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LALIT CHAWLA

Austin,TX

Summary

Seasoned Engineering Manager adept at seamlessly integrating project technical aspects and making information relatable to non-technical personnel. Experienced leader and program manager with [Number]-year history in field. Clear communicator, decision maker and problem solver.

Overview

9
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

SaaraInc

VP of Engineering
08.2020 - 04.2022

Job overview

  • Led a team of 21 designers, engineers and analysts on strategy, roadmap, design, development, rollout and iteration across 9 platforms for 5K+ ecommerce stores
  • Drove new client project delivery scope, and timelines
  • Managed Scrum meetings of web development and mobile teams by leading technical project meetings, to help provide appropriate resource allocation for high priority assignments to achieve user >2x YoY, user adoption >80% WAU, engagement >45 min/day, CSAT >4/5
  • Fostered personal relationship with high value customers and worked closely with customer service team to balance customer requirements with engineering bandwidth to keep overall churn rate < 5

TPM

TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER
03.2020 - 08.2020

Job overview

  • Techstars – Remote
  • As the sole, of Techstars, Mentored 100+ startup founders of 30+ Techstars portfolio companies across 3 continents in user growth and finding product market fit
  • Developed a playbook for hiring, on-boarding and managing remote teams disseminated to 3K+
  • Techstars portfolio companies and set standard for remote work during and post-covid scenarios

Gradufund

Co-Founder & CTO
01.2019 - 01.2020

Job overview

  • Worked on closing complex sales, product strategy and delivery to 55 enterprise customers
  • Built and deployed overall service infrastructure utilizing Docker container, CircleCI, and several AWS stack focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling

CRON Systems

Engineering Manager
10.2016 - 12.2018

Job overview

  • Led a team of 16 data scientists and software engineers for 3 products leading to our first 50 enterprise customers, and $1.5M series A
  • Engineered real-time ETL data pipelines using SQL, Python, and Pandas to process and onboard raw client data to reduce manual workloads by 40

Letzchange

SR. BACKEND ENGINEER
04.2015 - 10.2016

Job overview

Favista Real Estate pvt. ltd

SOFTWARE ENGINEER
06.2013 - 04.2015

Job overview

Education

Reforge

Mastering Product Management, Spring 2023
05.2016

University Overview

University of Texas At Austin

Master of Science from Technology Commercialization
05.2023

University Overview

NSIT(Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology)

B.TECH from INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
06.2013

University Overview

Skills

  • Team Meetings

Certification

  • [Area of certification], [Company Name] - [Timeframe]

Timeline

VP of Engineering
SaaraInc
08.2020 - 04.2022
TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER
TPM
03.2020 - 08.2020
Co-Founder & CTO
Gradufund
01.2019 - 01.2020
Engineering Manager
CRON Systems
10.2016 - 12.2018
SR. BACKEND ENGINEER
Letzchange
04.2015 - 10.2016
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Favista Real Estate pvt. ltd
06.2013 - 04.2015
Reforge
Mastering Product Management, Spring 2023
University of Texas At Austin
Master of Science from Technology Commercialization
NSIT(Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology)
B.TECH from INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
LALIT CHAWLA