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Hello | नमस्ते 

I'm Kshitiz Dange

(aka Dange or KD)

 

Over 9+ years of experience building internal products for global organizations. Successful in launching new groundbreaking products from conception to adoption in record time. Experienced in understanding developer pain points and building tools to alleviate them. Skilled at breaking down complex technical problems into small, release-able, user valuable features. Over 4 years of experience leading cross-functional teams (Design, Engineering, Product, Operations, QA, Supply Chain, Customer Success, DevOps, SRE) to align with product vision and go-to-market strategy.  Skilled in recruiting, mentoring, coaching, and building teams of junior to staff/principal level engineers. Experienced with leading distributed/remote teams and local teams of up to 15 ICs and conducting performance reviews leading to multiple promotions. Helping with communication skills and organizational skills.

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In my spare time, I like to read about the latest and greatest in technology to keep myself updated on the current trends. Love hiking in the White Mountains of New England, traveling, working out and sipping on hazy NE IPAs and (lately) spiked seltzers. A lot of my friends and family reach out to me whenever they want advice related to tech products, and I enjoy doing the research and coming up with recommendations for them, if I don't already have them ready.

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Kshitiz Dange

Engineering Manager

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Phone:

412-726-1485

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Email:

contact@kdange.me 

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Current Location:

Boston, MA

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How to pronounce my name:

Shih-tiz Daan-gee

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EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
2023- present

Engineering Manager

Hyannis Port Research | HPR

Currently leading 4 teams of engineers focused on developing high performance computing (HPC) applications for global capital markets. Managing customer expectations, and working on releasing features to clients based in APAC across different time zones, with distributed teams. Hiring and growing the team. Stakeholder management, People management, Project planning, Release planning, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), PO management, Collaboration in a Matrix org, Global Clients, Process improvement, Risk management and Risk assessment, Code review, Test Driven Development (TDD).

2022- 2023

Software Development Manager

6 River Systems | Shopify

Led a team of 5 Software and Robotics Engineers in the Autonomy group within the 6 River Systems org of Shopify Logistics.

  • Focused on managing teams on the Operating Systems, Perception and Movement stacks of robots, working on device drivers and peripherals.

  • Led planning and execution on next gen platform for future robots developing a simulation environment using NVIDIA’s Omniverse.

  • Spearheaded communications with external vendors – NVIDIA, Balena, Zebra, ProGlove etc.

  • Cross functionally led a team of Engineers, Product Managers, QA, SRE, DevOps, Customer Success, Supply Chain.

  • Led the effort to make software upgrade over 3000 robots in the field and saved over $4 million in security-based cost.

  • Mentored and coached 3 engineers for promotion to the next level.

2019-2022

Team Lead | Senior Engineer

BioSensics LLC

Lead a team of Embedded Systems Engineers on Medical Device product development. Develop system software, tools, and technical documentation. Steer team’s project management, release planning, design and code reviews. Actively involved in interviewing and hiring new candidates.

  • Developed and launched a tool that reduces the turnaround time for collecting patients’ data from 2 weeks to 5 mins, also bringing the operational expense of shipping down to zero.

  • Built an internal tool to make it easier for the operations team to interact with our hardware in a user friendly way

  • Created a product that helps track patients’ interaction with a wheelchair.

  • Ideated the first dual device system meant for tracking data for patients’ recovering from Stroke/partial body paralysis.

  • Deployed Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for the firmware code base.

  • Worked on the next generation of movement tracking medical devices that would replace multiple different hardware solutions with one piece of hardware. Bringing down the manufacturing cost 3x, and reduced manufacturing and testing time by 10x.

2017-2019

Software Engineer | Release Management

Arista Networks Inc

Joined the Platform team as a Software Engineer after grad school. Worked on the Release Management team for planning and executing software releases, and developing new protocols.

  • Wrote cron jobs for the tools team to manage and monitor services critical to the software releases, running on a Unix server. These notified the stakeholders in case anything went wrong with the release pipeline, reducing the time to identify critical issues from 2-3 hours to 2 minutes.

  • Enhanced Link Aggregation (LAG) support for Multicast Label Distribution Protocol (mLDP), adding support of software and hardware LAGs to MPLS traffic. Directly impacting a revenue increase due to new customer acquisition.

  • Setup IPv6 for Multicast network traffic on Arista switches, using a variant of C++ called TACC (a programming language developed in-house) and python

Summer 2016

Software Engineering Intern

Splunk

Software Engineering Intern at the Core Framework(Server) Team at Splunk. Developed a mechanism that made transferring and indexing Syslogs more efficient, over the network, in the Splunk pipeline. The project involved working knowledge of Concurrency, Thread Libraries, Network Protocols and OOP concepts.

2013-2015

System Software Engineer

NVIDIA

Worked on the UX driver team at NVIDIA’s Pune Development Center. Developed software that made NVIDIA’s Microsoft Windows based application more feature rich and user friendly.

  • As the owner of the Driver Settings module, Implemented User Access Controls for NVIDIA's Driver package. Making the module compatible with clients written for multiple host systems.

  • Created a new driver framework to allow legacy driver code to interact with modern clients, built using high level languages. Catapulted the growth for GeForce Experience service.

  • Reduced the build pipeline run time from 40 minutes down to 12 minutes by leveraging new build machines ability to do builds in parallel. In-turn reducing the software team’s development turnaround time by 3x.

EDUCATION
EDUCATION
2015-2017

Master's Degree

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

  • Distributed Systems

  • Managerial Economics

  • Embedded Systems

  • Operating Systems

  • Secure Coding

  • Storage Systems

  • Computer Security

  • Telecommunication Networks

  • Parallel Comp Architecture

2009-2013

Bachelor's Degree

University of Pune, India

  • Distributed OS

  • Cloud Computing

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Neural Networks

  • Software Engineering

SKILLS
SKILLS

Agile, Scrum

Product Strategy, Roadmap, Definition, Hiring, Mentoring, Coaching, Performance Reviews

Data Analysis, API, SDK, Docker, GCP, AWS

Jira, Confluence, GitHub Projects,

C/C++ | Python | Typescript

C# | TACC | Go Lang | Assembly(ARM, x86)

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Java | Javascript | MySQL

WinDBG | GDB | Emacs | Git | Perforce | Docker | Vagrant | CCS | SES | Android Studio | Visual Studios

CONTACT

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