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Archit Soni

Pune

Summary

Engineering leader with 13+ years of industry experience. Skilled in product engineering, project management, working directly with stakeholders to gather requirements. Led team of 20 fantastic engineers, 2 engineering managers and 3 team leads. Responsible for high quality product building. I have been member of commando teams in almost all my companies, where results were expected yesterday.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Technology

MarketCast India Pvt Ltd.
01.2022 - Current
  • Led development across 4 high impact products over 3+ years (Survey Builder, Analytics Platform, Ad Effect Express, Brand Effect Pro), driving $10M in revenue growth.
  • Hired and scaled engineering team from 4 engineers to 35 engineers – A mix of full stack and data engineers, and principal software engineers.
  • Simultaneously managed 4 cross-functional product teams, overseeing all phases from conception to delivery.
  • Responsible for design and architecting data platform and applications.
  • Collaborated directly with SVP and CTO to define product strategy and create quarterly product roadmaps.
  • Implemented AWS optimization initiatives resulting in $500K annual cost reduction while maintaining performance.
  • Ensure high scalability and availability of data and applications.
  • Led AI integration initiatives to enhance product capabilities and competitive advantage.
  • Led stakeholder requirement gathering to agree on objectives and key results, at both on-shore and off-shore.
  • Regular check-ins with the team to listen to them, mentor them and plan according to their personal goals.

Lead Consultant

TIBCO Software
06.2018 - 01.2022
  • Lead Data Engineer at TIBCO for Mercedes AMG Formula One Team – Unified Data Analytics and Improvements project.
  • Developed an analytics data platform for Mercedes F1 team to get data from a unified source for data analysis. This led to faster insights deliveries and better cross department collaboration.
  • 10 GB of data processed over weekend to power insights using AWS (Lambda, S3, EMR, Batch) and TIBCO Spotfire (for data visualization).
  • Cost benefit of $15M per year.

Data Visualization Engineer

General Electric Digital
09.2016 - 01.2018
  • Led a team of 3 developers to build dashboards for GE Aviation Supply Chain.
  • Created an extra mile project – Weather app using Talend ETL and displayed data in Spotfire dashboard and linked with logistics data to predict shipment delays of inventory within USA.
  • Created a consolidated dashboard by joining data from different sources, so that insights can be made available in a smooth manner.
  • Automated dashboards helped save $10M in costs.

Associate Projects

Cognizant
03.2015 - 09.2016
  • Lead Data Visualization Engineer for TriZetto Provider Solutions (acquired by Cognizant in 2015).
  • Migrated all legacy SSRS reports to Spotfire.
  • Developed automated dashboards for multiple departments (Payments, Finance, Data Platform) using the full feature set of Spotfire, enabling fast access to data without relying on traditional methods of reporting.
  • Cost benefit of 10MM GBP.

Consultant

HCL Technologies
09.2014 - 03.2015
  • Worked as a software engineer for Common Wealth Bank of Australia’s Global Mandatory Data Standards project.
  • This project was used to do a reconciliation on all destination tables ensuring that there is no deviation in the ETL pipelines, if a deviation was found, an email was then triggered to the leads to look into the alert.
  • Used TIBCO Business Works 5, SQL Server, and SOAP UI.
  • Used TeamCity for CI/CD and Jira for ticket management.

Consultant

Allstate India Pvt Ltd.
05.2014 - 09.2014
  • Unix and Layer 7 backend developer
  • Responsible for application migration and maintenance on on-prem Unix servers.
  • Responsible to add API masking using Layer 7 while deploying applications.

Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2012 - 05.2014
  • Developed various Unix scripts to monitor applications, scan logs and send alerts as email.
  • Wrote SQL stored procedures for application development team.
  • Responsible for application migration and maintenance of on-prem Unix servers for Deutsche Bank.

Education

B.Tech - Information Technology

Gautam Buddh Technical University
07-2011

Skills

  • Technical program management
  • Cross team collaboration
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • AWS
  • Bias for action
  • Methodical approach towards solving a problem

Timeline

Director of Technology

MarketCast India Pvt Ltd.
01.2022 - Current

Lead Consultant

TIBCO Software
06.2018 - 01.2022

Data Visualization Engineer

General Electric Digital
09.2016 - 01.2018

Associate Projects

Cognizant
03.2015 - 09.2016

Consultant

HCL Technologies
09.2014 - 03.2015

Consultant

Allstate India Pvt Ltd.
05.2014 - 09.2014

Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2012 - 05.2014

B.Tech - Information Technology

Gautam Buddh Technical University
Archit Soni