Bio

Senior technology leader passionate about building great teams, driving large software engineering projects using open source best practices and creating web and cloud products and services. Subject matter expert in language technologies including internationalization, NLP, machine learning, conversational AI, machine translation, localization. Currently, Senior Manager managing observability and search services engineering. Open Source subject matter expert at Amazon (AWS), guiding open-source strategy. Co-chair of CNCF observability technical advisory group. Governance Committee member at OpenTelemetry. Board director at Unicode Consortium. Well known speaker at top technology conferences. As a senior technology leader at PayPal, led multiple agile, cross-functional engineering teams. Managed PayPal's world readiness engineering and architecture services. Represented PayPal at Unicode Consortium, ECMA TC39. As senior technology leader at Twitter, built multiple engineering teams. Collaborated with open source and open standards stakeholders. Developed platform architecture, software services and tools for internationalization, localization and NLP. Represented Twitter at Unicode Consortium, W3C and ECMA. As director of engineering at Wikimedia, expanded the engineering organization tenfold. Built high performing global engineering teams in the US, Europe, Israel and India. Innovated in applying agile techniques for collaborative engineering projects. Launched Wikipedia features for 300+ languages. Developed strategic partnerships with Google, Red Hat, IBM, Adobe, Facebook. Organized summits to improve Indic, BiDi and Asian language support for mobile and web platforms. Co-founded Linux Asia, India's first open source business conference promoting open-source adoption by industry, government and academia leaders across Asia. Published analyses on impact of open source, Internet growth and emerging tech in Asia.