Pooja Swati Bansal

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VP of Engineering at Loom Systems | ex-EY

Loom Systems
Kolkata, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
University of Delhi
English, Hindi, Bengali
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Overview

VP of Engineering at Loom Systems, focused on data pipelines. Cut p99 latency on the data platform services from 822ms to 76ms. Led the migration of 75 services to Kafka. Before that: EY and Ola. Most at home with Iceberg and Python. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

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Skills
PythonAirflowKafkaIcebergSparkSQL
HiringHiring for a role
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Hiring a founding security engineer for the data platform team - Kolkata or remote

Role
Founding security engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Compensation
₹50-55 LPA
Team
Data platform, 8 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp ₹32-63 LPA. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Kolkata, India · remote OKpythonairflowkafka

Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Apr 2022 - Present
    Loom Systems · 4 yr 6 mo · Contract · Kolkata, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the data platform services from 878ms to 87ms.
    • Wrote the Airflow service that now handles 28 million requests a day.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    May 2020 - Apr 2022
    EY · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the data platform services from 820ms to 66ms.
    • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Staff Data Engineer
    Sep 2018 - May 2020
    Ola · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Cut forecast error from 26% to 12% across 2355 SKUs.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2016 - Sep 2018
    Capgemini · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
    • Led the migration of 54 services to Kafka.
    • Shipped 28 launches on the data platform team without a rollback.
  5. Director of Engineering
    Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
    Salesforce · 1 yr 9 mo · Contract · Kolkata, India
    • Wrote the Kafka service that now handles 36 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. University of Delhi
    B.Com, Electronics and Communication
    1996 - 2000

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