Canada

Technical Product Management

Front-end

Full stack

Data engineering

Business Transformation

Anand Safi

Director of Engineering, Data Platform & Products

Public Speaking

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Product roadmap

Postman

React

Airflow

GitHub

HTML

JavaScript

Jira

REST API

• Head of data engineering, data platform and MLOps solutions at Zinnia, overseeing data pipelines, data modeling, and data infrastructure.
• Implemented data governance and security measures, ensuring reliability in data pipelines and protecting customer information.
• Built a world-class data practice and culture, partnering with product and engineering teams to design data models for AI/ML products.

Distinguished Mentor for FirstRoud FastTrack Cohort

- Head of Engineering for Dispatch, First Responder and Mobile work streams
- Team Management & Leadership for a division of Engineering Managers, Full stack engineers, FE/ BE/ Mobile/ Staff engineers
- Delivered Enterprise SaaS solutions at scale globally across variety of cloud environments
- Scaled engineering processes and reduced time to delivery of critical features
- Established Mobile Engineering practice from zero to one
- Added top-line revenue with the build and delivery of web, electron based and native Android & iOS Applications 
- Involved with re-write of legacy application and architecture overhaul - Delivered mission-critical software with reliability, stability and scale on a CI/CD model 
- Effectively drove company strategy and organizational OKRs as a Senior Engineering Leader  
- Collaborated with Product, Design, QA and customer-focused teams for effective rollouts  
- Set up an observability group with  telemetry, error monitoring, design systems, CI/CD, Testability 
- Led hiring for and retaining of top engineering talent 
- Served as a core member of Culture Task Force leading and evaluating the pulse across teams 

Senior Engineering Manager: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

Advisor for the Stay22 Exec team on technical insights, growth opportunities and roadmap.

Stay22 aggregates travel providers on its interactive maps to help travelers make the best & fastest travel decisions.

- Leading a team of 7 including mentorship and coaching for engineers on the team
-  Active contribution as a lead engineer to exemplify technical best practices
-  Technical Product Management to ensure operational efficiency
-  Team Leadership/Collaboration around high quality work delivery
- Core Member of 2 committees focused around Inclusion, Diversity, Equality & Awareness
-  Stakeholder Facilitation for timely delivery on business objectives with sound technical execution
- Release Coordination and leading charge on a rotational basis for weekly releases across the org

- Engineering Leadership partner for commercial teams to identify key success metrics and take ownership for evangelizing the feature with stakeholders
- Technical Delivery Lead for one of the 3 Frontend teams

- Proficient with Web development technologies - JavaScript (ES6+), CSS, HTML)
- Well-versed in frameworks to build an application (Vue.js / React)
- Adhere to clean coding practices (TDD, strong typing - Typescript, GitHub sub versioning), & thinking architecturally (focus on SOLID design principles)
- Projects using REST APIs and Node.js 
- Experience working with the AWS cloud platform (EC2, S3, Lambda, Kinesis etc.)
- Familiarity with backend technology stack with Ruby on Rails, Java
- Technical ownership of small-mid size projects and complex features with minimal oversight
- Ability to work on all aspects of delivering working software, including analysis, design, automated testing, operations, CI/CD, cross team collaboration, and support.

e2e test suite architecture & authoring using BDD, rspec, cucumber

- Automation test development using Selenium/WebDriver, JAVA (tool used: Eclipse IDE)
- In-charge of QA processes from the Application side 
- Manual Testing for exploration and identification of areas to automate
- Documentation of QA process (tool used: MediaWiki)
- Defect/Bug logging, tracking, triage, ownership and management (tool used: BugZilla)

- Numerous test cases creation and execution (tool used: Zephyr)
- Preparation of Test Plan/ Test Strategy, Test Reports, Test Scenarios, Test Data, Requirement Traceability Matrix
- Conducting Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for larger issues
- Defect reporting, tracking, triage, ownership and management (tool used: JIRA)
- Advanced proficiency in conducting Sanity, Functional, Integration, Compatibility, System, Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phases
- Back-end DB and Data warehouse testing for Netezza and Oracle DB through SQL statement execution
- Running data processing jobs (tool used: Talend) & Custom report generation and testing (tool used: Pentaho)
- Proficient in XML data files manipulation and testing & Testing the API (tool used: Sterling API Tester)
- Data Feeds testing (Inbound and Outbound Data feeds) & Data Migration testing (tool used: IBM DataStage)
- Error log monitoring (tool used: PUTTY, WinSCP)
- Automated the complete flow of Order Management System (OMS) (tool used: Eclipse IDE)

- Research assistant to data-mining and database oriented “Gene recognition” project for Johnson & Johnson through macros, R programming
- Systems, network maintenance and web development for Department of Computer Science for 10+ laboratories
- Media and technical support for Fox School of Business

Anand Safi🇨🇦