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Virbhadrasinh Chauhan

Bridging Business Problems & Technology Solutions

About Me

I'm Virbhadrasinh Chauhan,

Engineering Leader with 11+ years of experience in building and scaling high-performance teams that delivers innovative product with a strong emphasis on user experience, scalable design, and quality.
Experience with Team Leadership & Mentoring, Agile Development, Process Enhancement, Resource Planning, Skill Gap Analysis, and Performance Management.
Strong technical background in designing & building complex enterprise distributed systems with micro frontends and microservices architecture.
Program management experience with cross-functional teams & implemented a Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe) to bring transparency on project schedule between development teams and leadership.
I enjoy using my domain expertise in Sales & Marketing automation platform, Travel & CRM to turn complex business problems into simple, intuitive & user friendly application solutions.

My Career

Software Development Manager

Amazon
June 2022 - Present

Working in a startup within Amazon called "Shipping with Amazon". Amazon shipping offers Amazon’s logistic capabilities as a product and service.

Engineering Manager

Demandbase
May 2021 - June 2022

Managing cross-functional product development teams including leads & principal engineers. Developing each individual in different areas of technology and people skills. Working with different cross-functional product departments to enhance the overall product development and delivery process to build best in class customer experience.

Application Architect

InsideView, A Demandbase Company
May 2019 - April 2021

Providing technical leadership to the development team & helping them for finalizing the major aspects of the application architecture. Also, leading the projects on technical roadmaps such as upgrading UI architecture to Angular, enhancing unified test automation, moving to full-stack engineering model, etc. Mentoring & developing people in different areas of technology and people skills.

Principal UI Engineer

InsideView, A Demandbase Company
May 2016 - April 2019

Built Micro Frontends architecture based on the concept of self-contained systems. Building framework-agnostic frontend component library and microservices to increase code reusability, decrease integration time with testing. Also, grooming the existing team on the new architecture by taking hands-on sessions.

Senior UI Engineer

InsideView, A Demandbase Company
May 2015 - April 2016

Created UI artifactory(UI SDK) with new aged technologies which is hosted separately and used in all InsideView products for common components.

UI Engineer

InsideView, A Demandbase Company
September 2014 - April 2015

Owning front-end development for various InsideView products. Also, maintaining and enhancing the product based the project's needs & requirements.

Senior Development Engineer

Pramati Technologies Private Limited
May 2014 – August 2014

Worked as an individual contributor and created some reusable widgets which can be used across the product.

Software Engineer

Verchaska (VE.Simplify Travel)
January 2011 – April 2014

Worked as an individual contributor and gained significant travel industry domain knowledge by working on various complex business problems. Learned Air, Hotel & Travel pricing business in depth.

My Work Experience

June 2022 - Present

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, Earth’s best employer, and Earth’s safest place to work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon.

Working in a startup within Amazon called "Shipping with Amazon". Amazon shipping offers Amazon’s logistic capabilities as a product and service.
September 2014 - June 2022

Demandbase is the Smarter GTM™ company for B2B brands. We help marketing and sales teams spot the juiciest opportunities earlier and progress them faster by injecting Account Intelligence into every step of the buying journey and orchestrating every action.

