Chirag Patel
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Scott Bedard
Chirag is a very experienced product development leader with an impressive knowledge of large scale product catalogs. But not just a large single product catalog, but one for a marketplace where there are so many variations in quality and pricing that it becomes quite a matrix of complicated data points. Chirag organizes his teams to match the desired architecture to make Conway's Law work for his team and offers plenty of room for his teams to be autonomous and take chances to solve problems in the best way they see fit while also keeping things within guard rails to prevent a Frankenstein monster. These are all skills that come with experience and a growth mindset, which Chirag posses both.
Jessica Shah
I had the great opportunity to work with Chirag; he is one of the extremely methodical, strategic and talented engineering managers I have ever worked with. Chirag brings with him a unique combination of strong engineering managerial skills along with strong business sense making him a great leader. Chirag will make a great engineering executive any day.
Scott Bedard
Chirag is a very experienced product development leader with an impressive knowledge of large scale product catalogs. But not just a large single product catalog, but one for a marketplace where there are so many variations in quality and pricing that it becomes quite a matrix of complicated data points. Chirag organizes his teams to match the desired architecture to make Conway's Law work for his team and offers plenty of room for his teams to be autonomous and take chances to solve problems in the best way they see fit while also keeping things within guard rails to prevent a Frankenstein monster. These are all skills that come with experience and a growth mindset, which Chirag posses both.
Jessica Shah
I had the great opportunity to work with Chirag; he is one of the extremely methodical, strategic and talented engineering managers I have ever worked with. Chirag brings with him a unique combination of strong engineering managerial skills along with strong business sense making him a great leader. Chirag will make a great engineering executive any day.
Scott Bedard
Chirag is a very experienced product development leader with an impressive knowledge of large scale product catalogs. But not just a large single product catalog, but one for a marketplace where there are so many variations in quality and pricing that it becomes quite a matrix of complicated data points. Chirag organizes his teams to match the desired architecture to make Conway's Law work for his team and offers plenty of room for his teams to be autonomous and take chances to solve problems in the best way they see fit while also keeping things within guard rails to prevent a Frankenstein monster. These are all skills that come with experience and a growth mindset, which Chirag posses both.
Jessica Shah
I had the great opportunity to work with Chirag; he is one of the extremely methodical, strategic and talented engineering managers I have ever worked with. Chirag brings with him a unique combination of strong engineering managerial skills along with strong business sense making him a great leader. Chirag will make a great engineering executive any day.
Scott Bedard
Chirag is a very experienced product development leader with an impressive knowledge of large scale product catalogs. But not just a large single product catalog, but one for a marketplace where there are so many variations in quality and pricing that it becomes quite a matrix of complicated data points. Chirag organizes his teams to match the desired architecture to make Conway's Law work for his team and offers plenty of room for his teams to be autonomous and take chances to solve problems in the best way they see fit while also keeping things within guard rails to prevent a Frankenstein monster. These are all skills that come with experience and a growth mindset, which Chirag posses both.
Jessica Shah
I had the great opportunity to work with Chirag; he is one of the extremely methodical, strategic and talented engineering managers I have ever worked with. Chirag brings with him a unique combination of strong engineering managerial skills along with strong business sense making him a great leader. Chirag will make a great engineering executive any day.
