Sanjay Ashwin Patel

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Director of Engineering at Sony | ex-Sea

Sony
Singapore · SGT (UTC+8)
12+ years experience
Yonsei University
English, Mandarin
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Overview

Based in Singapore. I lead embedded systems at Sony. Grew the firmware team from 4 to 32 engineers. Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 464ms to 135ms. I read too many books about cities.

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Skills
CBluetooth LERTOShardware bring-up

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Feb 2024 - Present
    Sony · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Shipped 21 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
    • Built the experimentation framework 8 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Sep 2020 - Feb 2024
    Sea · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Led or co-led 21 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Sit on 4 boards.
  3. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
    Lazada · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Led the migration of 38 services to hardware bring-up.
  4. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Dec 2015 - Mar 2019
    CIMB · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 610ms to 150ms.
  5. Staff Embedded Engineer
    Jun 2014 - Dec 2015
    Boston Consulting Group · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Built the experimentation framework 20 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 21% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. Yonsei University
    BA, Electrical Engineering
    1999 - 2003

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