People Leadership. Managing two teams consisting of 12 cross-functional engineers. Developing each individual in different areas of technology and people skills. Helping everyone to map their career aspirations with daily work.
Technical Leadership. Built Micro Frontends architecture(In 2016 when the industry was still doing assessment) based on the concept of self-contained systems. Building framework-agnostic frontend component library and microservices to increase code reusability, decrease integration time with testing.
Technical Leadership. Built framework-agnostic frontend component library(UI SDK: commonly used independent UI component) to adhere to a consistent UX across the application suite and helps faster application development with ~100% of unit testing.
Program Management. Implemented Essential SAFe standards and Lean-Agile Mindset in the Sales Intelligence cloud engineering teams at Demandbase. After the implementation the product prioritization and PI/roadmap planning became strategic and as a result release cycles are ~90% predictable.
Release Strategy. Built a unified test automation architecture by keeping performance, system stability, code reusability, and reporting in mind. It helps in achieving 100% functional automation for all apps to adhere to independent deployed and CI/CD processes.
Product Strategy. Partnering with product leadership and UX teams on customer feedback and building product vision. Prioritizing roadmap and scheduling release cycles based on resource availability and feasibility. Helping teams in translating product vision into epics and stories.
Business Development. Meeting with customer support and implementation teams regularly for gathering feedback and understanding the onboarding experience. Also, accessing processes in place to meet & track customer SLAs.
Individual Contributor. Worked on many projects as an individual contributor. One of the large-scale projects was revamped of InsideView's flagship product "InsideView Insights". Owned the entire project for both Standalone and CRM(Salesforce & Microsoft Dynamics 365 OEM) integration. Implemented a white labeling strategy to support the same UI components & Backend Rest APIs for supporting multiple themes and responsive layouts across platforms. I have owned product delivery phases & delivered the project with ~100% functional UI automation.
May 2014 – August 2014

Pramati builds independent companies focused on profitable, well-defined markets in social, mobile, and cloud computing technologies.

Worked as part of the team who was working on revamping Dojo based product to AngularJs & created reusable widgets which can be used across the product.
January 2011 – April 2014

Verchaska helps travel companies connect with their customers and partners using innovative product experience and solution design.

As part of the product division worked on various products targeting different areas of travel industry like Travel Business Intelligence, Travel Search Engine, Travel package Advertisement Portal, SBT (Self Booking Tool) or IBE (Internet Booking Engine) and Travel ERP solution.
Designed and developed Pricing Rule Engine to support complex travel pricing logic and validates policies using Drools and Java.
Integrated various Air web service API suppliers like Amadeus, Cleartrip, IndiGo, SpiceJet to support SBT and IBE.
Design and develop RESTful Web Services APIs & UI architecture for Travel Business Intelligence product using Play Framework, Backbone.js, RequireJS, Bootstrap etc.

Skills

Leadership & Management

Team Leadership & Mentorship Data Driven Decisions Resource Planning Skill Gap Analysis Knowledge Management Performance Management Global Collaboration Team & Risk Management Cost Optimization in Team Management Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe) Agile Development Roadmap/PI Planning Scrum & Kanban Software Development Methodology Strategic Planning Product Strategy Product & Program Management Process Enhancement

Technical Expertise

Micro Frontends Architecture Native Web Technologies Angular Webpack.js Node.js BackboneJS RequireJS Distributed Microservices Architecture Java RESTFul web services Bootstrap & Material UI Selenium TestNG JMeter Zephyr Scale & TestLink Shell Script AWS Code Commit/Build/Pipeline AWS S3 & CDN/Cloudfront Web Analytics Salesforce Ecosystem Jenkins GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab JIRA & Confluence Internationalization & Localization Chrome Extension White Labeling

Domain Expertise

Account Based Marketing Platform
Targeting Sales Intelligence Platform
Customer Data Management
On-Demand Business Rule Engine
Travel Business Intelligence Platform
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Internet Booking Engine (IBE/SBT)
Travel ERP & Back office

Honors & Awards

Won the Systems of Intelligence Hackathon 2017

InsideView, A Demandbase Company

Created a platform for third-party vendors to upload their unique data sets with InsideView's data sets and sell it to the end user via InsideView's market place.

Above and Beyond(Q1 2015)

InsideView, A Demandbase Company

This honor is given to a person who goes above his role & responsibility and does an extraordinary job in favor of the company to accomplish the goal. I got this award for creating new UI Architecture, UI artifactory(UI SDK) and grooming UI team on it by taking technical and hands-on sessions.

Honorable Mention in Travel Innovation Hackathon 2012

Verchaska (VE.Simplify Travel)

Created a unique design for return trip flight search result which was loading in less than ~150 milliseconds with dummy data.

My Education

Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.)

Savitribai Phule Pune University
May 2008 - Jume 2011

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electronics

Veer Narmad South Gujarat University
May 2005 - Jume 2008

Class XII

Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board
March 2005

Class X

Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board
March 2002

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