Veer

About Veer

Tech Lead Manager with 10+ years building scalable systems, leading teams, and shipping…

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   Motive

   May 2022 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Led engineering for the Safety Cameras Team, owning technical execution, architecture, and mentorship; partnered with Staff PM, Embedded, IoT, and Design. Served as STO, driving sprint planning, performance reviews, and end‑to‑end delivery.• Developed and deployed real‑time distributed IoT pipelines on Kubernetes using Kafka, gRPC, Go, and AWS IoT Core—optimizing for millisecond latency, horizontal scalability, and 99.9% reliability. • Played a key role in building a next‑gen vehicle gateway with camera systems, including an MQTT metadata pipeline for multi‑resolution video requests. •• Deployed real‑time speeding detection and in‑cab alerts, reducing high‑risk driving behavior by 75%.•• Automated IoT device fault detection and quarantine via Datadog, Statsig; designed telemetry pipelines to track system health and proactively prevent service degradation.• Led API optimization—indexing, partitioning, caching, async processing, and deprecating low‑value metrics based on Pendo insights—cutting latency by up to 80%.• Modernized the event‑filtering engine, reducing processing costs by 30% and enabling fleet‑specific configurability.• Designed a rule‑based severity model for speeding events, enabling targeted driver coaching and reducing repeat high‑risk offenses by 25%.• Contributed to org‑wide architectural standards, defining scalability and reliability patterns for real‑time IoT streaming.• Mentored engineers through code reviews, architecture deep dives, and 1:1 coaching; influenced biannual roadmaps and feature prioritization with data‑driven system performance analyses.• Led on‑call rotations and incident management, establishing observability best practices and custom dashboards in Datadog.• Interviewed 50+ candidates, scaling high‑bar hiring across backend, infrastructure, and system design.Tech Stack: Go, Ruby on Rails, Python, Kafka, Kubernetes, gRPC, AWS services, PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Terraform, Datadog, Statsig

Education

• Anna University Chennai

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

• Illinois Institute of Technology

  Master of Science (MS)