Vikas Goel

Fremont, CA

Phone: 510-***-**** Email: addf21@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

• 18+ years of experience in software engineering with expertise in managing large and small teams with 5 to 20+ engineers building web applications, data pipelines, advanced reporting and analytics systems, Data Science functions in different domains like Payments, FinTech, Ads and Real estate.

• Experienced leader passionate about coaching/guiding engineers towards success, product strategies, removing roadblocks, collaborating with Product Managers and other leaders, hiring new talent, cross teams resource management, conflict resolution, career advising and advancement.

• Highly motivated, collaborative leader always striving for continuous improvement and excellence.

• Managed teams that built complex, highly performant and scalable distributed systems using Big Data, microservices and serverless architectures in Cloud.

• Managed AI/ML functions to create the next generation of insights and recommendation systems.

• Expert in managing and motivating highly productive teams using Agile.

• Certified Scrum Master.

EXPERIENCE

Realtor.com, Santa Clara, CA Nov 2018 – Till Date

Engineering Manager, Data Platform

• Promoted a team culture of conscientiousness, accountability and fun despite being composed of many cultures with large time zone gaps.

• Partner with Data Science and UX teams to increase customer engagement and lead growth.

• Ideated and built multiple platforms for cross cutting organizational needs.

• Partnered with Customer Support and empowered them by building a webapp to support their needs.

• Driving a data driven culture within the whole platform.

• Motivated the team to optimize resource utilization and drive AWS costs down.

• Actively participate in design discussions.

• Review performance design to make sure scalability is not an afterthought.

• Work with Product, PMO and senior engineering leadership to prioritize quarterly projects that aligns with company goals and OKR’s.

• Partner with Devops to lay down the artifact build needs and any new CI/CD pipeline modifications. Environment: Java, Python, Node.js, AWS, DynamoDB, SageMaker, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Athena, ECS, Lambda, React, JavaScript, REST, GraphQL, AWS Insights, CloudWatch, Splunk, New Relic, Git, Jira, Jenkins MZ, Palo Alto, CA Jan 2018 – Aug 2018

Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform

• Work closely with product management, business and CTO to define short-term and long-term roadmap for Ad Platform.

• Work with team leads in defining the product architecture.

• Work with Data Science team and make sure they have all the data they need for their ML Algorithms.

• Participate in code reviews and design reviews and made sure that the team delivers the highest quality of work in this complex big data platform.

• Actively participate in team growth by partnering with recruiting team.

• Help my teams deliver fast by following agile scrum processes.

• Work with product management and ensure that the team has appropriate requirements, direction and resources to deliver products effectively.

• Work with other leads and managers to plan releases and resource management based on cross team priorities.

Environment: Java 1.8, Microservices, Spring Boot, REST, Spark, Kylo, NiFi, Kafka, Vertica, Druid, Azkaban, Ambari, Grafana, Git, Jira, Jenkins

Workday, Pleasanton, CA May 2016 – Jan 2018

Development Manager

• Work with other leads and managers to plan releases and resource management based on priorities.

• Involved in process improvements by making unit testing as a key part of the development life cycle to ensure quality and confidence.

• Help the team with code reviews and design reviews.

• Involved in campus recruitments and hiring to help build the next generation workday.

• Helping build confidence in new hires with trainings and pairing.

• Work with product management and ensure that the team has appropriate requirements, direction and resources to deliver products effectively.

• Communicating status reports back to stakeholders. Shortened feedback loop for improved delivery and mitigating risks early.

• Awarded as one of the top manager across Workday in Leadership Summit, 2017 based on anonymous feedback from the team.

Environment: Java 1.7, SOAP, MySQL, Maven 3.2.3, AWS, Git, Jira, Jenkins Lending Club, San Francisco, CA June 2013 – May 2016 Development Manager

• Collaborate with Product Management in defining the product vision.

• Contributed directly to a lot of key revenue generating projects.

