Somjit Chatterjee
Senior Engineering Manager
Bangalore,Karnataka
Summary
- Over 16 years of overall experience in Java and excellent exposure to Microservices, AWS, and building scalable systems.
- Over 4 years of experience in project management as an Engineering Manager at Atlassian.
- Overachieved company OKR for enabling Data residency for cloud customers.
- Great exposure in organizing events site-wise at Bangalore and leading the Shipit(Hackathon) event at Atlassian.
- Part of the core committee for hiring interns at Atlassian and freshers and worked with senior managers and HR to strategize the hiring process.
- Contributed to Hiring across all pillars at Atlassian right from technical, and system design, management, and craft interview to values.
- Worked with cross-functional and cross-geo teams for the delivery of project milestones.
- Managed on-call for the team and played the role of an incident manager across Atlassian.
- Seeded the migration team in Bangalore and built a system for migration of the Jira server to a cloud system which was the primary OKR of the company to move to the cloud.
- Seeded Data residency team in Bangalore and built the self-service data residency migration system for Atlassian.
- Seeded HIPAA team in just one month and delivered a critical feature for Atlassian just in 3 months.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Engineering Manager
Atlassian
Bangalore
02.2019 - Current
- Joined Atlassian as a Staff engineer and got promoted in 9 months to Engineering manager for excellent performance.
- Seeded multiple teams in Atlassian with the data residency team being the latest one.
- Built a self-service portal allowing customers to move their data to the designated region as per compliance.
- Worked with the triad, group program Managers, HoE, and Engineering to scope and deliver the User stories.
- Reviewed architecture and code for the team and took full accountability for delivery.
- Performed Scrum Master role and worked in agile scrum methodology and executed projects.
- Work with the product to prepare the roadmap for the project.
- Involved in making feature enhancements to the product, bug fixing, and product stabilization.
- Work with support post-release to set up the process of handling tickets and help the customers.
- Identified issues in the downstream system and worked with cross-team across 3 timezones to get them fixed.
- Raised risk and blockers with other team members for the overall delivery of this project.
Senior Software Engineer
Intuit
Bangalore
09.2013 - 02.2019
- Worked with product managers and the marketing team to design the new notification mechanism for emails that bring revenue to the company.
- Designed and created a new microservice for sending emailsConverted legacy notifications to scalable event-based notifications sending over 10 million emails to our customers.
- Created rest Api’s for weekly summary for mint customers and created a template-based mechanism where a marketing team can change templates without depending on the dev team which enabled running experiments.
- Made the email system compliant using SendGrid providing an un-subscription option that was missing in the old system.
- Fixed issues in the mint product which saved 4000$ for Intuit.
Software Engineer
Avaya
Bangalore
02.2011 - 08.2013
Software Engineer
Mindtree
Bangalore
10.2008 - 02.2011
Education
Master of Computer Application
Christ College
Bangalore 06.2005 - 09.2008
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Garden City Collge
Bangalore 04.2002 - 06.2005
Skills
Problem-Solving
Solving ambiguous problem statement
Teambuilding
Teamwork and Collaboration
Timeline
Engineering Manager
Atlassian
02.2019 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Intuit
09.2013 - 02.2019
Software Engineer
Avaya
02.2011 - 08.2013
Software Engineer
Mindtree
10.2008 - 02.2011
Master of Computer Application
Christ College
06.2005 - 09.2008
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Garden City Collge
04.2002 - 06.2005