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.
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.
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