Anjan Dash
Software Engineer
Fremont,CA
Summary
Proven track record of 10+years in multiple companies/multiple industries for managing product delivery/product quality under shifting requirements. Hands on experience in Distributed Computing,
AI/ML Platform, Cloud Tech, Big Data.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Tech Lead
Meta Platforms Inc ( Formerly Facebook)
Menlo Park, USA
12.2019 - Current
- Led cross-disciplinary team of 7 (4 System/ML generalists, 1DS, 2DE) and collaborated with broader org (50+ eng, 3+ managers, and reporting to senior director) on alignment, consolidation, integration. Delivered best-in-class in-house ML ops solution.
- Addressed key company priorities around model refresh, data privacy, GDPR, lifecycle, obsolescence, and developer efficiency.
Lead Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East Palo Alto, CA
05.2017 - 12.2019
- Launched Tier 1 AWS Service "SageMaker Ground Truth" that reduces training data labeling cost up to 70% using Active Learning.
- Conducted deep dive sessions with internal & external customers (Intuit, Airbnb, Amazon Go, Amazon Prime Air and many startups), to uncover hidden pain points; recommended product improvements.
- Led design/implementation efforts for multiple components, improved DevOps and oversaw GDPR compliance efforts.
- Communicated project plans, tracking details, status updates and risk mitigation plans to cross-functional team
Principal Software Engineer
Charles River Development ( Part Of State Street)
Boston, MA
11.2015 - 05.2017
- Led tech team engagements with large customers such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo, conducted design reviews to handle Tax Lots handling of complex asset classes, such amortizing fixed income bonds and related Unrealized Gain Loss calculations.
- Improved dev efficiency by modularizing integration testing framework and introducing test generation feature; increased test coverage, reduced bug finding/fixing cycles by 20% Organized cross-org data model reviews and quality Hackathons resulting in10% drop in bugs in released product.
Lead Software Engineer
Putnam Investments
Boston, MA
08.2014 - 11.2015
- Led geographically distributed team, building High Frequency Trade Compliance system.
- Improved performance of post-trade compliance component by 80%, using distributed computing & parallel processing.
- Handled complex issues of thread starvation in hyper time-sensitive pre-trade compliance processes.
Principal Engineer
Altisource Labs
Bangalore, India
03.2014 - 08.2014
- Served in task force, comprising very senior engineers, responsible to modernize tech stack and migrate to newer technologies.
- Evaluated open source products (Integration frameworks such as Spring integration, Camel, WSO2 suite, AWS Cloud offerings, Cassandra etc.). interacted with vendors to build proof of concepts.
- Presented monthly reports to CTO to help in making Build vs Buy decisions.
Senior Software Engineer
Intuit
Bangalore, India
01.2011 - 03.2014
- Technical owner for 0-1 product for pre-release testing of mobile apps on 400+ physical phones/tablets. Reduced user incidents by 20% on low end android devices and 45% on Android Tablets; established CI/CD processes.
- Enabled remote debugging by building low level component that continuously streams screenshots from Android devices. Improved developer efficiency by at least 30%.
Senior Software Engineer
Oracle
Bangalore, India
01.2010 - 01.2011
- Led team of 3 people to build data versioning system for "Clinical Trial" data management platform.
- Improved regulatory compliance enabling audit trail for data submitted to FDA
Project Manager
Genworth Financial Lynchburg, Virginia
Lynchburg, Virginia
07.2005 - 12.2009
- Grew from junior engineer to Project Manager, in Insurance Agent commission calculation engine rewrite (Mainframe to JAVA) project.
- Managed team of 8 people and brought in cost saving of 3 million USD per year
Education
Postgraduate - Software Enterprise Management
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
India 06.2011 - 12.2013
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science
National Institute of Technology, Bhopal
India 06.2002 - 07.2005
Skills
Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing
AI/ML Life Cycle Management
Big Data: Spark, Kafka
Multithreading
Languages: Java, Python, SQL
Project Management
Timeline
Tech Lead
Meta Platforms Inc ( Formerly Facebook)
12.2019 - Current
Lead Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
05.2017 - 12.2019
Principal Software Engineer
Charles River Development ( Part Of State Street)
11.2015 - 05.2017
Lead Software Engineer
Putnam Investments
08.2014 - 11.2015
Principal Engineer
Altisource Labs
03.2014 - 08.2014
Postgraduate - Software Enterprise Management
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
06.2011 - 12.2013
Senior Software Engineer
Intuit
01.2011 - 03.2014
Senior Software Engineer
Oracle
01.2010 - 01.2011
Project Manager
Genworth Financial Lynchburg, Virginia
07.2005 - 12.2009
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science
National Institute of Technology, Bhopal
06.2002 - 07.2005
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