Manager Engineer

SOUMEN SARKAR ******.******@*****.*** 408-***-****

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SOUMEN SARKAR

San Jose, CA, 95129

https://soumensarkar.weebly.com/

SENIOR TECHNICAL MANAGER PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT

A Senior Technical Manager / Principal Architect with systems architecture and cloud-based product management & leadership in environments ranging startups to large corporations. Hands-on architecture and development experience in web scale e-commerce, global Content Distribution Network (CDN), Telecommunication Network Management & System Engineering. Web scale scalability and complexity management and architecture experience with data architecture, OLTP and OLAP best practices. Published papers on software engineering and digital signal processing. Deeply experienced on Platform strategy and thinking. Skills include: Hiring & Mentoring People Leadership Cross Functional Platform Strategy Web Experimentation Tech Product Management SOA / API High Scale / Low Latency Scaled Agile (SAFe) Java / C# C / C++ Linux

IaaS / IaaS+ Threat Modeling OLAP / OLTP / Data Vault Achieved three US patents on cloud native service design for parameter management. MS EE from IIT, India. Achieved following certifications:

Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse SnowPro Core

Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2020

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Consulting Technical Leader InsightGlobal San Francisco, CA Scaled Agile Framework for enterprise (SAFe) environment embedded consultant in the role of Technical Leader (for a large utility) in data engineering project leading to a decision support system for safe operation. The data analytics project was initially based on AWS Glue data pipeline and then moved to Palantir Foundry data management platform.

Evaluated Palantir Foundry platform capabilities and helped in decision and migration away from AWS based data pipeline

Hired python data engineering consultants

Self-trained on Palantir Foundry platform and then trained new members on Palantir data ingestion, cleansing, enrichment, Ontological modeling and model coordination, and visualization

Collaborated with Enterprise Architecture (EA) group to adopt Data Vault hybrid modeling methodology

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2017

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Tech Director - Principal Architect, Platform Macy’s San Francisco, CA Technical Director role with dual responsibility of Principal Architect and Group Technical Product Manager reporting to Vice President of Enterprise Platform. Few accomplishments:

Closely managed agile backlog of six platform products in the areas of Core Framework, Experimentation, SOA/API and DevOps leading to developer community requested feature deliveries and consistent enterprise wide acceleration

Interfaced with Akamai on secure CDN integration for A/B testing and site acceleration

Led proof-of-concept projects in the areas of API backward compatibility checking and contract testing in continuous integration pipeline resulting in 2x speedup of micro services integration validation

Authored several internal position papers on enterprise platform point of view like API versioning, Google Spanner tradeoff / decision tree, Product documentation strategy, Product lifecycle and road mapping model, KPI / KRI and monitoring.

Led and improved SOA Governance process in the context of transition to Google Cloud Platform ensuring cloud native preparedness

Achieved threefold increase in Enterprise Platform product portfolio Net Promoter Score (NPS) via creation of a self-contained documentation portal by using ReadTheDocs open source product

Mentored several business analyst / architect roles to transition to technical product ownership role fully or part-time

Collaborated on shift left DevOps and Security with 12-factor principles leading to mature CI/CD pipeline needed for cloud migration readiness 2012

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Senior Tech Product Manager, Platform WalmartLabs Sunnyvale, CA Agile Product Owner for several platform products in WalmartLabs private cloud platform team reporting to Senior Director. Working with few technical architects and 20+ developers / managers. Responsibilities included:

Agile product owner (using JIRA/Confluence) of foundational components of WalmartLabs private cloud platform product portfolio (IaaS / IaaS+) such as Messaging as a Service, Platform for Persistent Orchestration, Cloud Watch / Monitoring and Cloud Configuration Parameter Management.

Mentored a Software Engineer and Information Security Expert to successfully transition to Associate Product Manager role.

Product Strategy, Product Communication, Vendor Relationship, Executive engagement. Process Improvement, BRD/PRD/ERD authoring, Bi weekly Demonstration, Quarterly Business Review, Product Roadmap/Status Presentation, Research of Market and Products

Achieved three US patents on cloud application parameter management SOUMEN SARKAR ******.******@*****.*** 408-***-**** 3/4

2011

-12

Architect / Senior Manager Akamai San Mateo, CA

Architect and Manager of the core server team (eight members) of Akamai’s cloud based content distribution network (CDN) platform providing the functionality of media delivery, web security, and web application acceleration. Reported to Senior Director and responsibilities included:

C/C++ code and design review

Program and release management participation

Hiring senior developers and mentoring junior developers

IPv6 SSL support of Akamai CDN caching server

IPv6 / asynchronous DNS support of HTTP load testing tool ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

2008 - 11 Architect / Manager NOKIA San Francisco, CA Hands on software development lead of the Point and Find augmented reality platform team leading in the area of application server, data architecture, scalability, availability and operational reliability for Point and Find mobile application backend platform. Reported to Head of Engineering and worked closely with CTO. Developed Linux based server side using the POrtable COmponents (POCO) C++ Libraries.

2006 - 08 Manager Software Eng. Ditech Mountain View, CA Managed team of six people for Ditech Network’s element management system comprising of Java based management system and VxWorks agents. Hired FTEs and contractors. The product enabled Ditech to sell network elements to large telecom operators in US and internationally.

2006 Senior Technical Leader Yahoo Sunnyvale, CA

As a member of tiger team in Yahoo Platform engineering organization contributed to C language based development of Yahoo advertisement system named Panama. Panama was a very critical market survival initiative for Yahoo. 2004 – 06 Staff Software Engineer PayPal San Jose, CA Participated in PayPal site scalability re-architecture project (N-Way & Atlas projects). PayPal was in crucial need of enhancing site scalability to support payment volume growth. Contributed by writing C++ code to verify distributed transaction architecture and scalability of database transaction coordination tier. 2003 - 04 Technical Leader IronSpeed Mountain View, CA Developed a parser for IronSpeed Inc’s tag language in C# using ANTLR parser generator for the Iron Speed Designer product. The formal grammar based parser replaced hand-coded parser and eliminated many parsing defects. SOUMEN SARKAR ******.******@*****.*** 408-***-**** 4/4

2000 - 03 Lead Software Engineer Atoga Milpitas, CA Developed a novel approach for code generation using XML and XSLT to generate Java and C code for Element Management System software resulting in huge savings and improvement of programming productivity. 1996 –

2000

Senior Software Engineer TCSI Alameda, CA

Developed telecommunication network management framework using C++ and OSI standards.

PATENTS

2019 USPTO 10,325,003 Configuration resolution for transitive dependencies 2018 USPTO 9,881,098 Configuration resolution for transitive dependencies 2016 USPTO 9,336,021 Configuring applications at runtime EDUCATION

MS Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India.

BS Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, India. PUBLICATIONS

(https://soumensarkar.weebly.com/)

Model Driven Programming, published in XML journal of SYS-CON media, August 2002, Volume 3, Issue 8. The article showed an interesting approach of source to source translation through scripting over syntax tree via XSLT.

Technical Interviewing Technique, published in Software Developer’s Journal. The article showed a structured approach to interviewing with an engaging problem in algorithm analysis.

IEEE paper on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) to recover signal from channel transformation and noise.

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