hozefaj / downshift

🏎 Primitives to build simple, flexible, WAI-ARIA compliant enhanced input React components

Summary

• 5+ years engineering management experience at Meta, Wealthfront, and PayPal.
• Experience building high-performing teams, growing ICs, hiring, and cross-team collaboration
• 10+ years experience in building applications for product teams using technologies like HTML, CSS, JS, react, typescript, graphQL etc.

Work History

Senior Engineering Manager, Maven Clinic

• Working to improve healthcare for women one family at a time. Check out www.mavenclinic.com.

Engineering Manager, Meta

• Managing FB Subscriptions team that allows people to monetize through FB. We are responsible for over 50k users earning over $20M monthly through >1.3M subscribers
• It's a 16-person team consisting of ICs and an engineering manager.

Engineering Manager, Wealthfront

• Engineering manager for Wealthfront's Path(financial modelling) product that calculated users' net worth over time based on transaction data for over >2M linked accounts across 500k users.
• Also, I managed the fraud & risk team tasked to bring down monthly fraud from $1M to under $20k per month  -  built tooling, monitoring, user controls and alerting to prevent and reduce fraud.

Engineering Manager, PayPal

• Managed the consumer home team serving over 300M users and the content/page authoring and platform team, allowing marketers to publish content in real-time to PayPal's marketing website. The platform supported over 50k pages in 200 countries and 30+ languages.

Staff Software Engineer, PayPal

• Led the personalization team that built tooling to enable channel messaging for every PayPal user and complete e2e management of marketing campaigns. This brought about a reduction in time to market for campaigns by over 60%.
• Developed the offers portal, which allows users to browse and save(or redeem) offers to their PayPal wallet. The effort saved ~$1M in external hosting and agency costs.

Senior Software Engineer, PayPal

• Technical lead for EMEA, CA & Latam regions, scoping technical requirements with design agencies and marketing stakeholders.
• Worked with accessibility, performance, SEO & site-reliability teams to make sure PayPal's website met performance, reliability and availability goals.

Education

Course	College	Duration
Masters in Computer Science	Illinois Institute of Technology	Jan '09 - Dec '10
Bachelor's in Engineering	Mumbai University	June '03 - May '07

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