United States

Platform Product Management

Lakshmi

Senior Engineering Manager

Writing on Substack

Problem-solving

Time management

Empathy

Team player

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Product roadmap

Zapier

Adobe Photoshop

ChatGPT

CircleCI

JavaScript

Jira

Notion

Confluence

PostgreSQL

Node.js

Communication

Collaboration

Critical-thinking

Public Speaking

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

We help banks and fintech companies manage customer onboarding with identity verification and fraud monitoring through a single API.

http://alloy.com/

- Built two engineering teams of 5+ engineers over the last 2 years, to create the strategic data acquisition & distribution channels for GSAM desks and portfolio management teams.
- Responsible for hiring, growth, performance evaluation for high potential engineers, with a proven track record of coaching and mentorship.
- Work closely with leadership teams across Equities, Fixed Income, and other desks on roadmap planning and manage ongoing client relationships sharing outcomes through written communication & data priorities meetings.
- Develop product roadmap for data pipelines, contract modeling standards, and cross-functional initiatives to join and enrich data across 30+ data providers. Define entity relationships and lineage analysis for engineering, regulatory teams, and portfolio managers through microservices architecture for distribution.
- Enable data markers to indicate data availability SLAs and integrate APIs with Qlik for reporting and data visualization, reducing the overhead of report run times running up to ~2 hours, to ~4-5 minutes.
- Responsible for the overall hygiene of technical documentation including API meta specifications for entity discovery for our users, licensing, API versioning, uptime, historical data availability, entitlement-based subscription for users.

Lakshmi🇺🇸