United States

AI/ML Engineering

Generative AI

Data Engineering

Manas Talukdar

Founder

AI/ML

GitHub

Apache Spark

Axure

CircleCI

Databricks

Jira

Pandas

REST API

Airtable

Node.js

Kafka

Java

JavaScript

Greenhouse

Jenkins

Jupyter Notebook

Numpy

Python

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Communication

Collaboration

Time management

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Leadership

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Project management

Public Speaking

Analytical skills

Advanced data analytics

Blog writing

Brand strategy

Business intelligence

Cloud computing

Data mining

Data visualisation

Database management

Design systems

Human computer interaction

Machine learning

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Whitepaper/ebook Writing

Product roadmap

Product strategy

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

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

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

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

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

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

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

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

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

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

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

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

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

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

Working cross-functionally

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

● Manager of managers. Supporting org of 6 teams building multi-cloud, distributed data infra PaaS for large-scale AI/ML applications. Specific initiatives include data integration (http://bit.ly/3Zf2Xi1), data exploration (https://bit.ly/3IbC2Pb) and productionization (https://bit.ly/3WSZg0s), feature store (http://bit.ly/3Z1zCXU), vector stores for GenAI, AI/ML application development tooling (https://bit.ly/3SnJN7y), etc.

● Grew the Data org from 3 to 5 teams. Led initiatives in data infra, distributed computing, ML, dev tooling, UI framework.
● Established structures across org for growth and retention. Drove growth by mentoring employees into key roles in both IC and management track, hiring high-impact talent and resource planning for initiatives.
● Drove growth across department by hiring ICs and recruiting engineering managers. Coached new managers. Started a newsletter for sharing technical information and departmental updates.

● Established the Data org within Platform engineering department. Ensured delivery of high-impact projects. Led performance benchmarking against industry solutions. Grew a team of 6 to an org of ~20 engineers across 3 teams. Defined charter for each team. Mentored senior engineers to lead roles for each team. Drove growth across department. Established a new interviewing framework. Worked with Talent Acquisition to streamline hiring process.
● As part of department leadership refined expected signals and attributes for each role and level in IC track. Instituted a framework for promoting engineers, specially to lead role.
● Started data-driven performance analysis across engineering department for developers and teams, mining data from Jira, GitHub, Git, etc. Instituted a 360⁰ feedback framework. Started Lunch & Learn initiative for sharing and translating tribal knowledge into technical documentation.

● Managed, grew a team working on distributed PaaS, SaaS metadata solutions [https://bit.ly/2FZfzED] for high-throughput streaming data to enable asset management using context.  Enabled  data science through rule-based metadata generation. Maintained an on-prem event notifications product [https://bit.ly/3uNi84j]. Managed dependencies across teams, guided design decisions. Managed backlog, drove road-map. Improved sprint velocity by 50%.

● Started new team for large-scale IoT data collection project [https://bit.ly/3nOpaS0 | https://bit.ly/3af97rd]. Interviewed candidates for hiring into the team. Gathered requirements, defined product direction. Motivated source control in Git. Developed APIs, logging infra, data egress from IoT module to enterprise data stores.

● Founded and grew a high-value team working on cloud-native distributed Sequential Data Store [https://bit.ly/2FZfzED] to process billions of streams from millions of devices.  Identified requirements, defined architecture, developed road-map. Hired, on-boarded, enabled developers in team. Took project from prototype to product. Developed caching service. Managed SDLC. Introduced CI/CD. Researched partner technologies, provided feedback [https://bit.ly/2DwSLe4]. Presented at meetings, conferences.

PaaS Product  (Storage Solution; Core Platform and Infrastructure) (Feb 2015 - Jan 2016) [https://bit.ly/2FZfzED]:
● Architected and developed scalable, distributed micro-services using new cloud technology – Service Fabric [https://bit.ly/2HvQXGf].
● Security champion for team. Threat modeled components and data flow in the project and led review sessions.
● Architected full-stack real-time health monitoring and logging system with data access and client APIs.
● On-boarded and mentored new engineers in project.

PaaS, SaaS R&D Project  (Storage Solution; Core Platform and Infrastructure) (June 2014 - Jan 2015) [https://bit.ly/2FZfzED]:
● Founding team member and lead developer in charge of creating core platform, infrastructure for distributed streaming-data PaaS and SaaS products. Developed components of a multi-tenant distributed data store. Added functionality for data replication. Developed automated multi-threaded chaos tests. Created standards for DevOps - passed on to other engineers. 
● Architected and developed a real-time health monitoring framework. Mentored new engineer in project.

SaaS Product (Feb 2013 - June 2014) [https://bit.ly/3liljOb]:
● Part of team that developed first cloud product at OSIsoft.
● Developed front-end and back-end components of cloud-based enterprise SaaS product for process data transfers.
● Developed secure RESTful APIs. Did threat modeling of cloud services and corresponding on-prem components.
● Architected and developed an Alarm infrastructure and a cloud based dynamic software delivery and auto-update system for multiple tenants across multiple enterprises. 
● Enhanced SQL database schema and developed full stack from server side data-access layer to client side APIs. 
● Developed DevOps tools and data-mining queries for reporting on health statuses  of multi-tenant cloud application.
● Developed multi-layered modular and scalable Wpf applications. 
● Consistently delivered committed items in fast-paced, quick turn-around, scrum based development cycles. Led knowledge transfer sessions to handover work to new team member(s) while transitioning to a R&D project.

Middleware (SDK) Product (May 2011 - Feb 2013) [https://bit.ly/3rvmxqC]:
● Enhanced and maintained code-base (specifically data buffering) for core middleware.
● Developed and maintained software delivery systems using WiX and Wise.
● Developed and maintained test automation frameworks using C++, .NET, SQL.

Manas Talukdar🇺🇸