Amod Matkar

Senior Engineering Manager at Yahoo Small Business
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San Jose, California, United States, US

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Experience

    • United States
    • Internet Marketplace Platforms
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Engineering Manager
      • Jun 2015 - Sep 2020

      Sunnyvale, California, United States Managed & built on top of the existing hosting & websites platform for small business customers which generates 35 million/yr USD in revenue. • Came up with an idea & entire technical design to provide an alternate stage environment for the hosting customers, to build their site without causing any downtime to their production site. Using the same feature helped the customers get on to the new tech stack. This helped the group to reduce churn & increase the customer base by 5%. • Was… Show more Managed & built on top of the existing hosting & websites platform for small business customers which generates 35 million/yr USD in revenue. • Came up with an idea & entire technical design to provide an alternate stage environment for the hosting customers, to build their site without causing any downtime to their production site. Using the same feature helped the customers get on to the new tech stack. This helped the group to reduce churn & increase the customer base by 5%. • Was solely responsible for technical design and architecture to serve the free websites without having to buy the domain. This enabled the group to introduce a free plan, with the existing serving platform, without any additional cost. And thus, increased the customer base by 10%. • Not only came up with an idea to integrate with the 3rd party new age responsive web editor, to take our product on a level playing ground with our competitors, but also worked on the entire integration process & API framework creation with the 3rd party IMC editor. • Overlooked the design and implementation of the feature which provided the free SSL certificate support to all our websites as well as web-hosting customers. • Managed bi-weekly scrums. • While managing 10 engineers, worked towards to get rid of 20-year-old tech debt, by redesigning/re-writing major parts of the C/C++ code to Java & moving the platform from BSD to RHEL. • Conducted tech council reviews, final product demos at the org level & managed quarterly road-maps with the product & marketing teams. • Worked towards increasing code coverage by at least 3%, month over month, managed releases, managed hiring, performance evaluation, one on ones, career growth of the team. • Also, was involved in hands-on coding using Java/REST/Jetty/Spring, code-reviews, data modeling, 3rd party integration, maintenance, managing security bugs, production bugs, outages, production support, manual deployment of packages to over 500+ hosting production servers. Show less

    • Ireland
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Sr manager
      • 2013 - May 2015

      Sunnyvale, California, United States Expertly managed Accenture’s engineering team to get Apple onto a faster tool to publish their software releases, as well led onsite & offshore teams at Equinix to help Equinix move its datacenters power management data onto a big data platform. • Worked with a team of 5 skilled engineers and account manager on fixing the design of seed tool application, to improve the performance 10-fold, using java multi-threading and REST APIs, which helped Accenture get its foothold in Apple. • While… Show more Expertly managed Accenture’s engineering team to get Apple onto a faster tool to publish their software releases, as well led onsite & offshore teams at Equinix to help Equinix move its datacenters power management data onto a big data platform. • Worked with a team of 5 skilled engineers and account manager on fixing the design of seed tool application, to improve the performance 10-fold, using java multi-threading and REST APIs, which helped Accenture get its foothold in Apple. • While managing a team of 12 members (onsite + offshore) designed & developed applications for Equinix, to move its power management related data from Oracle to Cassandra, using storm, RESTful services. Helped in Column family data modeling, data migration strategy and Cassandra set-up. • Arranged Cassandra training for offshore team. • Managed hiring, performance evaluation for Accenture and team. Show less

    • Technology Lead
      • Jul 2012 - Dec 2012

      • Worked as a technology consultant/architect for Deloitte to improve the performance of State of MA's enterprise invoice management & enterprise service management of health and human services application. • Interfaced with the various state agencies, providers to understand their technical issues and bottlenecks and suggesting design changes to better the user experience.

    • Sr Architect (AVP)
      • Apr 2011 - Apr 2012

      Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Helped secure Polaris a multimillion-dollar contract with Barclays bank, by spear heading the highly available/ high throughput messaging architecture for the bank, which automated payment decisions process for the bank. • Closely worked with the bank to understand its non-functional requirements and helped implement those NFRs, such 24x7 availability, database fail-over using dataguard, SOAK testing. • Worked as a technical architect to set-up a complete backend payment processing system… Show more Helped secure Polaris a multimillion-dollar contract with Barclays bank, by spear heading the highly available/ high throughput messaging architecture for the bank, which automated payment decisions process for the bank. • Closely worked with the bank to understand its non-functional requirements and helped implement those NFRs, such 24x7 availability, database fail-over using dataguard, SOAK testing. • Worked as a technical architect to set-up a complete backend payment processing system for Barclays bank. • Worked on the design of complex functionality such as cache in a cluster environment, ensuring no loss of transactions. • Worked also closely with QE team to help them devise proper testing strategy and to come up with the good test data. Show less

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 500 - 600 Employee
    • Principal Engineer
      • Apr 2010 - Jan 2011

      Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States • Worked closely with Aspect's R&D department on various java web services mainly to provision, send alerts for its unified communication applications for the contact center.

    • United States
    • Telecommunications
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Principal Engineer
      • Mar 2008 - Mar 2010

      Bengaluru, Karnataka, India • Worked as a Principal Engineer at Sonus Wesford,MA location for an year before moving to Bangalore. • Set up an entire team of 18 team members in Bangalore for the EMS group and mentoring them. • Re-designing the entire EMS UI application to make it more maintainable, consistent, faster and user friendly using JSF, AJAX.

    • United States
    • Telecommunications
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Sr Java/J2EE developer
      • Sep 2005 - Oct 2007

      Manchester, New Hampshire, United States • Worked on designing and architecting inventory synchronization system.

    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Java Consultant
      • Sep 2002 - Sep 2005

      Waltham, Massachusetts, United States • Worked at Verizon who was Adea client, as a senior Java lead on various telecom products such as Frame Relay, ATM, MEVs as well as domestic land line products, while leading a team of 7 members.

    • Senior Java Developer
      • Nov 2001 - Aug 2002

      Cincinnati, Ohio, United States • Worked as a senior Java developer for GE Capital card services.

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Java Developer
      • May 2000 - Oct 2001

      Portland, Oregon, United States • Worked on developing a Java Swing based application for Intel’s’ server control group.

    • United States
    • Information Technology & Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Software Engineer
      • May 1997 - May 2000

      Murbad, Maharashtra, India • Worked for Syntel as a consultant in various projects within India as well as in UK.

Education

  • University of Mumbai
    1992 - 1996

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