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Mahesh Sharma

San Francisco Bay Area,USA

Summary

14+ years of experience building large, complex, full-stack web products of industry scale at Facebook and DoorDash. My strengths include building products end-to-end with speed, accuracy, and attention to detail in a cross-team, collaborative environment.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Software Engineer

DoorDash Inc
San Francisco, USA
08.2022 - Current
  • As Tech Lead for the Merchant Experience team, I build web and mobile products for merchants to manage their business on DoorDash.
  • Establish and manage engineering processes, including metric-driven engineering reliability reviews, technical ship reviews, retrospective reviews, and new hire onboarding.
  • Provide technical leadership through tech design reviews, roadmap reviews, code reviews, mentorship, and hiring.

Tech Lead

Meta Platforms (Facebook)
Menlo Park, USA
10.2017 - 08.2022
  • Architected and built a web-based video publishing platform, Facebook Creator Studio, from scratch, enabling video publishers to manage, monetize, and track content performance across Facebook and Instagram.
  • Led the Creator and Publisher Experience (CPX) team of 10+ engineers, helping define the team's vision and roadmap, setting goals, and breaking down large initiatives into actionable, smaller, milestone-based projects for fellow engineers.
  • Provided mentoring, coaching, and onboarding to over 20 engineers across multiple teams in the videos organization.

Member of Technical Staff

ThoughtSpot
Palo Alto, USA
02.2016 - 09.2017
  • Built several complex data visualization features, such as geo-maps and heat maps, for ThoughtSpot's search-driven analytics platform.

Senior Software Engineer

Meta Platforms (Facebook)
Menlo Park, USA
07.2012 - 02.2016
  • Developed several features for Facebook Pages, including Global Pages, Store Locations, and Page Management APIs.
  • Designed, built, and launched numerous Graph APIs across 8+ releases for external and internal developers.
  • Collaborating with PMs and EMs to define product roadmaps and launch plans.
  • Mentored engineers and new hires, fostering technical growth and collaboration.

Software Engineer

Directi
Gurgaon, India
06.2011 - 07.2012
  • Helped develop a real-time chat application for Windows Phone.
  • Helped build a unified chat platform that integrates Facebook, Gmail chat, and Talk.to (first-party chat service) in a single app.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication

University of Delhi
New Delhi
05-2011

Skills

  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • HTML, CSS
  • React
  • GraphQL
  • Redux / Flux
  • Java / Kotlin
  • C
  • PHP / Hack

Timeline

Staff Software Engineer

DoorDash Inc
08.2022 - Current

Tech Lead

Meta Platforms (Facebook)
10.2017 - 08.2022

Member of Technical Staff

ThoughtSpot
02.2016 - 09.2017

Senior Software Engineer

Meta Platforms (Facebook)
07.2012 - 02.2016

Software Engineer

Directi
06.2011 - 07.2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication

University of Delhi
Mahesh Sharma