Thomas Furtado

Overview

Currently at Maple Analytics, where I lead search and ranking with a team of 60. Grew the search team from 3 to 12 engineers. Brought on-call pages for search down from 16 a week to 1. Most at home with learning to rank and Python. Kannada theatre fan.

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Dec 2022 - Present
   Maple Analytics · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on search by 42% in two quarters.
   • Built the experimentation framework 8 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Moved 78% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Software Engineer

   Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
   Intel · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 739ms to 110ms.
3. Software Engineer

   May 2017 - Oct 2020
   HCLTech · 3 yr 5 mo · Contract · Kochi, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on search by 21% in two quarters.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 5.
4. Software Engineer

   Oct 2014 - Jan 2017
   JPMorgan Chase · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 449ms to 48ms.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 2.

Projects

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Education

1. Manipal Institute of Technology

   B.Tech, Computer Science
   2010 - 2014