Apurva HP
San Jose,California
Summary
A passionate Engineering Leader who loves to build and motivate an high-performing engineering team. Energetic and enthusiastic about developing deeper understanding of engineering designs and current technologies.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Manager
PayPal Inc.
San Jose
07.2020 - Current
- Managing mid sized teams across timezones to deliver high quality product solutions for leading donation platform - PayPal Giving
- Building a team environment that is collaborative, diverse and fun to work.
- Mentor and lead growth of software development team members while providing regular and constructive feedback and coaching as needed
- Driving deliverables for end-to-end team involving developers across platforms - web, backend and native ( iOS, Android)
- Involved in hiring great talent and onboarding them on to team
- Design, architect and implement complex platform development solutions and perform software code reviews
- Improved processes within team which has helped with developer productivity and execution
- Successfully launched multiple consumer facing product features and globalized them to all markets
- Suggesting improvements to our features and impact critical metrics for the consumer business with improving CTR, TPV, NNA
- Identify and make recommendations to reduce software project risks
- Build performance efficient, highly scalable, configurable, and available software systems
- Driving innovation forum for my organization and helping us build on next-gen ideas.
- Collaborate with product owners, software solution architects, user experience designers and other stakeholders across company to drive and execute vision for team
- Analyzing customer problems, identifying new opportunities and building requirements along with product team. Closely tracking KPI's and growth areas.
- Completed Emerging Leadership Program (ELP) within PayPal and constantly using every opportunity to learn from other great leaders.
Member of Technical Staff
PayPal Inc.
San Jose
01.2020 - 07.2020
- Tech lead at PayPal Giving, building and designing critical solutions for PayPal's fundraising platform using JavaScript, Node-JS, react-redux, Java technologies
- Worked on onboarding documentation for organization that helped ramp up all new joiners with ease.
- Launched Giving Product flows on new Digital wallet App for PayPal . This opened up multiple new entry-points as new source of traffic to multiple giving products, increasing TPV and Revenue
- Leading team through technical discussions and presenting end to end design and Architecture
- Experience with personalization and experimentation strategies
- Working with product, design, analytics, and other stakeholders using agile methodologies to deliver quality solutions on time.
Software Engineer
PayPal Inc.
02.2016 - 01.2020
- Building performance efficient, highly scalable full stack front-end applications using latest web stack
- Working closely with Native and Backend teams understanding system design end to end
- Contributed and inner sourced to many common repositories at PayPal in multiple domains
- Collaborating and Executing as scrum master and meeting all deliverables in agile environment.
Software Engineer Intern
PayPal Inc.
06.2015 - 08.2015
- Successfully built a prototype of RESTful search functionality in JAVA using Elastic-search which is now full-blown service that PayPal and many partners are consuming.
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2011 - 12.2013
- Worked as Windows Server and Application engineer
- Building and monitoring virtual servers
- Windows08 Administration on ADDS
- Troubleshooting Microsoft exchange server, Outlook, Citrix client, Mainframe, SCCM Server migration activities, packaging application, deployment
- Acquired ITIL v3 foundation certification.
Internship
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
07.2010 - 08.2010
Education
Master of Science - Software Engineering
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA01.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology
Bangalore, India06.2011
Skills
- Leadership : People management, Project Management, Emerging Leadership Program, Mentorship, Coaching, Budgeting and Resource Management, Process Improvement and Quality Assurance, Tech Lead, Hiring, Scrum Master, Design, Architecture
- Technologies: JavaScript, Java, jQuery, ReactJS, Redux, HTML5, CSS, Nodejs, Express, AngularJS, AWS, Python
- Database: MySQL, DB2, MongoDB, Hadoop, Oracle, Redis Cache, Elasticsearch
- Tools: Kibana, Observability, Splunk, SignalFX, Datadog, GitHub, Tableau, Elasticsearch
Timeline
Engineering Manager
PayPal Inc.
07.2020 - Current
Member of Technical Staff
PayPal Inc.
01.2020 - 07.2020
Software Engineer
PayPal Inc.
02.2016 - 01.2020
Software Engineer Intern
PayPal Inc.
06.2015 - 08.2015
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2011 - 12.2013
Internship
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
07.2010 - 08.2010
Master of Science - Software Engineering
San Jose State University
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology