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Staff Software Engineer & Tech lead for Service Discovery @Meta (in Core Infrastructure)

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Software Engineer

Microsoft

Shipped Windows 10 Photos app ( C++ )
- Designed and implemented image analysis pipeline. This pipeline brings together various imaging algorithms together and also supports versioning.
- Performance improvements of as much as 4x across various components of the analysis pipeline.
- Solely architected the app to support multiple windows in the Photos app.
- Integrated edit pipeline from windows 8.1 Photo editor into the viewer to show users enhanced version of their photos.
- Created an internal first party API to allow other apps to use the crop control in the Photos app.
- Worked with multiple teams in windows platform to get new features added to improve Photos app. 
- Mentored junior developers.
- Connected OneDrive album experience with Photos app album experience allowing users to manage or publish albums to OneDrive.
- Added album share so that users can share their favorite albums with friends and family.
- Working on getting more features in for the Photos app.

Software Development Engineer II

Shipped windows raw codec as part of windows update on windows 8.
- Performance improvements on arm 
- Deployment schema for windows update.

Photo Editor - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, Direct2D, SIMD, XAML, PPL)
- Core member for the design of image editing effect pipeline, rending engine and a variety of edit features.
- Added the direct2d rendering engine in the photo editor.
- Performance improvements for edit features using vectorization and multi core programming.
- Ensured 30FPS on most devices.
- Added image straighten, blemish removal + local area pixel fix engine, revamped crop & selective focus and other contributions

Video Trim - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, XAML, PPL)
- Implemented the complete video trim feature for the photos app.

Camera - Windows 8.1 Camera App ( C++ 11, PPL, XAML)
- Improved startup performance by more than 50%
- Improved performance of other core scenarios by significant amount.
- Feature contributions.

Stood up a TFS + git based build system for the team.

Software Development Engineer

Georgia Institute of Technology

Worked on web applications for marketing studies. (Php, MySQL)

Web Developer

Added Auto Collage in Windows Photo gallery. (C++, COM)

Software Development Intern

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- Mentored many senior & staff engineers and managers. 
- Designed & built multiple systems with critical focus on scalability & reliability. 
- Solved many cross team & organization misalignments with my inter-personal skills. 

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Raviraj Achar

4scale Ventures

Support companies at all stages to reach their ambitions on growth, efficiency and leadership. We use our combined experiences within commercial, product and technology to help our customers and portfolio companies scale in a sustainable way.

What we do:
- Advisory roles and board seats
- Investments
- Selective consultancy projects
- Interim positions in senior leadership roles

Founding Partner

Meela

Tech advisor

PhysAct

VP of Engineering

Kambi

Head of Development - Retail Stream

Development Lead

Ericsson

Head of Development Center

Section Manager

Ericsson Telecomunicazioni S.p.A.

Lean&Agile Coach

Leading agile teams SW department
Agile Coach

R&D Manager and Agile Coach

Leading a department responsible of Integration&Verification and Market customization.

R&D Manager

Development Team coordination
Customer requirement definition and clarification
On site support and technical point of reference for the customer
Product and technical documentation

Technical Coordinator

Accenture

Consultant

Fractional CTO / VP engineering | Tech Advisor | Founding Partner 4scale Ventures

Passionate, energetic, and people-oriented leader with 10+ years’ experience in product and tech (Head of SW, Director of Engineering, VP engineering). 

Strong international (Italy, China, Sweden, and Romania) and cross-industry (telecom, gaming/gambling, health-tech) background. 

Solid experience in change management and organizational development.

Agile certifications: CSM, CSPO, CSP.

Personal blog: www.leadbeyondcode.com

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