Gautam Kumar
Hyderabad
Summary
Product development executive with over 14 years in various sectors (web search, online ads, storage). Proven track record of heading projects, showcasing skills in technical oversight, teamwork, and managing engineers. Strong technical foundation with widespread involvement in coding, peer review, and troubleshooting in a live environment. Committed to nurturing a constructive team culture by involving in hiring, mentoring and onboarding new talents.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Software Engineer (Team Lead)
Bing, Microsoft IDC
05.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: Sports Segment: Leading a team of 6-7 developers primarily focused on backend operations for Sports experiences. Sports team offers diverse experiences for fans worldwide, featuring major tournaments in over 10 sports and user interfaces for live and recorded matches.
- Enabled ML based triggering, which helped us to improve coverage.
- Created infra-structure for MITs, it helps to measure quality of upcoming Major events.
- Successfully managed experiences for multiple mega-events like Superbowl, IPL etc.
- Setup monitoring infrastructure to measure daily traffic, experience gaps, competitive analysis, opportunity analysis etc.
- Sports Segment: Leading a team of 6-7 developers primarily focused on backend operations for Sports experiences. Sports team offers diverse experiences for fans worldwide, featuring major tournaments in over 10 sports and user interfaces for live and recorded matches.
Senior Software Engineer (Team Lead)
Bing, Microsoft IDC
02.2019 - 02.2023
- Company Overview: Health Segment: Managed a team of 3-4 developers dedicated to backend operations for health-related features on Bing. Additionally, the health team is responsible for the well-known health destination MSN Health.
- Developed experience that assists health users in weight management journey.
- Developed experience in food ingredients, offering crucial information like nutritional content, benefits, possible side effects, and recipes.
- Developed user helpline to help with mental health issues.
- Onboarded MSN Health into more than 10 international languages.
- Health Segment: Managed a team of 3-4 developers dedicated to backend operations for health-related features on Bing. Additionally, the health team is responsible for the well-known health destination MSN Health.
Software Development Engineer -2
Bing, Microsoft IDC
05.2016 - 02.2020
- Company Overview: Tech Segment: This team develops a range of solutions that assist millions of technology users every day.
- Developed multiple experiences for 1000+ File extension.
- Onboarded 200K+ software into the Bing repository and developed capability for their download.
- Collaborated with Microsoft Store team to develop an experience for over 50K+ Desktop Apps.
- Developed query expansion pipeline that locates similar queries, enhancing the breadth of our experience coverage.
- Developed a quality assessment pipeline designed to identify different quality concerns.
- Tech Segment: This team develops a range of solutions that assist millions of technology users every day.
Senior Software Engineer
Pubmatic India Pvt Ltd
12.2014 - 05.2016
- Company Overview: PubMatic is a prominent SSP (Supply Side Platform), with its AdServer being a fundamental component of PubMatic’s infrastructure.
- Made changes to ensure the AdServer meets IAB standards.
- Integrated CMocka unit testing framework into our code repository.
- Served on the on-call team, actively addressing numerous issues in production.
- PubMatic is a prominent SSP (Supply Side Platform), with its AdServer being a fundamental component of PubMatic’s infrastructure.
Software Engineer
Symantec Development Centre
01.2014 - 11.2014
- Company Overview: Veritas Operation Manager (VOM): A business solution for overseeing, managing, and reporting via Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster Server, and Veritas Enterprise Server.
- Created features allowing users to establish rules for event notifications.
- Added support for RHEV in VOM, which facilitates the setup of RHEV managers, correlation of servers, and management of storage.
- Owned several infrastructure components, which includes Server setup & host management.
- Veritas Operation Manager (VOM): A business solution for overseeing, managing, and reporting via Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster Server, and Veritas Enterprise Server.
Assistant Software Engineer
Symantec Development Centre
12.2009 - 12.2012
- Company Overview: VEA, or Veritas Enterprise Administrator, is a product designed to facilitate communication and integration between different Veritas products such as VxVM, VVR, and VxFS.
- Performed a security review of the product with the Coverity static analysis tool.
- Upgraded VEA security for FIPS compliance.
- Migrated the VEA server to Linux platforms on PowerPC and IA-64 architectures.
- VEA, or Veritas Enterprise Administrator, is a product designed to facilitate communication and integration between different Veritas products such as VxVM, VVR, and VxFS.
Member of Technical Staff
Great Software Lab
07.2008 - 07.2009
- Wireshark Generic Dissector: Created a general-purpose packet dissector for Wireshark. This tool reads configuration files for different protocols, allowing Wireshark to effectively parse and analyze packets with respect to the individual specifications of each protocol.
- Automated nCluster Installer: This streamlines the installation process of nCluster systems in Asterdata settings. It features a utility that simplifies setting up virtual machines with various configurations, automating the deployment of Gentoo Linux and Asterdata packages.
Education
Master of Computer Application -
Department of Computer Science, University of Pune
01.2005 - 01.2008
Skills
People management
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer (Team Lead)
Bing, Microsoft IDC
05.2023 - Current
Senior Software Engineer (Team Lead)
Bing, Microsoft IDC
02.2019 - 02.2023
Software Development Engineer -2
Bing, Microsoft IDC
05.2016 - 02.2020
Senior Software Engineer
Pubmatic India Pvt Ltd
12.2014 - 05.2016
Software Engineer
Symantec Development Centre
01.2014 - 11.2014
Assistant Software Engineer
Symantec Development Centre
12.2009 - 12.2012
Member of Technical Staff
Great Software Lab
07.2008 - 07.2009
Master of Computer Application -
Department of Computer Science, University of Pune
01.2005 - 01.2008
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