Manohar Shankar
Director of Engineering @eBay
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Engineering @eBay
My team built and launched a fee based ad program called Promoted Listing Express to help sellers promote auction based listings on the eBay marketplace. This was launched in collaboration with multiple teams within a span of 6 months.My team built and launched the CPC based Promoted Listing Advanced program to help sellers promote and increase sales for their items on eBay marketplace.
EDUCATION
National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communications
ABOUT MANOHAR SHANKAR
I have been managing the teams developing software for consumer websites (eBay.com), and enterprise products (Project Management, Resource Management domains) for past 20 years. In those 20 years, I have a been an Individual Contributor for 10 years and a technology leader for 10 years. I have lead all aspects of software delivery i.e, concept stage, locking requirements, end to end architecture, execution and delivery, similarly lead all aspects of team management i.e, team building, cross functional relationships, prioritization, individual team member happiness, and more. I have special expertise in the advertising domain for the past 10 years in eBay where my team built end to end Advertising stack from campaign management, ad serving, tracking, reporting, ad optimization, and guidance.Key Accomplishments:Built a top of search Highline Search Ad product to enable eBay sellers to market their inventory in the prime real estate of eBay with a core team of 20 engineers and effective collaboration with search team, reporting team, tracking teams within eBay. The project was launched within 15 days of initial target launch date.Built an advertising stack from scratch to serve 1st party display ads across eBay eco-system with campaign management, targeting, ad serving, tracking features within a period of 1 year with a core team of 7 engineers, with help from partner teams. The initial version of the stack was launched within 6 months of ideation on time for holiday season.Skills* Leading teams using technologies and languages such as Marko.js/React.js, Node.js, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Apache Kafka, Apache CouchDB, Apache Grafana, Oracle, Hadoop, eBay Cloud, HBase, Rest API, Java and Scala.* Proficient in working with agile (scrum), waterfall development methodologies.* Expert at solving problems related to Advertising Domain. I have built the end-to-end Ads stack for different use cases from Campaign Management, Budget Management, Ad Serving, Tracking, Reporting, and Attribution.* Hiring talented engineers, building teams from scratch both on-shore and off-shore* Experience in developing features for consumer domain products such as building & maintaining websites, products serving merchant inventory.* Experience in developing features for enterprise domain products such as resource management, project management, capacity management.
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