Rahul Sakdeo
San Jose,CA
Summary
A dedicated, passionate, and accountable Engineering Manager with 8+ years of management experience and strong leadership skills in establishing vision & strategy, agile software processes, building partnerships and collaboration, and hiring & coaching/mentoring teams. Highly organized and detail-oriented with a proven record of building
high-performance teams and strong relationships. A leader who inspires through motivation, examples, and support to achieve impactful goals for the company. 25+ years of experience in designing, developing, and testing enterprise business and consumer applications using software engineering best practices to achieve business objectives.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Apple Maps
01.2020 - Current
- Led efficacy of Search services evaluation to 95%.
- Established a team that put together an evaluation methodology for ML-based systems
- Led divergent teams across Apple for multiple important projects.
Software Engineering Manager
Apple Maps
01.2018 - 01.2020
- Managed a team of strong software engineers to evaluate map services.
- Defined evaluation metrics to track product success
- Successfully created and executed plans for transitioning all map services to release daily
- Defined and currently executing on Hands-free Service Sign offs
Senior Software Engineer
Apple Maps
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Quality Evaluation DRI for a stealth project
- Create/Evaluate/Prototype different automation frameworks/processes which will be used when the project is launched
- Created an evaluation strategy for ever changing data and code
- Evaluation DRI for a mission critical (single point of failure) service for Apple Maps
- Automated/Signed off the mission critical service ahead of time and launch way ahead of schedule.
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
02.2015 - 12.2015
- Project lead for Validation of Universal PowerPoint client for both desktop and Mobile
- Analyzed and Fixed Watson crashes and other issues from Product Feedback/Telemetry
- Reduced the crash rate for the product from ~5% to ~1% and improved the Adjusted Customer Experience to (ACE)95%
- Created and drove a process to ship the clients monthly with confidence
- Successfully released Android Phone, Universal Desktop and Dogfood release of PowerPoint Mobile
- Worked on formalizing Evergreen process for Automation using data driven approach
Lead Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
02.2013 - 02.2015
- Responsible for managing and leading the new modern client validation team for PowerPoint
- Represented the team and project in ship rooms and monthly senior management service reviews (audience was Directors/VPs)
- Architected the x-Plat automation strategy to be used modern clients which was successfully re-used for iOS and Android clients
- Successfully released iOS, Android and new Universal Client Beta
- Successfully managed a team of 12 engineers
Lead Senior Software Design Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
01.2011 - 01.2013
- Responsible for managing and leading the engineering team charter for SharePoint
- Designed a componentized library for SharePoint deployments which has now grown ~450 components and is used by SharePoint/WAC deployments all over the place
- Took the config reliability to >95% in the automation lab
- Worked on SharePoint server rename architecture for the daily build system, the code is being used by various other internal teams
Software Design Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
12.2005 - 01.2011
- Include Spec'ing, Designing and Developing test framework, task libraries, tools and systems that help make the job our testers easier
- Successfully owned features ranging from end user to developer to admin.
Escalation Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
10.1999 - 12.2005
- Handled high profile customer escalations in developer areas related to messaging and collaboration technologies like SharePoint, CDO, MAPI, WebDAV, Outlook Object Model, and Workflow
- Helped build tier 2 support organization GSC-Bangalore
- Participated onsite/offsite production debugging support
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
08.1996
Skills
- Mission Critical Applications
- Best Practices and Methodologies
- Restful API
- Service Quality
- Architectural Practices
- Programming Languages: Java, C#, Net, Python
- API Development
Timeline
Senior Software Engineering Manager - Apple Maps
01.2020 - Current
Software Engineering Manager - Apple Maps
01.2018 - 01.2020
Senior Software Engineer - Apple Maps
01.2016 - 01.2018
Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft Corporation
02.2015 - 12.2015
Lead Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft Corporation
02.2013 - 02.2015
Lead Senior Software Design Engineer - Microsoft Corporation
01.2011 - 01.2013
Software Design Engineer - Microsoft Corporation
12.2005 - 01.2011
Escalation Engineer - Microsoft Corporation
10.1999 - 12.2005
Osmania University College of Engineering - Master of Science, Computer Science
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