ANURAG KATRE
Director Of Engineering
Sammamish,WA
Summary
I am a seasoned leader, experienced engineer and a tech enthusiast with a passion for solving complex problems and delivering results. My technical expertise lies in building large scale distributed cloud hosted applications and global solutions. I have applied this expertise to build scalable value added service platforms at eBay and global shipping products , built solutions for Capacity Optimization at AWS EC2, and built large scale asynchronous job processing platforms for PowerApps organization at Microsoft.
As a leader I pride myself on building highly result oriented teams and cultivate a growth mindset while helping engineers unlock their potential. I take pride in identifying opportunties to simplify products and innovate go-to-market strategies that deliver unique customer value.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Engineering
eBay Inc
Bellevue, WA
12.2020 - Current
- Heading a new growth focused Shipping organization to modernize eBay's logistics platform , build international shipping programs, and deliver increased value to Shippers and Buyers.
- Led the development and launch of ebay's flagship platform Authentication Guarantee which led to > 21% in GMV for luxury and collectible items with a total revenue growth of 28%.
- Heading multiple worldwide shipping programs like PUDO and ebayPlus and successfully delivered on the strategy to expand PUDO shipping programs in UK and Germany and growth of eBayPlus membership sales in Australia by >30% by delivering key features.
- Developed a strong engineering culture within my organization to increase dev velocity , build engineering and operational excellence , eliminate tech debt and led to a rapid growth of the organization by doubling its size in < 2 years.
- Transformed my engineering teams to build platforms(rather than features) and Implement long-term strategies and gave long term direction to the organization on areas of investment and growth.
- Built a strong leadership team by hiring and growing managers to manage and hire top talent across shipping.
- Aligned the vision with top level executive leadership on product direction and initiatives.
Senior Development Manager
Amazon Web Services Inc
Seattle, WA
11.2019 - 12.2020
- Led multiple teams and managers under Amazon's largest cloud compute Capacity Management
- Platform EC2 to grow revenue and lead the vision of an optimized reservation management system which delivers reserved instances to customers globally
- Drove the vision for 2020-21 to plan strategic direction for the platform as well as investments (head count , growth areas) and working with leadership , TPMs , business and engineering partners and principal engineers to successfully define it
- Delivered a highly scalable capacity reservation program to optimize supply chain for capacity demands in EC2 compute
- Responsible for hiring and mentoring managers and senior devs
Principal Dev Manager
Microsoft
Redmond, WA
10.2011 - 11.2019
- Led development teams in PowerApps Organization to build a highly scalable asynchronous JOBS processing platform(aka web jobs) in Azure for a scale of > 1 million jobs/day
- Drove a culture of customer obsession and live site excellence by focusing on SAT and TTx metrics.We went from 0% self-detected live site issues to >90% self-detected and deliver 99.9% reliability across the entire fleet of services
- Led the architecture and delivery of a modern, Azure based set of micro-services to power support for the company. Shifting to this solution allowed us to decommission nearly 50% of the legacy on-premise systems while increasing our availability beyond 99.9% and reducing our
- Led the back end platform for Microsoft Support for its entire fleet of Microsoft products . This resulted in a $2.4M/year savings in operational costs while increasing the volume of chats by 150% and reducing our disconnect rate by 50%
- Worked with Microsoft Research (MSR) to incubate a virtual support agent and pilot in the US market.This was fully funded and is expanding to other markets as it has deflected over $5.2M of support costs per year
Senior Software Engineer
Regence Corp
SEATTLE
01.2008 - 09.2011
Software Development Lead
Tata Consultacny Services
06.2001 - 10.2007
Education
LNCT
IndiaSkills
Strategic planning
Timeline
Director of Engineering
eBay Inc
12.2020 - Current
Senior Development Manager
Amazon Web Services Inc
11.2019 - 12.2020
Principal Dev Manager
Microsoft
10.2011 - 11.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Regence Corp
01.2008 - 09.2011
Software Development Lead
Tata Consultacny Services
06.2001 - 10.2007
LNCT