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TPM Leadership — AI/ML Infrastructure

TPM Events, a nonprofit corporation

I established and organized the inaugural industry-wide conference for TPMs - the TPM Summit. It attracted over 500 attendees. The event featured speakers and participants from across the tech industry, including Amazon, Google, GitHub, Instacart, Uber, and DoorDash, as well as authors of books related to Technical Program Management. www.TPMSummit.org

Founder | TPM Summit | TPM Trails Meetups

Robinhood

Lead a team of TPMs in Core infra, Data infra, Reliability, and Developer Experience

Sr. Manager - Technical Program Management - Core Engineering

Sr. Staff TPM

Staff TPM @ Data, Infra, Security

TPM meetup

Chief MC 🎤

Uber

TPM in Uber's Big Data Platform working with the teams across multiple open source stacks - Hadoop (HDFS, YARN, Hive, Presto) stack, Kafka stack, Vertica, and others. 

Major programs: Data Platform Cost Efficiency, Containerizing Apache Hadoop Infra, Data Platform Reliability.

Sr. Technical Program Manager @ Data Platform

Project Ice Cream

Swarm Runner @ Matrix 4 (the movie)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Led the team of Operations and System Development engineers to scale the infrastructure for Amazon Elasticsearch and Amazon CloudSearch services.

Manager Operations and Infrastructure

Managed Amazon Elasticsearch launch in 10+ AWS regions including special regions like GovCloud, China, and The Top Secret region.

Senior Technical Program Manager

TPM for two search services provided by AWS:

Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch in the AWS Cloud. Elasticsearch is a popular open-source search and analytics engine for use cases such as log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and click stream analytics. https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service

Amazon CloudSearch is a managed service in the AWS Cloud that makes it simple and cost-effective to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application. Amazon CloudSearch supports 34 languages and popular search features such as highlighting, autocomplete, and geospatial search. https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

Technical Program Manager

Amazon Search - A9.com

Amazon Search Product Management. If you've done a search on Amazon, you've used the
Amazon Search engine developed in A9.

Managed search product development related to new business categories launches – Amazon Home Services, Amazon Handmade Store, Amazon Fresh and others.

Startup Grind

Startup Grind is one of the largest high-tech startup communities in the world to help educate, inspire, and connect 2,000,000 entrepreneurs in 600 cities around 125 countries.
• Launched a minimum viable product (MVP) of a web application for facilitating mentorship within the community. 
• Gathered feedback from community members and mentors, defined MVP roadmap, and wrote user stories.
• Developed back-end and front-end functionality.
• Co-organized local chapter event in Almaty, Kazakhstan featuring Steven Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Alpha

SDE / Technical Product Manager

Yandex

• Determined country-specific product requirements for Yandex‘s services in Kazakhstan, based on analysis of local usage and market research. 

• Defined minimum viable localization features sensible for local users in cooperation with engineers to ensure efficient allocation of engineering resources and timely delivery. 

• Initiated and coordinated remodeling of Kazakh linguistic structure in web search algorithms, constructed grammar models and diacritic conversion rules.

• Established relationships with content and business partners. Managed full chain of communications: partnership proposal, negotiations, signing agreements and technical connection.

• Initiated and launched (owned) country specific projects.

• Represented Yandex in Kazakhstan, including public and government relationships.

Product Manager

I’m Zhanat, a Technical Program Manager and leader with experience in both leading TPM teams and directly driving complex technical programs in cloud and on-prem infrastructure, search and big data platforms, and Security and Enterprise Risk management across Amazon, AWS, Uber, and Robinhood. 
Currently, I lead a team of TPMs at LinkedIn’s AI Platform, where we’re driving AI innovations at scale.

🌐 Beyond my professional role, I’m dedicated to building the global TPM community. I organize the TPM Summit (www.tpmsummit.org), an annual industry-wide conference that unites TPMs from around the world. Also, I’m spearheading TPM Trails, a network of local TPM community groups with active chapters in the SF Bay Area, Seattle, NYC, Europe, and India.

📕 Recently, I authored the book ‘Evangelizing the TPM Craft,’ a book that reflects my commitment to advancing the TPM role and sharing knowledge within the community: https://amzn.to/46YbXgR

Have you heard about TPM Basecamp yet? If not, you're missing out! This year, it's all about the community. A passionate group of TPM Trails    chapter directors is working tirelessly to grow and strengthen our TPM Community. Don't miss your chance to be part of it!!

Bangalore — Malvika Sinha 
New York — Michael Götz 
Vancouver — Heba Rezk, PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP  
Seattle — Joshua Teter, PMP, Zarjish Bashar  
SF Bay Area —  Snehal Shaha PMP, CSM, SAFe Agilist Ozkan Altuner Josie Gillan 

And many others!  
 

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