ANINDO ROY
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41743 Olympus Ave, Fremont, CA 94539
+1 510 979 9425 anindo.roy@gmail.com
PROFILE
An driven software development professional with 23+ years of technical and management experience, poised for a
role of Vice-President level or above in the Enterprise software or Internet / Cloud / SaaS domain; has a track record of
initiating and driving new technology concepts to market; ability to define technology vision and coordinate entire
software development lifecycle and take products from concept to market; expert in establishing distributed global
product development organizations; a specialist in agile / scum practices.
Technical Competencies:
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Voice Technologies & VoIP (SIP, RTP, Parlay,
IMS)
Web Services (SOAP / WSDL)
Real Time Collaboration (Digital / Web
Conferencing, Presence / IM)
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Scalability, HA, Fault Tolerant systems
Java,/J2EE/C/C++
Databases (Oracle, MySQL)
Web FE Technologies (HTML5, CSS, Node.js)
Proven Performance:
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Delivered consumer Web experience at Internet scale in US and International market: 2014 FIFA World Cup
Soccer experience in Yahoo Sports with 2B page views – from concept to deployment.
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Directed development of J2EE compliant (JSR116) SIP application development platform from inception to
market. Managed 2 company acquisitions from start to finish.
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Led development of Real-Time Collaboration (RTC) tools (Web Conferencing, Presence, IM) from inception to
market; fully involved in three strategic technology acquisitions and product strategy.
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Scored in the top 5% of Yahoo-wide Manager Effectiveness Survey in 2012
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Managed & led workforce in multiple counties including US, Sweden, UK, India, Taiwan and Singapore.
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Earned 5 technology patents for work done in RTC and databases.
EXPERIENCE
YAHOO!,
Sunnyvale, CA & Bangalore, IN
2012 to 2014 (3 years)
VICE PRESIDENT, ENGINEERING: Hired at this role to lead Yahoo’s Homepage & Verticals (Media) engineering team
of around 300 in Asia (Bangalore, Taiwan & Singapore) to deliver Yahoo’s global experiences; part of the executive
management team in Sunnyvale setting strategies and vision for the entire organization.
Delivered Key Global Products: Successfully delivered key global products in Yahoo’s Home Page and Verticals
portfolio including 2014 FIFA World Cup with 2B page views
 Led product development, product management, design, QA and Cloud deployment of the products
 Involved in technology strategies and coordinated activities across operations, sales and marketing
Lead Team Transformation: Evolved the organization in a year from being a purely execution focused resource
center to a development group delivering business focused innovative solutions.
 Implemented programs to familiarize team with business context; interaction with business partners, PMs, sales.
 Institutionalized out-of-the-box thinking through training, hack-days, interactions with startups.
 Moved staffing from outsourced contractors to full time employee based developers.
Managed Workforce: Right sized the Bangalore team to save multi-million dollars.
 Eliminated 150 contractors using automation of development and elimination of low value work.
 Hired key senior architects to complement junior workforce, managed out low performers.
ANINDO ROY
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+91 9731312172  +1 510 979 9425
 anindo.roy@gmail.com
Built Strategic Alignment: As part of the Homepage & Verticals executive management team in US, helped define a
winning strategy for the remote workforce in Bangalore. .
 Created co-located, engineering, design and product management teams to work on International priorities
 Implemented trust-forming initiatives to help HQ workforce to work more effectively with remote peer teams.
Scored in the top 5% of Yahoo-wide Manager Effectiveness Survey in 2012
FAIR ISAAC Corp (FICO) , Santa Monica, CA & Bangalore, IN
2010 to 2012 (2 years)
VICE PRESIDENT, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Hired at this role to be the Site Leader of the FICO development team in
Bangalore; additional delivery responsibility of FICO’s global technology platform. Also part of the executive
management team in Santa Monica.
Transformed FICO Bangalore engineering team –Transformed FICO’s largest development center from a silo-ed
resource center into a strategic center for FICO’s engineering and analytical work.
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Implemented development practices to break down silos and implement collaboration & communication.
Hired senior leadership to make it stronger and mature, enabling the center to pick up independent deliverables.
Delivered the vision of a common technology platform – This became the foundation for all FICO applications.
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Provided technology and management leadership to deliver high quality software platform under tight timelines.
Hired key engineers to create a well-balanced, highly motivated, customer focused team.
