Shirin Shaista Rashid

Overview

23 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Umber Mobility, where I lead the developer platform team. Moved 95% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: American Express and Samsung R&D. Most at home with observability and service mesh.

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Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Sep 2023 - Present
   Umber Mobility · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Wrote the service mesh service that now handles 60 million requests a day.
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 32% in two quarters.
2. Senior Engineering Manager

   May 2022 - Sep 2023
   American Express · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 4.
3. Platform Engineer

   Feb 2019 - May 2022
   Samsung R&D · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 14 a week to 1.
4. Platform Engineer

   Oct 2016 - Feb 2019
   Google · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 5.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Jul 2015 - Oct 2016
   Mphasis · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Led the migration of 64 services to service mesh.

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Education

1. Shri Ram College of Commerce

   B.Com, Computer Science
   1998 - 2002