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BILAL CLARANCE

Berkeley,CA

Summary

Servant Engineering leader with a passion for data and skilled at driving efficiency and productivity through development, delivery and support of strategic plans. Dedicated to creating and delivering initiatives to guide organizational imperatives and objectives with use of modern technology. Proven history of successfully translating organizational strategic objectives into executable roadmaps. Strong proficiency in data at scale with a passion for utilizing excellent communication to foster company rapport and relationship building to facilitate culture and execution.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Engineering, Graph Serving

Google
Sunnyvale, CA
07.2022 - Current
  • Responsible for serving Google Knowledge Graph across 5 Google 1B+ user products and more.
  • Managing core Google distributed large scale Graph infrastructure (100s of billions of nodes)
  • Leading strategy and execution of Data Trust
  • Spearheading strategic planning, operational and tactical execution.
  • Leveraging professional networks and industry knowledge to strengthen client relationships across Google (Search, Youtube. Google DeepMind, Research, etc)
  • Demonstrating proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and build competent teams and leaders.
  • Change agent: navigating multiple initiatives across sub-pillar for adopting change and managing adapting to change.

VP of Privacy & Data Solutions Engineering

Capital One
San Francisco, CA
01.2021 - 07.2022
  • Successfully leading and mentoring 20+ engineering managers and directors. (In VP scoped role).
  • Supervised 120+ station engineering personnel.
  • Supporting enterprise initiatives for Privacy and Data Ethics, Data Sharing (ingress/egress), and Data Lifecycle Governance.
  • Managed performance and talent management.
  • Managed communications with internal and external stakeholders (Product, Enterprise Data Management, Line of Business Engineering leaders and teams).
  • Met all compliance, regulatory and audit milestones on time.
  • Supervised org budgets ranging from $10M to $15M.
    Led Culture and Retention efforts for Blacks in Tech nationally (10,000 total engineering org).

Sr. Director of Data Engineering

Capital One
San Francisco, CA
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Successfully led and mentored engineering managers and directors.
  • Led team of Data, Machine Learning and Full-stack engineers supporting Capital One's enterprise data management services.
  • Developed enterprise wide Data Lineage Solution, Real Time Event Processing Solution, Synthetic Data generation platform and Data (sensitive) detection solution supporting all data movement/transformations driven across all lines of businesses engineering teams in a cloud environment.
  • Oversaw employee progress, safety and project implementations.
  • Supervised 50+ station engineering personnel.
  • Oversaw and lead performance and talent management for VP level tech org.
  • Led recruiting efforts for Blacks in Tech nationally (10,000 total engineering org).
  • Managed communications with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Met all compliance, regulatory and audit milestones on time.

Software Engineering Manager

Apple Inc., One Apple Park Way
Cupertino, CA
11.2015 - 01.2019
  • Led distributed teams (US/India) at the Apple Online Store, Product Systems publishing environment.
  • Responsible for the data and service tier powering the online store at scale.
  • Team handled egress and ingress data feeds of product data for online store using message oriented architecture.
  • Built enterprise webapps for Product Management (PIM) purposes.

Lead Software Engineer

AOS Product Systems – Apple Inc., One Apple Park Way
Cupertino, CA
05.2013 - 11.2015
  • Designed, implemented and maintained Core Product Services for Apple Online Store.
  • Mentored engineers both technically and as part of a process improvement.
  • Designed and made continuous improvements on how Apple Online Store inducted and shared product catalog data with Apple and beyond (Google, Yandex, etc).
  • Oversaw architecture and design to speed up shipping quote propagation using event driven architecture.
  • Led migration of all services, apps and frameworks across Apple Online Store Engineering from subversion to git.
    Introduced behavior Driven Development as part of Agile practice.
  • Defined a Continuous Delivery Pipeline working with ThoughtWorks consultants.
  • Designed and led implementation of event driven architecture for partner platforms to share updates to product catalog.
  • Designed/Stabilized/Improved engine that feeds product data to search engine and Machine Learning team along with developing a client for easy consumption of this data.
  • Led effort in migrating all services/apps/frameworks to java 8.
    Defined REST standardization.

Software Engineer

AOS Platform – Apple Inc.
Cupertino, CA
06.2012 - 05.2013
  • Worked with Online Store Engineering teams to adopt new services and app platforms.
  • Promoted test-driven development, by defining proper unit-testing and worked with groups in the effort to move towards industry standards.
  • Worked with QA and engineering to decouple mass interdependency system architecture that allowed for mocking services and data in unit and integration tests.
  • Participated in team code reviews and architectural discussions.
  • Closely involved in migrating components of the store to the new platform (Spring 3.2, Servlet 3.0).
  • Expanded knowledge of modern technologies through self-education.
  • Led presentations on new and emerging technologies before the Online Store Engineering Team.

Lead Software Engineer

Ad.net
Century City, CA
10.2010 - 06.2012
  • Led and managed team of remote Engineers.
  • Owned RESTful middle layer implemented with Jax-rs, ORM Hibernate and front-end client side PHP/Zend application.
  • Developed and maintained advertising platforms for a global clientele requiring 24/7 uptime.
  • Standardized Agile environment as tech lead and SCRUM master for the entire tech team.
  • Optimized queries with native SQL using Spring JdbcTemplate and native hibernate to overcome HQL/JPA eager fetch issues across apps.
  • Online advertising industry enabling publishers and advertiser to setup and maintain campaigns LAMP stack and Spring 2 based API backend.

Software Engineer

Verifi, Inc
Los Angeles, CA
03.2010 - 10.2010
  • Designed, developed, tested, debugged, and deployed highly-available applications using at-the-time best-of-breed open source technologies in Agile environments (PHP and Ruby on Rails).
  • Delivered solutions for interesting performance problems and architectural challenges.
  • Took ownership of Hosted Payment Platform site in Ruby on Rails and RESTful PHP API utilizing legacy model layer.
    Full Life Cycle Software Development.
  • Performed peer code review and overall QA as software engineer.
  • Worked with product owners, developers and operations team to define new features.]

Software Engineer

Miscellaneous
Europe/Los Angeles
01.2006 - 03.2010
  • Worked for startups like Skinkers (London, UK), GetFugu (Los Angeles, US) and did consultant jobs for vacuous clients, personal and small business.

Education

BS - IDM Computer Science

Northwest Missouri State University

Skills

  • Leadership and team building
  • Strategic development
  • Market & Technology Insights
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Mentorship
  • Data and Web at Scale
  • Budget Management
  • Product development
  • Research & Development
  • Results Driven
  • Cloud computing
  • Communication

Interests

  • 2017 Winter Commencement Speaker at Northwest Missouri State University.
  • Hobbies: Traveling, Baking, Cooking, Basketball.
  • Reading great books.

Languages

Fluent in English, Danish, Swedish, Basic in Spanish, German.

Timeline

Director of Engineering, Graph Serving

Google
07.2022 - Current

VP of Privacy & Data Solutions Engineering

Capital One
01.2021 - 07.2022

Sr. Director of Data Engineering

Capital One
01.2019 - 01.2021

Software Engineering Manager

Apple Inc., One Apple Park Way
11.2015 - 01.2019

Lead Software Engineer

AOS Product Systems – Apple Inc., One Apple Park Way
05.2013 - 11.2015

Software Engineer

AOS Platform – Apple Inc.
06.2012 - 05.2013

Lead Software Engineer

Ad.net
10.2010 - 06.2012

Software Engineer

Verifi, Inc
03.2010 - 10.2010

Software Engineer

Miscellaneous
01.2006 - 03.2010

BS - IDM Computer Science

Northwest Missouri State University

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