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Viral Singh

Bengaluru
Viral Singh

Summary

Result-oriented engineering leader with 17+ years of experience, specializing in microservices architectures. Currently, leading technology teams at Google to deliver awesome experiences to our partners. Proven track record of optimizing legacy systems for higher resiliency, efficiency, and substantial cost savings. A visionary leader with a strong emphasis on open-source contributions and mentoring to drive innovation and performance in cross-functional teams.

Overview

16
years of professional experience

Work History

Google
Bengaluru, India

Engineering Manager
09.2024 - Current

Job overview

Leading "Productivity Excellence" team for Google One and Photos. It consists of 28 engineers and 3 different pods.

  • Led cross-functional teams to deliver innovative engineering solutions to improve productivity across teams.
  • One of the initial teams to leverage AI solutions to help reduce developer friction by more than 55% in pre-submit stage and reduce build time by more than 60%.
  • Streamlined project management processes, enhancing collaboration and communication across departments which helped in overcoming the reliance on QA team for minor launches and hence speeding up the launches.
  • Led infra development to help developers reduce feedback loop by ~80%, from ~2 hours to less than 20 mins.
  • Mentored junior engineers, fostering skill development and knowledge sharing within the team. Grew 5 engineers to senior engineers in last 3 cycles. Zero attrition in last 2 years. High MRS rating - 4.53.

Myntra

Senior Engineering Manager
12.2017 - 07.2024

Job overview

Lead "Partner Experience" charter at Myntra. It consisted of 25+ engineers and 4 different pods. This team acts as the owner of any partner-related information and manages the entire journey of partners on Myntra.

  • Vendor Management Service, Terms, Onboarding Service, Partner Portal and IRIS Portal are a few major systems which are owned by my team.
  • Drove and pushed first open source module of Myntra.
  • Grew and mentored 3 new EMs in my team. High talent retention.
  • Solved many partner focussed problem which helped in improving NPS by 100% over the last 3 years.
  • Drove infra cost optimization initiative across the BU to reduce it by ~30%.

Play Games 24x7

Software Development Engineer - 3
04.2016 - 12.2017

Job overview

  • Worked with the front-end team and developed a framework to develop a bot which could play rummy against human/bot on cocos game client using a unique approach.
  • Developed various tools for in-house projects.
  • Also led a team of engineers working on different backend modules for the front-end team.

LinkedIn

Software Engineer
07.2014 - 04.2016

Job overview

  • Ownership of the module - “Who viewed your profile” (Mirror).
  • Contributed to the legacy framework being used at LinkedIn.
  • Initiated performance validations and backend API automation at LinkedIn and also trained other engineers on the same.

Expedia

Software Engineer
05.2013 - 07.2014

Job overview

  • “Package Discovery Services” (PDS) which was being used to search packages depending upon user inputs and by making corresponding downstream calls and then collating the data to prepare packages.
  • “Package Booking Services” which was being used to change/cancel existing booked packages.

Huawei

Software Engineer
12.2009 - 05.2013

Job overview

  • Worked on various messaging platforms: Push to Talk (PTT), SMS, MMS, PUSH, Provisioning Messages, CMAS, Exchange Active Sync.
  • Traveled and worked in Chile for 6 months in collabration with Nextel operator to develop and support deployment of push to talk (PTT) feature. Worked in China (Shanghai) for 7 months with the product team.

Education

SASTRA University

B.Tech from Computer Science
06-2009

University Overview

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Hindi
Advanced (C1)

Timeline

Engineering Manager
Google
09.2024 - Current
Senior Engineering Manager
Myntra
12.2017 - 07.2024
Software Development Engineer - 3
Play Games 24x7
04.2016 - 12.2017
Software Engineer
LinkedIn
07.2014 - 04.2016
Software Engineer
Expedia
05.2013 - 07.2014
Software Engineer
Huawei
12.2009 - 05.2013
SASTRA University
B.Tech from Computer Science
Viral Singh