Milind Shakya
Woodridge
Summary
Skilled Lead Software Engineer with a unique management and design style. Adept at executing development strategies and known for agile problem-solving. Tireless commitment in tackling unforeseen hiccups in software creation. Creative innovator excelling at finding novel approaches to time-worn problems. Proficient in leveraging colleagues and resources to combat everything from minor bugs to catastrophic software failures.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Software Engineer
Tripadvisor
New York
04.2020 - Current
- Responsible for technical oversight over core projects in addition to scoping, scheduling, planning and driving estimation for projects along with boosting team culture, morale and incremental development of everyone in the team.
- Led cross functional revenue optimization projects totaling over $10MM in incremental revenue.
- Team lead for a team of 6 engineers developing state of the art features for Tripadvisor Experiences business since 2023.
- Re-architected and implemented TA experiences Ask a question feature for Attraction and Attraction product pages.
- Led project to help customers translate owner responses for reviews.
- Critical role in helping integrate Tiqets.com to add incremental booking availability for under served experiences geos for TA attractions.
- Team Lead for the Menu Connect product in the hospitality-solutions org
- Instrumental in migrating singleplatform users from legacy billing platform (Aria) to Tripadvisor (Ormb)
- Critical role in integrating user menus to publishers like Google My Business and Facebook to Menu Connect Product
- Designed and implemented approach to decouple monolith and architect microservices to deliver value to rest of tripadvisor engineering teams
- Technical Leadership role spanning from code to design reviews, working closely with business stakeholders, mentoring engineers
- Tech: Java, microservices, Python3, Celery, Django, MySQL, AWS, docker, virtualization, jersey, react, next.js, graphQL, Javascript etc
Senior Software Engineer
Singleplatform
New York
09.2018 - 04.2020
- Company Overview: Singleplatform helps small businesses stand out by enhancing their listings on top search engines, travel and review sites and online directories used by over 200 million people to find local businesses
- Led and shipping new tech to help small businesses leverage singleplatform in a more intuitive way
- Led systematic adoption of python2 to python3 across existing codebases spanning multiple repositories
- Helped put proper engineering practices in place and introduced a new SDLC that considerably saved dev and QA time
- Tech: Python3, Celery, Django, Javascript, MySQL, AWS, docker, virtualization etc
- Singleplatform helps small businesses stand out by enhancing their listings on top search engines, travel and review sites and online directories used by over 200 million people to find local businesses
Senior Software Engineer
Noble Markets
New York
05.2018 - 08.2018
- Company Overview: High paced start up providing post trade services to OTC market including FX and digital currencies
- Key role in introducing healthy engineering practices and helped ship some new tech around cryptocurrency
- Tech: Python, Typescript, Tornado, Postgres, AWS, docker etc
- High paced start up providing post trade services to OTC market including FX and digital currencies
Senior Software Engineer
Cox Automotive
New Hyde Park, NY
10.2013 - 05.2018
- Instrumental in making existing tech more microservices based
- Implemented and maintained the multi-tenant framework for the F&I product suite
- Instrumental in streamlining the build and deploy process resulting in improved agility
- Tracked Tech debt and collaborated with product to prioritize with uniform lens
- Wrote various pre-commit scripts to maintain code quality across 10-15 different teams
- Senior Engineer responsible for design and development of critical modules for the F&I product suite
- Tech: Python2, .NET, Javascript, DB2, postgres, docker, vagrant, react, Django etc
Staff Software Engineer
Mutual Mobile
Austin, TX
05.2011 - 08.2013
- Owned and worked on various projects for enterprise clients where I was in charge of the API side of things
- Implemented RestFUL api which powered iOS, Android and Mobile Web applications for Mutual Mobile's clients
- Clients include - Verizon, Southwire, Mavenir
Software Engineer
Shoppity
Austin, TX
12.2010 - 05.2011
- Company Overview: Fast paced startup where prototyping and shipping MVP to consumers was a priority
- Co-designed and implemented the core framework of an offline to online e-commerce application
- Core IP was sold to a company called Inteliquent
- Fast paced startup where prototyping and shipping MVP to consumers was a priority
Skills
- Python
- Java
- Tech Lead
- graphQL
- SDUI
- Microservices Architecture
- Javascript
- Bash
- ZSH
- SQL
- Typescript
- HTML5
- Django
- Twisted
- Tornado
- Flask
- SQLAlchemy
- React
- Nextjs
- Postgres
- MySQL
- IBM DB2
- Redis
- Mongo
- Dynamodb
- Oracle
- POSTgis
- Sqlite
- IBM Datapower
- Mulesoft
- API Connect
- AWS Lambda
- S3
- Api Gateway
- Aws-sam
- Ec2
- Sns
- Team building
- Leadership
- Strategic Delegation Skills
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer
Tripadvisor
04.2020 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Singleplatform
09.2018 - 04.2020
Senior Software Engineer
Noble Markets
05.2018 - 08.2018
Senior Software Engineer
Cox Automotive
10.2013 - 05.2018
Staff Software Engineer
Mutual Mobile
05.2011 - 08.2013
Software Engineer
Shoppity
12.2010 - 05.2011