Hemal Kothari

About Hemal Kothari

Innovative, hands-on Technology executive with a proven track record of leading the design, development & program/project management of SaaS/Cloud/High technology products from concept to market delivery, while continuously improving the processes and procedures to drive revenue, efficiency & market share. Technology and Product leader with expertise in: multi-tenant SaaS, Cloud, Enterprise, eCommerce, mobile & internet applications. Industry Experiences: High Tech, HR, Compliance, Aerospace, Communications, Financial Services, Contact Center, CRM and System Integration. Key strengths:• Building and leading high performance global software engineering teams of 150+ employees to define and execute strategy and deliver results. Leading a global team of senior technology leaders.• Driving innovation in architecture using AWS services (EC2, S3, SQS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, ECS.) for tackling complex issues such as GDPR, PCI Compliance, protecting PII of end users (>100M+ users) and scale. Modern web & mobile UIs using React, and integrating with financial (NetSuite, Acumatica) and fulfillment systems. Agile Iterative development, DevOps culture, with security and privacy first focus.• Deep experience in Program/Project Management, using Agile/Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall or a mix of methods and practices as appropriate.• Building Product roadmaps with Leadership team and Product Management.• Ability to handle several projects in parallel while ensuring quality results are delivered in each project• Managing teams and helping businesses transition from chaotic to agile & predictable SDLC.• Collaborating cross-functionally with different departments, partners, customers and variety of personalities to improve products via continuous feedback for achieving business goals.• Customer Satisfaction & efficiency of Engineering Organizations. Working in Senior management roles with increasing responsibilities over my career, I\'ve developed operational expertise & the ability to fluently manage the transition from chaotic startup to well-oiled machine by finding the right balance of structure and agility for my employers.Some of the recent projects that I\'ve worked on have been around building multi-tenant, highly scalable and distributed cloud/SaaS systems (in the AWS Cloud) to automate/digitize complex HR workflows targeted for consumers, enterprise customers on mobile, tablets and desktops.

Experience

1. Director, Engineering (Developer Division)

   Meta

   Nov 2019 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Leading and supporting multiple teams, incredibly talented managers and engineers in Meta\'s Developer Division. We support Meta\'s Developer workflows, tooling, across all platforms and devices (gaming and enterprise), which enables and produces Meta\'s applications and platforms.Call out to the teams in Menlo Park, Seattle and NY: Data Science and AI/ML (including Analytics and Bento/Jupyter), Python at Meta, Continuous Integration and Build Platforms, Developer Platforms (MacOS, Windows, ASIC), Source Control, and Meta Cloud Developer Environments (OnDemand Compute). We are challenging ourselves to envision and build the next generation of these platforms and services, and contributing heavily to open source. The problem spaces include but are not limited to: distributed systems, Meta scale, reliability, performance, privacy and security.If this sounds interesting, reach out and let’s connect! Hiring managers and engineers.

Education

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelors, Electronics Engineering (EE)

  1986 — 1990

• The University of Texas at San Antonio

  Masters (MSEE), Electrical Engineering (EE)

  1990 — 1992

Skills

• Information Retrieval
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Sdlc
• Social Media
• Solution Architecture
• Scalability
• E-Commerce
• Software Engineering
• Program Management
• Mobile Technology
• Search
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Distributed Team Management
• Xml
• Databases
• Agile Methodologies
• Ecommerce
• Management
• Team Building
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Leadership
• Software Design
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Perl
• Integration
• .net
• Digital Image Processing
• Start-Ups
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Open Source Software
• Saas
• Web Services
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Pre-Sales
• Mobile Applications