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Jai Singh
Director Of Software Engineering
Sammamish,WA
Summary
Innovative and customer focused Director of Engineering with over 25 years developing and applying new technologies to deliver exceptional final products. Combines technical engineering capability with effective management techniques. Dedicated to driving rapid, advanced product development through meticulous oversight of junior staff and hands-on participation.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Director of Engineering
PayPal Inc.
11.2022 - Current
- Leading multiple engineering teams supporting Global Compliance, Internationalization and Localization framework, platform and services
- Managing engineering team of 50+ including Sr. Managers, Architects, vendors across US, India, Mexico and China
- Solving Data Quality, Governance and Compliances issues across all PayPal products in partnership with Legal and Fraud Prevention teams.
- Enabling PayPal Product via providing custom SDK for Internationalization, Content Management System, Customized Notification Platform, Localization workflow, Legal and Compliance process automation. Increased adoption of these solutions across PayPal and its subsidiaries
- Established architecture vision for next 2-3 years via Book of Engineering
- Tech stack includes Node.js, React.js, Typescript, Java, GCP
Director of Engineering
Compass Inc.
07.2021 - 11.2022
- Led multiple engineering teams supporting Video Platform, CMA, Market Insights, Search Platform, Map Search
- Managed team of 35+ including Principal engineers, Managers, across India and US
- Built rich Video Platform that allowed content creation, management, and integration for digital marketing
- Managed Search services for Agents and Consumers for listings and maps
- Improved CMA and Market Insights that provides agents to Win the Listing
- Set architecture and engineering vision for products
- SRE, Live Site, DevOps, Scalability, Engineering Excellence.
Principal Engineering Manager
Microsoft Corporation
05.2018 - 06.2021
- Led multiple engineering teams in Microsoft Stream building Enterprise Video solutions for Office365 customers (20M+ MAU) including Accessibility, SRE, Privacy, Security, Live Site
- Led building new offshore team of 30+ engineers and first level Managers
- Drove Information Governance for Office Compliance
- Drove integration of Stream products into partner systems such as MS Teams and SharePoint to increase user engagement
- Built interactivity features to increase customer engagement in EDU space – Face Recognition, Video transcripts, Analytics
- Supported high quality Video Playback for excellent user experiences
- Improved Enterprise Search capability to increase Stream MAU
- Engineering Culture champion in the organization to improve developer experiences.
Director, Application Development
Getty Images Inc.
11.2013 - 05.2018
- Led multi-million-dollar projects that include Digital Asset Management, Media Publicity/Distribution Management Systems, Custom Content Delivery and Enterprise Data Analytics Platform
- Technical leadership, product roadmap and delivery, resource management, technology budgets, vendor management
- Built V1 customer facing products and enterprise system
- Led multiple discipline team between Seattle and offshore – Managers, Technical Leads, Engineers, Architects, Product Owners, Operations
- Managed 24x7, world-wide, customizable, multi-tenant system
- Used SCRUM, Kanban style SDLC for features delivery.
Software Technical Lead in Ads Platform
Facebook Services, Inc.
04.2013 - 10.2013
- Facebook’s Atlas product (acquisition from Microsoft) provides Third-party Ad serving capabilities to Agencies and Advertisers generating multi-million-dollar revenue
- Team Size: 5+ engineers
- Led Atlas Search platform to manage Search Engine Ads click-tracking and ROI using WCF, C#, SQL
- External Partner integration on user workflow and system workflow by developing WCF APIs
- BI Reporting and Analytics using Hive.
Development Manager in Display Ads Platform team
Microsoft Corporation
04.2005 - 04.2013
- Display Ads Platform team provides solutions to monetize Display Ads business for Microsoft properties and syndicated partners
- The system serves over 15 billion impressions per day which contributes to about $2 billion in revenue for the company
- Team size: 30 engineers – onshore and offshore, providing technical leadership and performance management
- Led multiple end-to-end projects for the platform dealing with complex workflows, OLTP systems, with scale and performance
- Led development of new platform using Windows Azure
- Built Reporting system, Data Warehouse using Microsoft SQL Server
- Worked with Program Managers, Product Planning team on features, vision, and strategies
- Various technologies and programming languages such as C#, ASP.NET, SOAP, Web Services, WCF, OLTP databases, T-SQL, SQL Replication, Security tools, Unit Testing, Performance Testing, SCRUM/Agile development and more
- Experience with SOA, ESB, EDA, Windows Azure, TDD, Scenario Focused Engineering.
Application Developer/Technical Lead in Law and Corporate Affairs IT
Microsoft Corporation
09.1999 - 04.2005
- LCA-IT provides IT solutions to Microsoft’s LCA team to manage their Litigation, Patents, Anti-Piracy practices
- Technical lead creating and managing various applications – Litigation Support Tool, Matter Management, Non-Disclosure Application, Strategic Intellectual Asset Management application, Anti-Piracy application
- Created Reporting System using SQL Service Reporting Services, Crystal Reports, end-to-end user workflow by working on various complex UI, Middle-tier, OLTP systems
- Collaborated with multiple vendors teams onshore and offshore
- Owned managing and developing offshore team to transition the project
- Worked with Program Managers and Business Analysts on solutions
- Evaluations of competing applications, solutions, and products in the industry
- Worked on ASP, HTML, COM+, VB 6.0, SQL, ADO, ActiveX controls, XSL/XSLT, Enterprise Services, Windows Services, C#, .NET Framework, WinForms, Web Services.
Education
Diploma in Computer Application -
01.1995 - 12.1997
Bachelor of Computer Science -
06.1993 - 06.1996
Skills
Creating Fastest Path to Value
Caring for people and building high performing teamsManaging SaaS Business Applications and Enterprise SolutionsClient-focused, entrepreneurial, and agile mindsetPersonal Qualifications
An ambitious and versatile professional with over 25 years of experience and proven abilities in technical and management leadership, leading agile projects, and large teams. Accomplishments include leading multi-million-dollar projects and managing large cross functional teams.
Interests
Timeline
Director of Engineering - PayPal Inc.
11.2022 - Current
Director of Engineering - Compass Inc.
07.2021 - 11.2022
Principal Engineering Manager - Microsoft Corporation
05.2018 - 06.2021
Director, Application Development - Getty Images Inc.
11.2013 - 05.2018
Software Technical Lead in Ads Platform - Facebook Services, Inc.
04.2013 - 10.2013
Development Manager in Display Ads Platform team - Microsoft Corporation
04.2005 - 04.2013
Application Developer/Technical Lead in Law and Corporate Affairs IT - Microsoft Corporation
09.1999 - 04.2005
NIIT Ltd. - Diploma in Computer Application,
01.1995 - 12.1997
Delhi University - Bachelor of Computer Science,
06.1993 - 06.1996