Shiv Shankar

Director of Engineering

June 2022 - Present

Manage and grow the engineering org at Ava Labs that manages the Avalanche chain.

Head of Engineering (Onb)

July 2021 - June 2022

Manage different aspects of the retail and instiutional customer onboarding journey with a focus on legal tech to manage compliance across all markets and crypto products.

Sr. Engineering Manager

June 2018 - July 2021

Manage different aspects of the Driver journey - from onboarding to offboarding across all markets.

Software Development Manager

Feb 2017 - May 2018

Managed engagement teams at Alexa Voice Shopping - focused on ushering in a new era of voice enabled shopping experiences.

sr. engineering manager

July 2015 - Feb 2017

Building safe, reliable and affordable solutions to improve people's commutes. Managed pricing, driver incentives and passenger lifecycle management teams.

software engineer

May 2014 - June 2015

Designing, building and maintaining the services for the core client application of Lookout. Also creating new functionality for enterprise iterations of the product.

software engineer

Oct 2011 - May 2014

Worked in SQL Server as part of the core Storage Engine team. As part of the path breaking Hekaton team, was instrumental in releasing Microsoft SQL Server's first in-memory database engine as part of the SQL Server 2014 release.

software engineer

Aug 2009 - July 2011

I was a software developer at MoSync where I dabbled with product testing, marketing and product management at different intervals of time as well.

EDUCATION

National university of singapore

Computer Science

kungliga tekniska högskolan

Entrepreneurship

Purdue university

Economics