Vivek Gadiyar

About Vivek Gadiyar

Results-oriented leader with experience in platform engineering, platform product management, and strategic planning. Proven ability in building high performance teams in a global development organization. Successfully aligns team\'s mission and products towards company vision and goals. Leads execution of the mission by iteratively delivering value to users. Key strength in identifying and communicating customer needs and incorporating feedback into design and delivery of products.

Experience

1. Director, Platform Engineering

   eBay

   May 2021 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Engineering leader for eBay developer platform that increases developer productivity, improves security & availability of eBay apps and enables automation and self-service for deployment into Kubernetes and Service Mesh. We deliver automation and self-service developer experience for Java and Node.js stacks. Product portfolio includes developer tools, language frameworks and application services- Responsible for strategic roadmap, quarterly plans- Launched successful and customer-focused next gen Java platform for microservices by introducing modularity and composable application development experience and increasing adoption from 0 to 100+ by early adopting users- Improved application reliability by eliminating all configuration related site incidents through next generation push based application configuration service- Drove and produced the next generation Rate Limiter resulting in accurate counting and blocking, and reduced latency in retrieving RL decisions- Proposed and delivered automated site wide upgrade solution to address platform upgrade pain point resulting in 90% of app upgrading to latest platform version in 2017 (eBay Open Source - https://github.com/eBay/RTran ). Automation delivers upgraded code as a Pull-Request (PR) to app repositories using upgrade-as-a-service- Delivered Batch platform that enabled a cloud-based lifecycle for Batch applications while increasing adoption of applications from 0 to 300- Proposed a self-service scheduling experience for Batch jobs, resulting in 30% of all batches now leveraging this self-service scheduling capability- Launched Node.js platform targeting Web UI development at eBay, and recruited eBay Buying and Selling experience flows to adopt Node.js platforms resulting in increased adoption of platform from 0 to 160

Education

• Iowa State University

  MS, Computer Engineering

  1994 — 1996

• University of Mysore

  B.E, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  1989 — 1993

• University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

  Executive Education, Product Management Program

  2017 — 2017

Skills

• Product Development
• Leadership
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Integration
• Strategy
• Linux
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Team Leadership
• Web Services
• Project Management
• Product Management
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Rest
• Java
• Consulting
• J2ee Application Development
• Websphere Application Server
• Representational State Transfer (Rest)
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Cloud Computing
• Soa
• Websphere
• Distributed Systems
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Developer Tools
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Software Development
• Scrum