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Abhijeet Gijare

Abhijeet Gijare

Engineering Leader, Distributed Systems, Cloud Services, SaaS
Cary,NC

Summary

Goal-driven engineering leader with over 25 years of progressive experience in software development. Proven leadership skills and ability to manage global, diverse, cross-functional teams. Experienced in bringing SaaS offerings to the market utilizing the latest cloud technologies.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
5
5
Certificates

Work History

Software Engineering Manager

Google
2023.06 - Current
  • Leading the GCS storage capacity planning function in the Cloud org.
  • Leading a team of 5 SWEs to deliver features for byte diversity, demand forecasting, order automation, storage efficiency accounting
  • Bootstrapping a new team for network capacity planning

Software Development Manager

Google
6 2020 - 2023.06
  • Led a team of 16 Engineers in the Fleet Deployment Optimization (FDO) org for Google's Datacenter Automation
  • Landed Unified Hardware Modeling for Racks which simplified the fleet configuration across all the systems.
  • Owned delivery, operations and execution while partnering across the org to drive towards a shared vision

Sr. Engineering Manager and Site Lead

VMware Inc.
2019.01 - 2020.06
  • Built and led diverse and global engineering team to build VMware Cloud as SaaS product that offers VMware’s enterprise-class Software Defined Data Center software inside the AWS Cloud
  • Partnered with AWS Engineering to design, develop and scale the control plane currently serving more than 400 enterprise customers in 17 global regions.
  • Built vision, roadmap and technical strategy for the product while managing end-to-end lifecycle including operations.

Software Development Manager

Amazon
2015.06 - 2019.01
  • Owned end-to-end lifecycle of AWS Commerce Platform components including SDLC for feature enhancements, region expansions and operations to maintain 99.9999% availability
  • Developed and executed roadmap for web services that power Kindle subscriptions and author facing functions which are adapted by over 70000 authors and 3 million readers globally.
  • Built and managed team of 15 engineers and one manager. Provided technical and process leadership to improve efficiency and quality.

Senior Engineering Manager - GoTo Products

Citrix Systems Inc.
2013.10 - 2015.05
  • Built and led highly engaged global engineering teams of 2 architects, 18 engineers and 2 managers in US, Germany and India to deliver SaaS products for Online Conferencing (GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining)
  • Developed and scaled the services to allow 1000 users per conference with high quality audio, HD video and screen-sharing experience.
  • Co-owned product roadmap and vision with business counterpart. Accelerated decisions and outcomes.

Engineering Manager - GoTo Products

Citrix Systems Inc.
2011.10 - 2013.10
  • Managed tech team merger and restructured the organization as a part of Netviewer AG acquisition in Germany
  • Delivered core services that power video sharing and recording features in online conferences (GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining)
  • Delivered AWS Kinesis based telemetry pipeline that processes 6 million events per hour at peak
  • Provided technical leadership and architectural oversight while making key design decisions.

Staff Software Engineer | GoTo Products

Citrix Systems Inc.
2010.04 - 2011.10
  • Owned end-to-end development and cross-team technical leadership of platform services used for Online Conferencing products (GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining)
  • Designed, developed and scaled RESTful services using service-oriented-architecture.
  • Managed tech team merger as a part of Vidsoft Gmbh acquisition

Senior Software Engineer

Citrix Systems
2008.01 - 2010.04
  • Rearchitected a heavy monolithic system to adopt micro-service based architecture.
  • Built service-oriented middleware platform using Java/J2EE technologies and integrated with online conferencing products (GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar)

Technical Consultant

Fox Interactive Media
2007.02 - 2008.01
  • Designed, developed and tested Java/J2EE based web applications

Technical Architect

Persistent Systems
2005.06 - 2007.02
  • Designed and developed software solutions using distributed systems on Java/J2EE platform

Senior Software Engineer

Capgemini
2002.03 - 2005.05
  • Designed, developed and tested web applications using Java/J2EE platform

Software Engineer

3i Infotech
2001.01 - 2002.03

Developed Java/J2EE based applications

Member of Technical Staff

SIEMENS
1999.08 - 2000.12

Developed Real-Time Control Systems for industrial automation using C, PLC and SCADA systems

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communication

Dr. B.A.M University
India
1995.07 - 1999.07

Skills

Global Team Management, Site Leadership

Software

Java/J2EE Platform, Spring Framework, Hibernate

Distributed Systems, Service Oriented Architecture, RESTful APIs

Cloud Technologies, AWS

Web Technologies, JSP/Servlets, MVC, JavaScript

RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL), NoSQL (DynamoDB, CouchDB)

DevOps (Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven, Docker, Terraform, Git)

Certification

Sun Certified Java Programmer

Work Availability

monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Work Location

Hybrid

Important To Me

Stock Options / Equity / Profit SharingPaid time offCareer advancementCompany Culture401k matchHealthcare benefits

Languages

English
Full Professional
Hindi
Full Professional
Marathi
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Software Engineering Manager

Google
2023.06 - Current

Sr. Engineering Manager and Site Lead

VMware Inc.
2019.01 - 2020.06

Software Development Manager

Amazon
2015.06 - 2019.01

Senior Engineering Manager - GoTo Products

Citrix Systems Inc.
2013.10 - 2015.05

Engineering Manager - GoTo Products

Citrix Systems Inc.
2011.10 - 2013.10

Staff Software Engineer | GoTo Products

Citrix Systems Inc.
2010.04 - 2011.10

Senior Software Engineer

Citrix Systems
2008.01 - 2010.04

Technical Consultant

Fox Interactive Media
2007.02 - 2008.01

Technical Architect

Persistent Systems
2005.06 - 2007.02

Senior Software Engineer

Capgemini
2002.03 - 2005.05

Software Engineer

3i Infotech
2001.01 - 2002.03

Member of Technical Staff

SIEMENS
1999.08 - 2000.12

Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communication

Dr. B.A.M University
1995.07 - 1999.07

Software Development Manager

Google
6 2020 - 2023.06

Sun Certified Java Programmer

Sun Certified Web Component Developer

Sun Certified Business Component Developer

Sun Certified Enterprise Architect

PG Diploma in ML/AI Business Applications

Abhijeet GijareEngineering Leader, Distributed Systems, Cloud Services, SaaS