• Defined, implemented and enforced processes to support an engineering team that quickly reached 30-35 members. Provided the ability to run different services on local machines through VPN including communications.
• Oversaw the release management of bi-monthly feature pushes to production.
• Organized quality control through lint, static code analysis, unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end automated testing and manual testing.
• Performed hands-on management and led by example (PR reviews, mentoring, debugging, investigating staging or prod issues, etc.)
• Drove the adoption of monitoring practices that allowed to detect and pro-actively fix problems (address potential bottlenecks, release push regressions, system health, etc.).
• Participated and guided architecture choices.
• Enforced an emphasis on "no downtime" for customer operations (release deployments, new website, system upgrades, legacy system changes, etc.)

• Led the engineering effort on both hardware and software for a critical deal (1M tablets) for Intel and its partners in an extremely tight schedule. Represented Intel on daily meetings with the customer, the OS developer, driver developers, the ODM, etc. and was instrumental in issue resolutions that concluded to a successful deployment.
• Organized teams as self-sufficient and multi-disciplinary teams assigned to a project or feature, allowing the handling of most decisions at the team level. Optimized by assigning members based on their interests (TOP model).
• Handled resource, priorities and budget planning for the engineering group in coordination with the UX and PM leadership, and improved relationship and processes with finance.
• Managed deployment of cloud at customer locations including decision on infrastructure to use and timing.
• Closely monitored releases and provided technical input when applicable to the different projects that my teams worked on.
• Implemented a very flexible and versatile organization for the client team where most engineers could work on different OS (Android, Windows, iOS).
• Shortened the release cycle to improve the predictability of the release date, but also allow team members to change teams and project regularly.
• Broke down the yearly PORs into quarterly PORs in alignment with UX and PM, providing 2 quarters of visibility to the team.
• Increased visibility of the organization by publishing documents accessible to all IEG employees such as project statuses, quarterly PORs, list of potential deployments, etc.
• Created rotating SWAT teams to work on production issues and on advanced projects/prototypes.
• Kicked off the re-design of the analytics pipeline based on Big Data technologies.
• Participated to the Harvard Business management multi-month training offered by Intel.

• Initiated the Xamarin investigation as a cross-platform solution, got the buy-in from executive management and directed the development of the common platform code, and the apps based on it (iPad, Android, Windows store and desktop apps).
• Managed all C/C++ common components across the apps: DRM, page rendering, highlights, quizme, search, etc.
• Delivered in record time a complete solution for an html5 web reader with 30000 books available at launch and others converted on demand (includes REST apis, single session management, hardware, front end, CDN with token protection)
• Managed the transition from the Kno device apps (reader and content manager) to the iPad app which became shortly after the top 4 grossing application
• Supervised local reports, contractors and teams in remote location
• Made significant improvements to the framework and rendering pipeline when working on the Kno device, and made significant performance improvements to the reader as well (for example, worked with vendor to optimize a page rendering from 47s to 2.6s).
• Managed the ingestion team responsible for taking publisher’s PDF files and optimizing them for the on-device experience.
• Organized the localization and I18N across the apps including Arabic.
• Championed, implemented and maintained continuous integration builds, automated testing and review systems.
• Interacted with various vendors (Artifex, Nvidia, Intertrust (DRM), Xamarin, etc.).
• Successfully retained engineers during uncertainties before and after the acquisition.
• Implemented the build systems for windows, iOS and android apps with easy download of the artifacts built for different environments.

• Co-authored slide deck and participated in some of the VC meetings.
• Participated in the StartX (Stanford Accelerator) spring session.
• Prepared and updated the app (Appisode 1) for sharing with eventual investors (Apple registration, distribution, etc.) and participated to user studies.
• Created and set-up the web site.
• Planned budget and worked on the resource selection.

Tools: AWS, ObjectiveC

• Co-integrated WebKit into the platform code as a client-server module to keep the UI independent from the browser engine.
• Improved network connections and loading times by patching open source software.
• Optimized and tailored rendering to the unique requirements of eInk displays.
• Designed and implemented user interactions with the web content and page navigation only using directional keys. A user could successfully navigate through dynamic content (controlled by Javascript), through embedded iframes and through complex UIs such as Google maps. Reviewed by Jeff Bezos.
• Engaged in architectural discussions about the upcoming Kindle generation.
• Created a prototype and presented to VP to demonstrate the strengths of a platform designed around the browser (before WebOS and ChromeOS were announced).

• Video Management System manager
  • Defined requirements, visuals and interactions across the application including the content management console and the analytics dashboard, and developed webcasts as part of the help system.
  • Created an event-driven architecture built around reusable/embeddable components using OO Javascript to support video uploading (http/ftp), video metadata edition, static and smart playlist creation, advertisement policies, comprehensive customer and internal analytics (including billing), user registration and management (groups), customer management, etc.
  • Product acclaimed by customers as very intuitive and powerful compared to alternatives. Stratton Sclavos praised the UI simplicity and the speed of development.
• Player SDK manager
  • Designed a highly customizable, event-driven and object-oriented JavaScript/ActionScript3 SDK composed of plugable components.
  • By adding a couple of lines to their web sites, customers had access to powerful features such as automated plug-in installation/upgrade, ad integration with several ad networks and ad management (pre/mid/post roll and companion ads), analytics collection, first/last frame customizations, multi video format support, multiplayer support on a single web page, playlist support (JSON/RSS), multilingual support (all demonstrated in a showcase with sample code).
• Software release management
  • Automatic documentation generation (web services, player SDK) and webcast creation
  • Schema validation tool and patch management across environments, deployment scripts, performance monitoring, obfuscation, static code analysis.

• Mobile UI framework lead
  • Managed, architected and led the development of the SVG widget framework across different locations.
  • Augmented SVG of features more specific to UIs such as dynamic layouts, localization, I18N and the support for right-to-left languages.
  • Co-designed the application framework including packaging, cascading skins, etc.
  • Managed remote teams who helped develop and test the framework, and converted some of the main applications.
  • Trained and helped the different teams (framework, apps and design teams) to effectively interact with each other. The new architecture introduced a paradigm shift in terms of how the respective teams used to work together.
• Embedded graphics and UI expert
  • Corporate delegate to international consortiums including W3C (SVG) and JCP (JSR226, JSR290).
  • Conducted corporate-wide technical presentations to encourage the use of declarative technologies for creating rich and animated UIs, and to promote the idea that designers should be able to iterate their designs on the actual devices with instant feedback.

• Managed and co-implemented Motorola’s SVG player (including an implementation of JSR135 (SVG), JSR226 and Javascript bindings). Implementation highly optimized the memory usage, footprint and performance (benchmarked better than other 3rd party SVG engines).
• Led its integration into different applications (Start-up screen, browser, media player, Java bindings, home screen).
• Leveraged the SVG engine infrastructure to develop the MMS player (transitions, rendering, DOM, HTML rendering, parsing).
• Maintained highest standards of quality by automating regression tests, memory corruption tests, leak detection, unit test execution, code size monitoring, image correlation tests against a baseline (>1000 svg files), document generation and the display of these results on a web site. One of the tests checked the engine stability by failing one-by-one every memory allocation.
• Mentored dev, qa and release engineers on debugging skills, good practices and processes.
• Engine capabilities and its potential was demonstrated to the CTO: Padmasree Warrior.