Manoj Gadhiya

Rippling is everything you need to run a global workforce.

• Leading Integrations Platform team to revolutionize how Rippling integrates to any service provider in the world
• Delivered 33% YoY sustained ARR growth by simplifying software stack, increasing integration velocity, reducing TCO, and delivering features to reduce churn.
• Built multiple 0-1 products (Developer Platform, Enterprise APIs) to unlock opportunities to win enterprise customers and improve win rate for the deals
• Reduced the issue/customer >45% by strategizing with PMs to reduce the technical debt and sponsoring larger initiative to stabilize the existing integrations
• Leading a high performing distributed team of 35+ organized as Integrations, Data Platform, and Market Place teams at Rippling.

Unity Technologies is a RT3D video game software development company with $1.1B+ revenue and employs over 8k+ people. Hand-selected by the SVP of AI at Unity to build a data-driven culture at Unity.

• Established Unity Data Strategy, and delivered a Streaming Data Platform for all business units at Unity.
• Managed a comprehensive suite of data products driving data-driven decisions and managing e2e Data Lifecycle Management plus built an ML Platform from scratch to drive Data and ML innovation for a $1B+ Unity Ads business.
• Scaled Streaming Data Platform for Unity Ads ingesting 100B+ events/day to curate a data lake for downstream analytics. Took the platform ML workload processing from 3-6 GB/s to 12-15 GB/s for model training while achieving 99.99% uptime.
• Reduce MTTD by 80% for all incidents and achieved an MTTR of
• Delivered Kafka-as-a-service and ML Platform to build 80+ streaming applications and productionalized 100+ ML models for a $600M User Acquisition and Targeting platform.
• Managed $16 M+ in an operating budget, and delivered a 30% reduction in cost per unit saving $3M+ in
• Grew the team from 4 engineers to an organization of 35 Software Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers, and ML Engineers distributed across SF, Vancouver, Montreal, and Copenhagen.
• Managing a total of 6 direct reports, including 3 Frontline Managers, 1 Sr. Manager, and 2 Staff engineers.
• Coached and promoted all frontline managers, and 2 staff engineers, plus hired and mentored a senior leader.
• Achieved 16% increase in employee engagement score, 5% higher than other teams.
• Operational excellence and process improvement highlights include:
• Implemented location strategy to support global stakeholders in local time zones, reducing on-call shifts by 50% through rotation and hand-offs.
• Improved Agile maturity, increased team velocity by 12% through efficient focus hours & reduced distractions. Implemented an effective communication plan with simple channels.
• Introduce Strimzi - open source Kafka package to run on K8S to scale Kafka infrastructure and also reduce the OPEX by $2.1m over 3 years by deprecating Confluent Kafka (a paid platform).
• Introduced Protobuf to reduce the event size per message by 30% and improve the data contract between producers and consumers eliminating the need for DLQ efforts.

Machine Zone, Inc. (MZ) is a mobile game development company that pioneered the MMORPG Game genre with Game of War, the first game to ever deliver $1B+ in gross revenue.

• Delivered 30% YoY revenue growth using Data and ML solutions to engage and retain high-value game players.
• Enabled ML-driven decision-making for GameOps to manage revenue streams in RT and delivered NLP-driven insights to drive 12% player growth for MMORPG games bringing >1B+ in revenue.
• Led Data Science and Platform Engineering team of 20+ including Data Platform Engineers, MLE, NLP Data Scientists, and Data Analysts.
• Managed a total of 6 direct reports, including 2 Managers and 4 Sr. Engineers.
• Coached a Data Analyst for the management track and grew another Senior NLP Engineer to become a manager.
• Delivered data platform, engineering, analytics, ML Ops, and infrastructure capabilities to teams responsible for supporting multiple game titles with over $3B in lifetime revenue.
• Delivered operational cost savings of >$2M in the first year by delivering open-source FQL (federated query layer) using Presto, deprecating expensive vendor solutions.
• Established a product-driven technology strategy and delivered a recommendation engine for personalized IAP packages that delivered >3% lift in revenue and automated features to run multiple experiments.
• Delivered multiple Ads data products to calculate and improve LTV and ROAS by 3.5% for the Demand Side Platform.

Managed Ad Server and Applications quality team, one of the fastest growing services businesses (30% YoY) under the Apple umbrella. Joined a start-up like environment in 2012 and delivered core ad serving, core services, and application capabilities to drive business growth from 13M loss to 20M+ in revenue YoY thru continued innovation in News Monetization Platform and Search Ads Analytics platform.

• Delivered core Ads Engine to monetize News content and closed $100M revenue deal by providing e2e solutions and engineering leadership, collaborating across Ads Platform and News teams.
• Built strategy for Apple News monetization and delivered back-end features like budget pacing, targeting, blacklisting, programmatic APIs, and user personalization with highest quality, contributing directly to the launch of $1B search ads business and target expansion to 120 countries.
• Orchestrated a major initiative to stabilize the analytics platform and implemented a long-term technology strategy to prevent future issues. Stabilized platforms within 6 months and substantially enhanced Publisher satisfaction.
• Built strong relationships across organizational silos to deliver iOS integrations through prioritization and delivered 22% productivity gains.