SHARMA SHANKAR ANANDANE
Dublin,CA
Summary
● AI/ML Systems Leadership: Led teams building Meraki AI Assistant and Cisco AI Canvas with 99.9% uptime for enterprise customers
● Observability & Monitoring: Architected MCP servers, agent systems, and OpenTelemetry (OTEL) logging for 500K+ network devices
● Full-Stack Development: React, Node.JS, TypeScript systems serving 3+ billion users and 1000+ physicians daily
● Quality Engineering: Increased E2E test coverage from 0% to 85%, preventing 200+ production incidents and saving 10,000+ engineering hours
● Cross-Platform Architecture: Migrated UI frameworks reducing code duplication by 70% across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger
● Performance Optimization: Reduced API response times by 45% through GraphQL optimization and A/B experimentation
● Automation & Testing: Built test infrastructure processing 50+ vehicle scenarios daily and automated 100+ test cases reducing manual effort by 80%
● Enterprise Scale: Designed monitoring solutions processing millions of telemetry events daily with LangSmith integration for LLM optimization
● Team Leadership: Managed 7 engineers across 3 time zones, mentored 5+ junior engineers, established Better Engineering practices
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineering Technical Leader
Cisco Meraki
08.2022 - Current
- Led team of 7 engineers across 3 time zones to own quality, performance & observability for Meraki AI Assistant and Cisco AI Canvas.
- Architected and maintained MCP (Model Context Protocol) server infrastructure for Cisco AI Canvas backend
- Implemented comprehensive observability stack using OpenTelemetry (OTEL) logs, traces, and metrics for Meraki AI Assistant
- Integrated LangSmith for LLM application monitoring, debugging, and performance optimization
- Performed Load Test using Locust to understand bottlenecks in system and fix them
- Created an evaluation pipeline for Meraki AI Assistant and Cisco AI Canvas to check the accuracy over time.
- Tech Lead for cloud monitoring for Catalyst devices team, architecting scalable monitoring solutions processing millions of telemetry events daily.
Staff Software IOV Test Engineer
Faraday Future
01.2022 - 08.2022
- Built test infrastructure processing 50+ vehicle test scenarios daily and real-time bug tracking system with Python Flask handling 10K+ test results.
- Architected automated testing pipeline reducing vehicle validation time by 60% and improving defect detection accuracy to 95%.
Sr. Software Engineer
Deepscribe Inc
12.2021 - 08.2022
- Maintained React-based medical scribe application serving 1000+ physicians daily and owned deployment process reducing release time by 50%.
- Built scalable backend systems using Node.JS, TypeScript processing 200K+ medical transcriptions daily with 99.8% accuracy.
Sr. Software Engineer
Meta (Facebook)
04.2017 - 12.2021
- Led Portal test infrastructure team of 5 engineers using ML to verify AI-powered camera technology.
- Designed & implemented profile picture cropping experience for Facebook and Instagram Android apps serving 3+ billion users (Family of Apps team).
- Architected cross-platform UI migration to Bloks framework affecting 3+ billion users, reducing UI code duplication by 70% across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger.
- Increased E2E test coverage from 0% to 85% across 10+ features, preventing 200+ production incidents and saving 10,000+ engineering hours annually.
- Led A/B experimentation efforts for Identity Syncing products serving 2+ billion users, collaborating with data scientists to optimize GraphQL performance reducing API response time by 45%.
- Mentored 5+ junior engineers and established Better Engineering practices across 3 product teams, improving code quality scores by 30%.
Software QA Engineer
Samsung Research America
12.2016 - 04.2017
- Automated 100+ Samsung Knox test cases reducing manual testing effort by 80%.
- Developed UI automation framework processing 1000+ daily test executions across 15+ Android device variants.
Sr. Stability Test Engineer
Motorola Mobility
03.2014 - 12.2016
- Implemented Git workflow for a team of 12 engineers and built memory leak detection tools identifying 95% of memory issues across 20+ Android device models.
- Led Carrier Certification for AT&T and Verizon achieving 100% compliance rate for 4 device launches, mentored 10+ engineers.
- Designed automated testing solutions processing 1K+ test cases weekly reducing manual testing time by 70%.
Test Engineer
Tekmark Global Solutions (Client: Motorola)
12.2010 - 03.2014
- Developed Appium automation scripts for 10+ Android device models and implemented UI freeze detection tools achieving 90% accuracy in identifying performance bottlenecks.
Education
Master of Computer Science -
Illinois Institute of Technology
01.2011
B.Tech - Computer Science
Pondicherry Engineering College
01.2009
Skills
Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript
Frontend: React
Backend: NodeJS, Expressjs, FastAPI, Flask, GraphQL, REST APIs
AI/ML & LLM: LangSmith, OpenAI APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent frameworks, LangChain
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
Observability: OpenTelemetry (OTEL), Prometheus, Grafana
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB
Testing & QA: Selenium, Appium, Jest, Pytest, Cypress, Load testing
DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes
Monitoring & Logging: ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab
Accomplishments
- Cross-Industry Leadership: Successfully led technical initiatives across 5 industries - Enterprise Networking (Cisco), Social Media (Meta), Healthcare (Deepscribe), Automotive (Faraday Future), and Mobile (Samsung/Motorola).
- Quality + Development Expertise: Unique combination of building production systems AND ensuring their reliability - from 3+ billion user platforms to AI-powered enterprise solutions.
- Scale Impact: Architected systems affecting billions of users while maintaining 99.9%+ reliability through comprehensive quality frameworks.
Timeline
Software Engineering Technical Leader
Cisco Meraki
08.2022 - Current
Staff Software IOV Test Engineer
Faraday Future
01.2022 - 08.2022
Sr. Software Engineer
Deepscribe Inc
12.2021 - 08.2022
Sr. Software Engineer
Meta (Facebook)
04.2017 - 12.2021
Software QA Engineer
Samsung Research America
12.2016 - 04.2017
Sr. Stability Test Engineer
Motorola Mobility
03.2014 - 12.2016
Test Engineer
Tekmark Global Solutions (Client: Motorola)
12.2010 - 03.2014
B.Tech - Computer Science
Pondicherry Engineering College
Master of Computer Science -
Illinois Institute of Technology
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