Platform in 2018. I oversaw the web, APIs and back-end engineering and played a critical... more role in growing Saavn from 200,000 to
100+ million users leading to a merger with JioMusic worth $1 billion. I was a key collaborator to onboard JioMusic users onto JioSaavn post acquisition making it #1 Bollywood music streaming product.
- Built a a geographically distributed org of 12 engineers across Mountain view and Mumbai. Collaborated with engineering leadership in change management to support growth from 5 to 60+ engineers.
- Collaborated closely with engineering and product owners across Saavn to develop multi year product and engineering roadmap and technical strategy leading to groundbreaking music products leading to 100 million
monthly active users.
- Oversaw engineering relationships and implementation of Ad and music streaming integration with partners to make Saavn available as a day zero launch partner on various voice platforms (Alexa, Home, Sonos).
- As an early member of Saavn’s core engineering team, I led the backend engineering efforts across growth (email, push notification, social, seo, subscription), new features (radio, mobile/wap, various iterations of user interfaces) and scale (high availability / disaster recovery, observability, security).
- As a domain expert, I held the engineering bar high by performing code and architecture design reviews.
100+ million users leading to a merger with JioMusic worth $1 billion. I was a key collaborator to onboard JioMusic users onto JioSaavn post acquisition making it #1 Bollywood music streaming product.
- Built a a geographically distributed org of 12 engineers across Mountain view and Mumbai. Collaborated with engineering leadership in change management to support growth from 5 to 60+ engineers.
- Collaborated closely with engineering and product owners across Saavn to develop multi year product and engineering roadmap and technical strategy leading to groundbreaking music products leading to 100 million
monthly active users.
- Oversaw engineering relationships and implementation of Ad and music streaming integration with partners to make Saavn available as a day zero launch partner on various voice platforms (Alexa, Home, Sonos).
- As an early member of Saavn’s core engineering team, I led the backend engineering efforts across growth (email, push notification, social, seo, subscription), new features (radio, mobile/wap, various iterations of user interfaces) and scale (high availability / disaster recovery, observability, security).
- As a domain expert, I held the engineering bar high by performing code and architecture design reviews.
Lockerz
Software Engineer
- Participated in design, development, maintenance and testing of the Lockerz platform.
- Built content pipeline to ingest 3rd party video metadata and backend API support... more for the same.
- Built content pipeline to ingest 3rd party video metadata and backend API support... more for the same.
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I have 10 years of experience working on heavily trafficked, large scale projects. I also have 4+ years of management experience hiring and directing talented teams of developers through successful projects.
Currently, I work as an Engineering Leader with Saavn, Inc in Mountain View where I lead a team of engineers to design, develop, scale, maintain and deliver high-quality software on the Saavn platform.
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