Experience
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Ebates
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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VP of Engineering
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2014 - Present
Leading overall engineering operation of organization to develop Global Big Data Platform that utilized by Rakuten business units across the globe to manage product catalog data. I am leading and mentoring development, QA and DevOps teams with around 100 engineers in USA, Singapore, and India. I am creating and deploying highly scalable platform using Big Data/Cloud technologies like Cassandra, Spark, Data Flow/Apache Beam, Serverless DB like Data Store, Elastic Search, Java, REST APIs, and… Show more Leading overall engineering operation of organization to develop Global Big Data Platform that utilized by Rakuten business units across the globe to manage product catalog data. I am leading and mentoring development, QA and DevOps teams with around 100 engineers in USA, Singapore, and India. I am creating and deploying highly scalable platform using Big Data/Cloud technologies like Cassandra, Spark, Data Flow/Apache Beam, Serverless DB like Data Store, Elastic Search, Java, REST APIs, and Google Cloud with focus to develop an accurate, structured product catalog with capabilities like product search, price compare, sales insights with hundreds of millions of products covering thousands of online retailers from various countries. My Key Accomplishments: • Led significant increase in click though and revenue by improving product search through delivery of catalog platform for Rakuten's flagship e-commerce site in Japan. • Improved and retained business growth by defining business vision and crafting partner strategies and roadmaps for Ebates group in cross-collaboration with C-level executives.. • Generated 75M+ yearly new sales in USA by establishing team and platform from scratch to build many consumer facing experiences. Show less Leading overall engineering operation of organization to develop Global Big Data Platform that utilized by Rakuten business units across the globe to manage product catalog data. I am leading and mentoring development, QA and DevOps teams with around 100 engineers in USA, Singapore, and India. I am creating and deploying highly scalable platform using Big Data/Cloud technologies like Cassandra, Spark, Data Flow/Apache Beam, Serverless DB like Data Store, Elastic Search, Java, REST APIs, and… Show more Leading overall engineering operation of organization to develop Global Big Data Platform that utilized by Rakuten business units across the globe to manage product catalog data. I am leading and mentoring development, QA and DevOps teams with around 100 engineers in USA, Singapore, and India. I am creating and deploying highly scalable platform using Big Data/Cloud technologies like Cassandra, Spark, Data Flow/Apache Beam, Serverless DB like Data Store, Elastic Search, Java, REST APIs, and Google Cloud with focus to develop an accurate, structured product catalog with capabilities like product search, price compare, sales insights with hundreds of millions of products covering thousands of online retailers from various countries. My Key Accomplishments: • Led significant increase in click though and revenue by improving product search through delivery of catalog platform for Rakuten's flagship e-commerce site in Japan. • Improved and retained business growth by defining business vision and crafting partner strategies and roadmaps for Ebates group in cross-collaboration with C-level executives.. • Generated 75M+ yearly new sales in USA by establishing team and platform from scratch to build many consumer facing experiences. Show less
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PayPal
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Engineering Leader
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2011 - 2013
As a Engineering Leader, I have spearheaded and mentored digital wallet consumer experience development teams that designed consumer facing PayPal web site for finance asset management (cash, cards, bank), money movement servicing (send/request money and invoicing), incentives (coupons, offers) management and credit product servicing as part of the consumer wallet. My Key Accomplishments: • Headed and completed projects within set time and budgetary constraints by executing Agile… Show more As a Engineering Leader, I have spearheaded and mentored digital wallet consumer experience development teams that designed consumer facing PayPal web site for finance asset management (cash, cards, bank), money movement servicing (send/request money and invoicing), incentives (coupons, offers) management and credit product servicing as part of the consumer wallet. My Key Accomplishments: • Headed and completed projects within set time and budgetary constraints by executing Agile methodology. • Supervised and trained team of over 30 engineers with 3 software development managers in USA and India to optimize operational proficiency. Show less As a Engineering Leader, I have spearheaded and mentored digital wallet consumer experience development teams that designed consumer facing PayPal web site for finance asset management (cash, cards, bank), money movement servicing (send/request money and invoicing), incentives (coupons, offers) management and credit product servicing as part of the consumer wallet. My Key Accomplishments: • Headed and completed projects within set time and budgetary constraints by executing Agile… Show more As a Engineering Leader, I have spearheaded and mentored digital wallet consumer experience development teams that designed consumer facing PayPal web site for finance asset management (cash, cards, bank), money movement servicing (send/request money and invoicing), incentives (coupons, offers) management and credit product servicing as part of the consumer wallet. My Key Accomplishments: • Headed and completed projects within set time and budgetary constraints by executing Agile methodology. • Supervised and trained team of over 30 engineers with 3 software development managers in USA and India to optimize operational proficiency. Show less
