Bachelor of Engineering

Masters

- Design, architect & implement analytics infrastructure for near real time processing
- Define key performance metrics for the product and the company
- Design & implement external facing dashboard for publishers as well as internal reports for tracking day-to-day progress - Ongoing product analysis & modeling to guide data-driven product roadmap

Analytics Lead

Advisor

- Designed and developed a tool for benchmarking performance of Host Attach kits on Windows/Linux/VMware
- Deployed by SAN/Host Utilities group for comparing performance measurements across product releases
- Worked closely with a group of 12 colleagues at Netapp Raleigh and Netapp Bangalore

Software Engineering Intern

- Design & architect targeting and delivery optimizations of social ads on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and the Web - Design & implement robust end-to-end reporting infrastructure using Hadoop,HBase, Hive
- Data Modeling & Analysis to identify unique social insights for brand advertisers.
- Product specification & documentation for new social advertising products (Pulse, SIA 2.0, Social Overlay) & features.
- Work closely with team of 4 engineers with a focus on agile development philosophy

Software Engineer

Mentor

*First female engineer at Airbnb
*Founding member of the growth team at Airbnb, currently a team of 30 people.
*Productized our performance marketing efforts to scale, optimize and efficiently spend our marketing dollars across 20 languages.
*Strategy, design and implementation of our in house tracking tool to measure our partnership and performance marketing efforts
*Lead engineer to drive organic (SEO) growth on really competitive verticals (accommodation, vacation rentals etc)
*Built Experimentation framework to test, measure and iterate at scale.


Product Growth

Trips Lead, India:  Currently leading our efforts on launching experiences in India.

Building Foundational components:
        * Trust & Safety:  Strategy, design and implementation of a localized verification offering for Indian users.
       *Payments: Lead cross functional collaboration across Product, Engineering and our Local payment gateway partner to set up localized payment options (debit / credit) 
       *Product Localization: Build product roadmap based on market knowledge to localize our product offering in India (demand and supply side)
       *Growth Marketing: Build locally relevant messaging and optimization strategies on key channels (google/facebook) to drive demand. 

Strategic Partnerships: 
           *Lead Strategic partnerships across verticals to build trust by association, awareness and demand for Airbnb. Few notable partners include Thomas Cook (one of a kind), Tripoto, TripHobo, Citibank, SBI, HDFC, Ixigo, CondeNast, Nat Geo, Little Black Book, JetAirways, B

Strategic Initiatives and Growth, APAC

Board Of Advisors

- Designing and developing an antispam service for trackbacks on Movable Type blogging platform.
- Prototyping & Cost/Benefit analysis of ad serving & ad management tools
- Unified data analysis & reporting hub for all blogging platforms

Founder

Founder at Upraised | Previously did Growth @ Airbnb, Apture, Socialmedia.com

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