Chaitanya Bagaria
Head of Engineering
at Sirona Medical
EXPERIENCE
Head of Engineering, Workspace Oct 2022 – Present
Director of Engineering Feb 2021 – Oct 2022
Senior Engineering Manager Jun 2019 – Feb 2021
Engineering Manager Jun 2018 – Jun 2019
Staff Software Engineer Sep 2017 – Jun 2018Senior Software Engineer Oct 2015 – Sep 2017
Software Engineer Jul 2014 – Oct 2015
+ Responsible for engineering WePay's product stack targeted at Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Includes APIs,
SDKs, mPOS/POS/online payments features, terminal and card-reader
lifecycles, and all UI/UX.
+ Scaled the API+Mobile+UI/UX+Payments org 6x in 4 years (60+ engineers).
+ Engineering lead for mobile and server SDK products, and the mobile point of sale (mPOS) card reader program.
+ Engineering lead for WePay’s API redesign project.
+ Engineering lead for integrating ApplePay and AndroidPay on the web as payment methods.
+ Started the mobile program from scratch and grew the team from 0 to 15 members.
+ Designed, developed, tested, documented, released, and supported mobile(iOS, Android) API and SDKs.
+ Designed, developed, tested, and released backend(PHP, Java, MySQL) web API.
+ Documented, maintained, and supported full suite of web API SDKs.
+ Integrated and administered Github’s Hubot on Hipchat and Slack for WePay.
Software Engineer Aug 2012 – Jun 2014
Game Closure Devkit: Cross-platform HTML5 social mobile gaming sdk
+ Designed, developed, tested and documented new features for the devkit on iOS, Android and HTML5.
+ Designed social APIs such as leaderboards, gifts, messaging, and push notifications and implemented client libraries.
+ Designed and implemented(python) social APIs on Google App Engine.
+ Gathered technical requirements and determine feasibility of design for native iOS and Android features.User Acquisition, Marketing and Analytics (6 month project)
+ Managed the team responsible for global apps release, marketing, growth and related analytics.
+ Responsible for localization of the apps, maintaining the android app store pages and for making app releases.
+ Researched and implemented best practices for mobile user acquisition. Documented findings for training new managers.
+ Ran live campaigns over multiple channels for several android social games to acquire over 500k users.
+ Developed(Python) tools for automating reporting of all marketing efforts and results into a unified dashboard.
+ Developed(JavaScript) a web-based analytics dashboard to visualize custom KPIs and app metrics.
Product Engineer Jun 2010 – Aug 2012
ArcLogistics: Software Solution for Fleet Route Planning
+ Designed, tested, released, and supported ESRI software for logistics of fleet management, scheduling and route planning.
+ Defined user requirements and applied best practices for using GIS software in various real-world scenarios.
+ Developed and documented software tools and GIS methods while identifying workflow enhancements.
+ Deployed and managed elastic ArcGIS servers on Amazon’s EC2 cloud platform.ArcLogistics Navigator: Companion iOS app
+ Designed, implemented(Objective-C), tested and deployed universal(iPhone/iPad) enterprise app for navigation and tracking.
+ Implemented turn-by-turn voice guidance, automatic re-routing, two-way real-time update of schedule, job status and location.ArcLogistics Plugin Framework
+ Documented and supported ArcLogistics Plugin SDK (C# .Net)
+ Delivered SDK, complete with several sample plugins, source code, tutorials and installation guide.
Visiting Graduate Student Jun 2009 – Aug 2009
Visiting Graduate Student May 2008 – Jul 2008
Student Intern for Dr. Tomasz Stepinski
Lunar and Planetary Institute
+ Designed and Implemented (Matlab, Java, Python) algorithms for mapping, analysis and classification of planetary surfaces.
+ Integrated 3rd party solutions for multi-spectral clustering, unsupervised learning, hierarchical segmentation.
+ Used ESRI ArcGIS for analysis and processing of spatial data, and for creating classified maps.
+ Verified and published results for terrestrial (Earth) and extra-terrestrial (Mars) data.
+ National Science Foundation Grant: IIS - 0812271.
Research Assistant Aug 2007 – Dec 2009
Research Assistant for Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition
Department of Computer Science
+ Designed and implemented (Matlab) various algorithms for mapping and analyzing land surfaces, segmentation based classification, semi-supervised learning, and hierarchical learning.
+ Verified and published results obtained from analysis of artificial and real-world data.
+ National Science Foundation Grant: IIS - 0431130 & IIS - 0812372.EDUCATION
University of Houston
MS Computer Science 2007 – 2009
Nagpur University
BE Computer Science and Engineering 2003 – 2007
Hyderabad Public School
2001 – 2003
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