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Salesforce
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Director of Engineering
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2009 - 2011
In my role of Director of Engineering, I have overseen engineering teams of 35 engineers in USA and in India at Data Cloud Business Unit of Salesforce (Data.com/Jigsaw) including web site development team and BI to achieve productivity goals. I have managed Jigsaw.com development and operation to streamline workflow. My Key Accomplishments: • Secured double-digit data asset and revenue growth quarter over quarter by delivering various features. • Contributed and supported Salesforce's… Show more In my role of Director of Engineering, I have overseen engineering teams of 35 engineers in USA and in India at Data Cloud Business Unit of Salesforce (Data.com/Jigsaw) including web site development team and BI to achieve productivity goals. I have managed Jigsaw.com development and operation to streamline workflow. My Key Accomplishments: • Secured double-digit data asset and revenue growth quarter over quarter by delivering various features. • Contributed and supported Salesforce's acquisition of Jigsaw to ensure continuous process improvement. • Deployed agile methodologies for software development to assure on time delivery of projects. Show less In my role of Director of Engineering, I have overseen engineering teams of 35 engineers in USA and in India at Data Cloud Business Unit of Salesforce (Data.com/Jigsaw) including web site development team and BI to achieve productivity goals. I have managed Jigsaw.com development and operation to streamline workflow. My Key Accomplishments: • Secured double-digit data asset and revenue growth quarter over quarter by delivering various features. • Contributed and supported Salesforce's… Show more In my role of Director of Engineering, I have overseen engineering teams of 35 engineers in USA and in India at Data Cloud Business Unit of Salesforce (Data.com/Jigsaw) including web site development team and BI to achieve productivity goals. I have managed Jigsaw.com development and operation to streamline workflow. My Key Accomplishments: • Secured double-digit data asset and revenue growth quarter over quarter by delivering various features. • Contributed and supported Salesforce's acquisition of Jigsaw to ensure continuous process improvement. • Deployed agile methodologies for software development to assure on time delivery of projects. Show less
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Chegg Inc.
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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VP of Engineering
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2009 - 2009
As a VP of Engineering, I have overseen engineering teams of 40 engineers including QA and DevOps for textbook rental company (Netflix model) with ~1M customers. My primary responsibility was to evolve and maintain chegg's e-commerce site and back-end systems (data, payment, partner integration, fulfillment/warehouse, etc). My Key Accomplishments: • Redesign core system to scale 300% powering double digit revenue growth quarter over quarter • Growing team by 15 engineers in one year. As a VP of Engineering, I have overseen engineering teams of 40 engineers including QA and DevOps for textbook rental company (Netflix model) with ~1M customers. My primary responsibility was to evolve and maintain chegg's e-commerce site and back-end systems (data, payment, partner integration, fulfillment/warehouse, etc). My Key Accomplishments: • Redesign core system to scale 300% powering double digit revenue growth quarter over quarter • Growing team by 15 engineers in one year.
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Yahoo
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Information Technology and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Engineering Manager
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2003 - 2008
Yahoo Shopping & Audience Product Platform Group Worked to build platform from scratch to support catalog & content management capabilities for Yahoo properties like Shopping, Travel, Autos, Real Estate & Local. This includes Catalog management Systems for all known entities in US (products, autos, houses, businesses etc), classification platform (using machine learning and non-machine learning techniques), Attribute extraction platform and Document matching platform(to match objects). Yahoo Shopping & Audience Product Platform Group Worked to build platform from scratch to support catalog & content management capabilities for Yahoo properties like Shopping, Travel, Autos, Real Estate & Local. This includes Catalog management Systems for all known entities in US (products, autos, houses, businesses etc), classification platform (using machine learning and non-machine learning techniques), Attribute extraction platform and Document matching platform(to match objects).
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Accenture
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Ireland
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Engineering Manager
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2000 - 2002
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Mypoints.com
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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Director of Engineering
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1999 - 2000
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Oracle
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United States
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Warehousing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Manager
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1993 - 1998
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Education
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1992 - 1993
University of Southern California
MS, Computer Science -
1987 - 1991
Gujarat University
BS, Computer Engineering
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