Vrashabh Irde

Amazon is the most customer-centric website on Earth. I worked for Dynamic Advertising (DA), an important advertising channel for Amazon. DA has tremendous scale and my teams worked with critical systems that handle 30 Billion bid requests a day with an SLA of 40ms per request. \* I led a 2 pizza team of Machine Learning Research Scientists and Development engineers. We built world class real time bidding models (Neural Nets). I also led a team responsible for customer facing ad creatives. \* Responsible for delivery and strategic leadership, Operational Excellence (OE) and career trajectory management of my direct reports. \* Led a project to build monitoring dashboards that spotted falling trends in model bias performances across marketplaces early that lead to finding issues quicker. \* Led an agile rewrite of implementation processes for the team to introduce sprint based kanban planning (Scrumban) with a vision to improve predictability of delivery within the org. \* Worked with multiple stakeholders across the US and APAC to efficiently, profitably and smoothly bid across the world(Amazon A9, Amazon IN marketing)

\* I led a ~20 person agile cross-functional mobile platform team. We improved app retention by 2X(100%) and monthly installs by 3X(200%) within a year. \* Line managed a team of 11 great engineers and we built the mobile apps (native apps/backend API’s/infrastructure/automation), which collectively have more than a million installs across both stores. \* We built compelling and engaging features like Personal Finance tracker, Finance 101 Primer, and other personalised features on the mobile apps. Try us out! \* Was In charge of people development (regular 1-1's, retrospectives). Three promo's and attrition < 10% in 2 years. \* Interviewed more than a 100 senior engineers, TL's and SDM's, to help hire the best people at BB (Tech / Fitment /Bar raising). Also involved in morphing HR processes to improve hiring funnels \* Co-created a team called tech brand that is responsible for improving the tech brand outside and inside Bankbazaar via hackathons, blogs and fun fridays. (20% project).

In my short stint at INSZoom, worked on zoomlee, a powerful and easy-to-use app to securely store all your family's documents in a single location. \* KRA’s around Product development and coding (80%), people/processes (20%). \* Built a kickass team of 3 via internal hackathons and sped up app development by 2X (Kanban). \* Wrote code for, and shipped major app and server updates to both the app stores. (Android , iOS, php). \* Drove the complete revamp of backend architecture from Zend PHP to the .Net framework. \* Helped drive marketing for the apps via innovative channels like digital marketing, Facebook ads and physical stall marketing. \* Brought in a hacker culture and philosophy to the overall org (modelled on Facebook).

In my short stint at Oracle, worked in the retail R&D business unit. \* KRA’s around bug fixing and coding (100%). \* Helped build a backend for a data warehouse product called Retail Analytics. \* Fixed bugs in the Retail management system (RMS v11.0).

Started my career at Robert Bosch, India a leading supplier of Technology and services headquartered in Germany. \* KRA’s around Product development and coding (100%). \* Wrote mathematical algorithms related to dynamic price calculations and lots of front end code on Oracle Forms. \* Shipped a Multi Lingual Translation tool for Bosch Worldwide, built on Oracle forms and PL/SQL. \* Wrote database and fronted (dev and maintenance) code for a Market Sales and Planning software for Bosch worldwide.