Hetang Shah
Livermore,CA
Summary
20 Years of Engineering experience including 10 years of Management experience
Engineering professional with a proven track record in leading high-performance teams and driving innovative engineering solutions. Known for fostering collaborative environments and achieving significant project milestones. Reliable and adaptable, with a focus on strategic planning and resource management.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Engineering
Navan Inc
02.2023 - Current
- Built Personal travel product from $0 revenue to 12M/year product.
- Built Rewards & Loyalty programs to drive adoption, customer engagement & bring additional revenue from hotel bookings.
- Improved customer satisfaction ratings with proactive communication, addressing concerns promptly, and seeking feedback for improvements.
- Developed high-performing engineering teams through strategic hiring, focused mentoring, and performance management initiatives.
- Grew existing client relationships through consistent communication and effective contact.
- Managing two engineering teams to deliver high value & impactful projects.
- Led successful product launches by coordinating multidisciplinary teams and ensuring timely delivery within budget constraints.
Sr. Engineering Manager
TripActions Inc.
04.2018 - 02.2023
- Company Overview: Company mission is to solve business travel and make it seamless
- Responsible for defining Hotel & Car experience for TripActions users
- Managing a team of twenty two brilliant web, Android, iOS & Backend engineers
- I am doing weekly 1:1 with reportees, and cross-functional partners
- Grew engineers team from six to twenty-two engineers and work very closely with recruitment, people(HR) & external sourcing partners
- Responsible for defining scalable architecture
- Architected localization in shopping experience and wrote python script to integrate with lokalise
- Built the mobile engineering team from the ground up
- Hire, mentor & coach junior engineers
- Company mission is to solve business travel and make it seamless
Engineering Manager
Fivestars Inc.
09.2016 - 04.2018
- Company Overview: Fivestars helps local business to track their loyal customer
- I had managed a team of twelve brilliant web, Android, iOS & Backend engineers
- I worked as scrum master and using Kanban for continuous delivery
- Architected & Built end to end merchant mobile app (Android & iOS) using influx DB, Kafka & spring boot
- I worked with product manager to defined team roadmap and OKRs
- I did 1:1s with reportees regularly
- Fivestars helps local business to track their loyal customer
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Lead Android Engineer
eBay Inc.
07.2012 - 09.2016
- Company Overview: eBay mission is to provide a global online marketplace where practically anyone can trade practically anything
- Led myEbay (post transaction) team to deliver features
- Prepared design documents to integrate with BFF (Backend for frontend) service
- Wrote modules from ground up and participated in improving app architecture
- EBay mission is to provide global online marketplace where practically anyone can trade practically anything
Sr. Software Engineer
FXPAL Inc.
08.2011 - 07.2012
- Company Overview: SkyDesk is business collaboration service
- This product offers services to customer like Mail, CRM, Calendar, Status Updates and Announcements
- Helped to developed Web & Mobile Application for SkyDesk
- Worked as individual contributor to achieve desired features
- Wrote modules from ground up and participated in improving app architecture
- SkyDesk is business collaboration service
- This product offers services to customer like Mail, CRM, Calendar, Status Updates and Announcements
Education
Master's - Computer Science
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA05.2012
Bachelors - Information Technology
Mumbai University
India06.2006
Skills
- Team leadership
- Innovative problem-solving
- Clear communication
- Collaborative skills
- Product delivery management
- Accountability
- Informed decision analysis
- Effective resource management
- Quality management
- Consumer feedback analysis
- Full stack development
- Android development
- Kotlin programming
- Experience with RxJava
- Experienced with Dagger2 framework
- Java programming
- Spring Boot development
- Experienced with Kafka messaging
- Proficient in MySQL queries
- Web development with JavaScript
Timeline
Director of Engineering
Navan Inc
02.2023 - Current
Sr. Engineering Manager
TripActions Inc.
04.2018 - 02.2023
Engineering Manager
Fivestars Inc.
09.2016 - 04.2018
Lead Android Engineer
eBay Inc.
07.2012 - 09.2016
Sr. Software Engineer
FXPAL Inc.
08.2011 - 07.2012
Master's - Computer Science
San Diego State University
Bachelors - Information Technology
Mumbai University
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