Vijaya Swamy
Software Development
San Juan,Puerto Rico
Summary
Seasoned software development professional looking to contribute as an individual contributor doing what I love best - coding and solving technical problems! I have had the experience of solving multitude of challenging technical problems for scale, performance and maintainability. I am a self-motivated individual with the ability to jump into new environments/products and get up to speed quickly.
Overview
40
40
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Sr. Engineering Manager
Workday
Pleasanton, CA
04.2015 - 06.2022
- Hired and mentored new team members
- Stabilization of weak areas of the product
- Owned technical roadmap for the product
- Delivered reengineered products to support scale for the LE market space
Director, Product Development
Smartzip
Pleasanton, CA
10.2014 - 04.2022
- Hired and trained off-site development and QA center in India
- Introduced Agile methodologies to the product team and streamlined development and testing
- Setup escalation policies and support staff to handle customer escalations
Director, Product Development
Recommind
San Francisco, CA
10.2011 - 10.2014
- Direct all phases of the software development life cycle including the requirements analysis, architecture design, development, testing, deployment and ongoing support for all web-based applications and services.
- Manage multi-location staff ranging to 25 FTE’s in addition to external contract team, spanning multiple parties including in house (San Francisco and Boston), onshore, near-shore and offshore vendors.
- Ensure effective policies and procedures are developed and maintained for the organization
- Played varied roles as needed (Product Owner/Scrum Master/Scrum Coach) for 3 Sprint teams developing the mission critical EDiscovery product and Connectors
- Direct the continual upgrading of software to maintain currency with technological progress, economic change and business needs.
- Ensures the training of staff members to develop their skills and maintain state-of-the-art knowledge in their area of responsibility
- Responsible for the selection and performance management of staff members
Sr. Engineering Manager
ZANTAZ, Inc
Pleasanton, CA
10.2004 - 09.2022
- Worked in sync with software developers, architects, support, customer directors, operations and product marketing to ensure that requirements are assessed, and specifications are developed and delivered in a reasonable time frame
- Laid the roadmap of the future of the company’s products teamed with product management leadership
- Hired a key team of engineers to build a core application engineering team to introduce stability to products
- Developed engineering for operatibility and uptime requirements; ideated on scalability and improvement
- Delivered a value-added service to customers by introducing a novel concept to the flag ship product
- Completed business re-engineering solutions for products acquired with acquisitions to meet new scale and volume needs
- Created a proactive environment with Product Marketing, Architects, QA, Support and Operations
- Requested and budgeted for resources to enhance efficiency and create a pleasant work environment
- Functional spec review, code review and bug review to track implementation and ensure progress
- Hands-on production support to stay close to the pulse of the product
Sr. Software Engineer
ZANTAZ, Inc.
Pleasanton, CA
03.2000 - 10.2004
- Development and implementation of Java software applications
- Designing software for scale and performance
- Coding, reviewing and testing of software applications as per established standards.
- Production support of application and meeting SLA requirements.
Education
Master of Science - Physics
Oakland University
Rochester Hills, Michigan 09.1991 - 06.1994
Skills
JAVA
undefinedTimeline
Sr. Engineering Manager
Workday
04.2015 - 06.2022
Director, Product Development
Smartzip
10.2014 - 04.2022
Director, Product Development
Recommind
10.2011 - 10.2014
Sr. Engineering Manager
ZANTAZ, Inc
10.2004 - 09.2022
Sr. Software Engineer
ZANTAZ, Inc.
03.2000 - 10.2004
Master of Science - Physics
Oakland University
09.1991 - 06.1994
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