Vinay Gopal
San Jose,CA
Summary
Accomplished Senior Engineering Manager with more than 18 years of comprehensive experience, including 8 years in leading the architecture, development, and roadmap and personnel of diverse organizations. Expertise in team direction and technology strategy, architecture and development of scalable software solutions, architecture design decisions, team coaching, mentoring, and support, scrum team member participant, and on-time and high-quality project delivery.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Engineering Manager (UI/UX)
Gigamon Inc
02.2021 - 05.2023
- Manage globally distributed team of 20 senior level engineers
- Lead UI development, optimize and build complex workflows for cloud platforms such as VMWare, OpenStack, AWS, GCB, GCP and Azure
- Worked as hands on manager to support UI migration (Angular to React)
- Improved UX workflows and optimize performance across all UI products.
Senior Software Engineering Manager/Senior Principal Web Engineer, Digital Engineering
Western Union Inc.
11.2016 - 12.2020
- Manage globally distributed team of 25 junior to senior level engineers
- Lead international expansion and expand B2C website to 50+ countries
- Lead UI development and integration of international partners and banks, adding $50M in revenue
- Worked as hands on manager and build unique solutions to migrate applications to AWS (Cloud Formation), build Javascript SDKs for partners and improved deployment solutions for UI stack
- Lead automation of Infosec approval process across all teams.
Senior Software Engineering Manager (Front End) | Senior UI Lead, Digital Products and Services
DexMedia Inc (YP.com)
08.2014 - 09.2016
- Manage globally distributed team of 12 junior to senior level engineers
- Lead UI development/migration of B2C website
- Redesigned website to support responsive solutions, resulting in improved traffic and revenue
- Designed unique ad click solution generating $5M in revenue
- Worked extensively with product owners to support A/B testing and SEO optimizations
- Recognized by EVP and CTO for creating impact on consumer websites.
Senior UI Lead, QuickBook Division (Contract)
Intuit Inc.
04.2014 - 08.2014
- Lead the UI development of Quickbooks division
- Design and develop javascript solutions for Ruby backend services.
Lead UI Developer, Full Stack, (AOS) – Online Store Engineering/Tools (Contract)
Apple Inc.
12.2012 - 04.2014
- Refactor and redesign online store applications (Gepetto and Metadata Manager)
- Integrate store applications with various product tools.
Technical Specialist, Eligibility & Benefits, Claims, Membership Administration
Delta Dental of California
04.2008 - 10.2012
- Refactor and migrate B2C website using Oracle ADF task flows, Portlets and Spring MVC framework
- Maintain the site, performance tune and improved access for heavy traffic usage (24M enrollees)
- Design and develop online provider directory for faster lookup of dentists across the country.
Technical Lead - Wire Transfer, Image Positive Pay, Treasury Information Reporting
Wells Fargo Bank
04.2007 - 04.2008
- Design and develop Web Services using SOAP, WSDL and AXIS framework
- Develop solution to display system outages using JMS/BEA weblogic 9.2
- Integrate front-end application using STRUTS and SPRINGS framework
- Developed game-plans for production installs for distributed teams.
Education
Master of Science (MS) - Mechanical Engineering
Iowa State University
Ames, IA08.2004
Bachelor of Science (BS) - Mechanical Engineering
PES Institute of Engineering
Bangalore, India04.2000
Skills
- Develop and launch B2C and B2B products serving global audiences
- Create Desktop & Mobile SPA Web apps
- Deliver high-traffic, distributed and scalable full-stack web applications
- Build high performing UI (Angular/React)
- Code in JavaScript, Java, Node JS
- Conduct Performance Tuning using Dynatrace, New Relic, JProbe
- Conduct A/B tests and SEO optimizations
- Build and deploy cloud web applications (AWS, GCP and Azure)
- Deliver product roadmap goals, form and grow high performance teams
- Spearhead Iterative development for growth & monetization
- Lead large and globally distributed agile teams, SAFe trained
- Possess exemplary communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
Timeline
Sr. Engineering Manager (UI/UX)
Gigamon Inc
02.2021 - 05.2023
Senior Software Engineering Manager/Senior Principal Web Engineer, Digital Engineering
Western Union Inc.
11.2016 - 12.2020
Senior Software Engineering Manager (Front End) | Senior UI Lead, Digital Products and Services
DexMedia Inc (YP.com)
08.2014 - 09.2016
Senior UI Lead, QuickBook Division (Contract)
Intuit Inc.
04.2014 - 08.2014
Lead UI Developer, Full Stack, (AOS) – Online Store Engineering/Tools (Contract)
Apple Inc.
12.2012 - 04.2014
Technical Specialist, Eligibility & Benefits, Claims, Membership Administration
Delta Dental of California
04.2008 - 10.2012
Technical Lead - Wire Transfer, Image Positive Pay, Treasury Information Reporting
Wells Fargo Bank
04.2007 - 04.2008
Master of Science (MS) - Mechanical Engineering
Iowa State University
Bachelor of Science (BS) - Mechanical Engineering
PES Institute of Engineering
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