Resume: Sankate Sharma

Email: sankate@sankate.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sankate/

Summary

Sankate Sharma is a seasoned engineering leader with 20+ years of experience of building scalable distributed systems. Expertise in building and managing distributed teams, developing and retaining top engineering talent, defining engineering processes to ensure quality standards, maintaining and optimizing budget, and executing the product lifecycle from concept to delivery.

Experience

Engineering Leader at Meta Inc. (June 2022 - Present) - Menlo Park, CA

Responsible for supporting Business Messaging organization.

Director of Engineering at WePay Inc. JPMorgan Chase company ( Feb 2015 - June 2022 ) - Redwood City, CA USA

Responsible for running the entire Small business engineering (SMB) org that deals with customer experiences, realtime reporting, pricing, billing, webhooks, emails, notifications, and reconciliation.
Scaled the engineering team from 20 engineers to ~200+.
Managed seamless integration of WePay with Chase as a result of acquisition of WePay by JP Morgan Chase in Q4 2017.
Refactored the engineering stack to handle 10X transaction volume by migrating to cloud and adopting service oriented, Java micro services architecture.
Rolled out LinkedD based service mesh for robust management of micro services, CI / CD pipelines to achieve multiple releases per day, gatekeeper frameworks for doing blue green deployments and maintaining five 9’s of uptime.
Expanded the processor integrations to support processing of different currencies like CAD and GBP.
Reduced interchange cost by migrating the USD processing from WorldPay to Chase without incurring any downtime.
Implemented automated data pipelines based on Google Data flow (Apache Beam) to support daily reconciliation and near real time reporting.
Defined engineering SAL / SLO’s and prioritization guidelines to make an efficient working model between engineering and product orgs.
Defined the company wide processes for design reviews, engineering promotions and engineering career growth.

Architect at Intuit Inc. ( Feb 2010 - Jan 2015 ) - Mountain View, CA USA

Responsible for cloud strategy and roadmap for SBG group (Quickbooks online).
Provided technical leadership to a geographically dispersed team including teams in Mountain View, India and Orem, UT.
Defined the architecture for cloud native offering of Intuit Websites (Homestead Inc.)

Staff Engineer at Motorola Inc. ( 2006 - 2010 ) - Sunnyvale, CA USA

Led the initiative to develop the first MOTOBLUR set-top box integration along with Flickr and Pandora app’s that were showcased at various trade shows like CES.
Delivered successful external communications, team presentations, and trained marketing teams on social media integration. This social media integration work won a Bravo award.
Worked on various engineering roles in the mobile (Android) and embedded (set-top box) groups.

Software Engineer ( 1997 - 2006 )

Nokia Inc - Mountain View, CA USA :Worked on Centralized Network Services Manager to manage ISN elements like Flexi# ISN, GGSN and TA, etc. Responsible for developing server side components to manage charging, network access server etc.
Union Pacific Railroad (ProKarma Inc.) - Omaha, NE USA :Built a bill of lading and freight tracking web based application using the Railroad EDI specification to replace existing mainframe systems.
Patni Computer Systems - New York, NY USA : Worked on various projects for Honeywell, NY stock exchange, Pitney Bowes and lead an offshore development group located in New Delhi, India
Newgen Software - Cupertino, CA USA and New Delhi, India : Worked on projects for Sun Microsystems and a startup (Realcommunities Inc.) in the USA. Implemented document management system for Canon Inc.
Network Programs - Noida, India: Worked on a Video on demand implementation for Fujitsu

Languages Tools, and Frameworks

Java, Python, Spring, MySQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Flutter

Education

MS Software Engineering from San Jose State University, CA, USA

BTech Computer Sciences from Rohilkhand University, UP, India

Patents

Pre-built user interface for payment system and method US11436601B2 · Issued Aug 17, 2022