Aamir Farooq

Trusted Engineering leader (15+ years experience) with a proven track record of nurturing and scaling inspired, inclusive and diverse engineering organizations through building engineering leadership, leveling up engineers and instilling enterprise-class rigor that leads to consistent, high quality product delivery. • Leadership rooted in empathy and core values of ownership, passion, trust, integrity, fearlessness and transparency • Ability to energize, inspire and motivate • Great listener who leans towards consensus and engagement but will not shy from driving hard decisions with urgency • Not afraid to challenge the norm, think the unconventional and push the pace • Foster a people-first engineering culture that balances reducing scope, shipping early, and building code for the long-term • Extensive experience in building and scaling leadership teams both through external hiring and internal transition • Ability to identify, recruit and retain diverse, multidisciplinary (Frontend, Backend, ML, Performance, DevOps, UX, etc) talent in both competitive and emerging markets • Able to adapt organizations to changing market and product landscapes while ensuring long term success of organization and product architecture in both startup and large environments • Great developer of talent (junior to senior engineers, managers to directors) with adaptive leadership style that builds long term relationships • Experience building and leading distributed engineering teams (onshore & offshore) and driving culture change to ensure that all engineers are engaged and successful regardless of location • Inherent ability to nurture collaboration across the company (engineering, customer success, sales and services) • Successful maturation of organizations from reactive to proactive by leveraging data and insights (SLOs, SLAs and Product Usage Metrics) • Leverage years of experience to anticipate challenges and obstacles, and be comfortable dealing with ambiguity • Thought leader driven to advance the overall state of technology, architecture and customer focus for the entire engineering organization • Extensive experience in Enterprise SAAS space leveraging both private and public cloud technologies including Google and Amazon Web Services • Delivered developer productivity improvements through both devops/tooling transformation (CI/CD, build/test/deploy, release infrastructure) and appropriate investment in underlying product architecture