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Akanksha Gupta

Engineering Manager

New York, United States English
Usually responds in 1 day
$200 / hour
Price per hour
15 min30 min
Time Blocks Available
5.00
11 reviews / 13 sessions
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13
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Bio

I have mentored people from early in career to mid-career stage and am a big advocate of Women in tech. Hit me up to talk about hiring, interviewing, leadership, management, growing engineers, performance management etc.

Expertise

  • Building a team

    Experienced engineering manager with experience managing full-stack teams and building teams from scratch- including hiring, interviewing and keeping the bar high.

  • Product management

    Experienced with product launches and management in the space of promotions and pricing of Audiblebooks(Audible/Amazon) and fintech products with experience from Robinhood.

  • Venting frustration

    I am a patient active listener, and can you help with guidance on how to tackle ambiguous work situations. Also, can use the opportunity to share my own personal experiences and learnings from career.

Toolkit

  • Jira logo

    Jira

    Well versed with using Jira as part of team and project tracking. Can help with basic and advanced queries and generation of reports. Hit me up for help on this.

  • LinkedIn Ads logo

    LinkedIn Ads

    Active Linkedin user with experience using it to hire people from my companies to using it when looking for jobs. Can guide you with usage, making a strong profile, looking for recruiters etc

Industries

  • Cloud Management

    An experienced Engineering Manager currently working with Amazon AWS where she leads full stack team(s). Prior to AWS, she worked with Robinhood, Audible(Amazon subsidiary) and Microsoft. She has been a mentor to people from early in career to mid career stage and is a huge advocate of Women in technology. Learn more about her at Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akankshaguptamgr/

  • Information Technology

    An experienced Engineering Manager currently working with Amazon AWS where she leads full stack team(s). Prior to AWS, she worked with Robinhood, Audible(Amazon subsidiary) and Microsoft. She has been a mentor to people from early in career to mid career stage and is a huge advocate of Women in technology. Learn more about her at Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akankshaguptamgr/

Experience

  • Audible, Inc.

    Software Development Manager

    • Manager of Audible Shopping Experience team, owning experiences around promotions and pricing that help provide customers incentives to make a buying decision sooner rather than later by providing discounted price or benefits such as coupons, free content etc. •The team is a full-stack team owning frontend to backend. The team utilizes Agile Scrum organizing backlogs and sprints using Jira and Amazon internal task management tool Simple Issue Manager (SIM). • Launched capabilities to support flexible promotions and pricing capabilities for customers, enabling marketers through self-service tools. • Conducted several interviews at Audible/Amazon and I am also an Amazon Bar Raiser.

  • Audible, Inc.

    Software Development Engineer

    • Working in Audible Promotions and Pricing team

  • Audible, Inc.

    Software Developer Intern

    • Working on power purchase and subscription flows pertaining to content and existing and new memberships in Membership and Ordering team at Audible • Responsible for critical services that serve as the points of entry for customer-initiated requests as well as backend asynchronous processes. • Migrated critical Audible membership service from legacy messaging system to AWS SQS. • Ensured the service is CI CD.

  • Microsoft

    Software Engineer
    •microsoft.com

    • In my position as a Technical Consultant with Microsoft, I was involved with project research, planning, design and testing within the Software Development team. I worked with various customers from USA, Abu Dhabi, HongKong and several other Microsoft offerings I was responsible for automation of upgrades from older versions of deployed infrastructure to cloud and latest platforms for Microsoft clients. The blend of Infrastructure and development skills is my forte. • I was also extensively involved in the Enterprise Modernization worldwide offering where I and my team made efforts to modernize Microsoft customers from Windows Server and SQL end of life cycle to the latest platforms and towards "Cloud First, Mobile First" strategy!

  • Microsoft

    Summer Intern
    •microsoft.com

    • Worked on the latest and greatest of the Microsoft technology stack to produce high-quality solutions to add value to Microsoft Services as a team in a 8 week time-frame. • Went through the complete SDLC cycle to deliver project within given time constraint.

  • HCL Infosystems Ltd

    Summer intern

    • Worked on the project “ONLINE JOB SEARCH ENGINE” The search engine provided a platform for the job seeker and recruiter to interact. • It helped reduce the manual work and automated the recruitment process.

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