• For IPO readiness helped the team in debugging and resolving a lot of production issues leading to a much stable system.

• Involved in process improvements by making code reviews and design reviews as part of the development life cycle to ensure quality and compliance.

• Used new relic and Splunk for production monitoring. Created splunk dashboards/alerts etc.

• Worked in a high performance team environment using a Scrum Agile development methodology. This helped the team with better communication, focused development tasks, the ability to adapt quickly to changes, and significantly reduced the QA cycle.

Environment: Java 1.7, REST, Spring, Struts, Node.js, Tomcat 7, Oracle 11g, Eclipse 3.2, Maven 3.2.3, Git, Jira, Jenkins

Visa Inc, Foster City, CA Aug 2007 – June 2013

Team Lead

• Directly involved with product management in prioritizing product requirements, sizing etc.

• Helped business make technology decisions by evaluating different technologies like MongoDB, Hadoop ecosystem.

• Worked on Hadoop map reduce job for transaction replay for fraud detection.

• Designed a custom solution for Flume to talk to MQ Queue and then write to HDFS for ETL process.

• Used sqoop for bulk data transfer from oracle to HDFS.

• Act as liaison for cross-functional teams across CyberSource like Fraud, R&R etc.

• Active participant in code reviews and design reviews.

• Responsible for the design and development of different gateways like Visa DC, Enterprise ACH.

• Instrumental in the successful implementation of a lot of new payment services.

• Developed various asynchronous services with retry using MQ Series.

• Developed a nightly batch settlement process.

Environment: Java 1.7, Cloudera Hadoop CDH4, Flume, Hive, Hue, Scoop, REST, SOAP, Spring, Struts, IBM MQ Series, JMS, Hermes, JAXB, Alaric, Jboss, Jrebel, Tomcat, Oracle 11g, Eclipse, Gliffy, Maven, Accurev, Crucible, Bamboo, Veracode, Sonar

Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA June 2006 – Aug 2007

Lead Engineer

• Involved in meetings with Media Buyers to understand their requirements. Did complete requirement analysis and high-level design. Involved in designing overall object model of the app.

• Lead a team of 10-12 global developers to develop different modules.

• Involved in end-to-end development and delivery of modules using Restful web services. Environment: Java 1.6, Spring 3.0, REST 1.2, Hibernate 3.5, Alfresco, Tomcat 6, OpenAM, CEPM, Oracle, JavaScript, Eclipse, Maven, SVN, Ideas Modeler

Finaplex, CA Jan 2005 – June 2006

Java Developer

• Involved in preparing high level system design for the portfolio management and analysis tool required for trading in tandem with client feedback.

• Deployed and configured a Queue Manager in IBM MQ Series to receive different types of data related to accounts and trades from ADP.

• Developed a single-sign on application for connectivity and loading entitlements when a person logs into ADP Global Framework.

Environment: J2EE, EJB, JSP, Struts, Tiles, Weblogic, Websphere, Oracle, Eclipse, Ant, CVS Newgen Software, India July 2000 – July 2003

Java Developer

• Designed and developed screens using JSP, Servlets and JDBC.

• Developed a complete Document Management and Work Flow solution. Environment: Java, JSP, Servlets, Java Beans, JDBC, JavaScript, IIS, Resin, SQL Server 2000 and VSS SKILLS

Java 8, Cloudera Hadoop, Spark, Map Reduce, Ambari, Azkaban, Flume, Hive, Hue, Sqoop, Kylo, NiFi, REST, SOAP, Spring boot, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, JavaScript, React, Node.js, Agile Methodology, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, Bamboo, Veracode, Sonar

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

MS (Computer Science) from University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) - GPA: 3.80 Aug 2003 – Dec 2004 BS (Computer Science with Honors) from R. E. C., Kurukshetra, India June 1996 – June 2000 CFA Level I – Passed Dec 2010 – Dec 2010

Principles of Corporate Finance - Haas School of Business, Berkeley Jan 2006 – March 2006

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