ORACLE CORP, Bangalore, INDIA
2007 to 2009 (2 years)
SENIOR DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, Voice, Mobility, & Communications Group (2007 to 2009): Promoted
to this role to lead the formation and growth of a high performing development team in India.
Started the VMC group’s development center in India –This team provided strategic support to the booming Asian
telecommunication market.
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Helped create a motivated seed team of developers to lay the foundation of this group.
ORACLE CORP., Redwood Shores, CA
1995 to 2007 (12 years)
DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, Voice, Mobility, & Communications Group (2005 to 2007): Advanced to this
role to direct the development of an emerging Digital Voice technology and associated applications. Managed
development teams across US, Sweden, and India.
Delivered the first version of the Oracle Communications and Mobility Server – a J2EE compliant SIP
application development platform for developing robust, multimedia, VoIP or other realtime applications.
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Played key role in the acquisition of companies in Norway and Sweden that provided the core technology for this
platform. Led technical due diligence, retention of talent and effective use of competencies.
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Recruited and mobilized domain experts in the company to review design and architecture to address critical
technical issues including performance, scalability, and high availability.
Led development of key applications based on the platform - Proxy-Registrar, Location Service and IMS
compliant Presence applications. The former is used for building rich voice applications, while the latter is used to
store and distribute presence information over the network.
Introduced SCRUM development practices – Led a corporate culture change from the traditional waterfall model,
to facilitate agility and predictability in the development process.
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Improved communication amongst developers through daily SCRUMS, essential in raising productivity. This
also enabled distributed teams in USA, Sweden and India to work more effectively
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ANINDO ROY
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+91 9731312172  +1 510 979 9425
 anindo.roy@gmail.com
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Provided transparency and visibility into the development process by using appropriate tools and processes.
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Enabled easy project monitoring and management even with remote teams by introducing Sprint Planning and
Sprint Review sessions
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Empowered developers to exercise greater control over the implementation of their projects by shielding teams
from adhoc reprioritization during development Sprints.
DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, Real Time Collaboration Group (2001 to 2005): Led development and
contributed to go-to market strategy for RTC (Web Conferencing, Presence / IM)
Headed Team Setup - Built, launched, and managed development teams in the US and India, Personally hired top
talents from MIT, UCLA, IIT, NASA, Cisco. Groomed the brightest talents in the industry, many of whom advanced
to strategic positions.
Managed Development of core functionality – Led build or buy decisions, technology roadmap, architectural
reviews.
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Drove acquisition of 3Cube.
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Played a key role in the acquisition of Jabber technology and its integration into RTC.
Drove global adoption strategy across Oracle’s 45,000 employees.
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Introduced the concept of “Contextual Collaboration”. Developed Web Services (SOAP) to integrate RTC into
business applications.
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Successfully drove the introduction of RTC in Sales organization using “Contextual Collaboration”.
SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, Real Time Collaboration Group: (2000 to 2001): Recruited to initiate
and drive RTC strategy within Oracle.
MANAGER, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, Database Kernel Group (1999 to 2000): Coordinated critical features within the
Oracle 8i Database Server. Directed the development of Oracle Call Interface V8, the most widely used C access API for
Oracle Database. Defined and delivered Oracle Database Cache, the first in-memory database cache on the market. Also
delivered the strategic database project OCI Everywhere that was critical in improving performance and product
maintenance.
PRINCIPAL TECHNICAL DEVELOPER (1995 to 1999): Designed and developed Shared OCI, a project to reduce the
memory footprint of middle-tier OCI applications by caching and sharing SQL execution context. Also, kept pace with
the market by providing LOB (large object) support; designed and developed the streaming API to transfer large amounts
of binary and text data between the database server and the client. Implemented globalization (NCHAR) support.
LCG CONSULTING, Los Altos, CA
1991 to 1995
SOFTWARE ENGINEER:
Worked in a Startup environment and developed and implemented an MS-Windows based, state-of-the-art planning and
optimizing software for use in the natural gas and electric utility industry.
EDUCATION
MS COMPUTER SCIENCE, & MS CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
PATENTS
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Patent 7580971 (Database): Method and apparatus for efficient SQL processing in an n-tier architecture
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ANINDO ROY
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+91 9731312172  +1 510 979 9425
 anindo.roy@gmail.com
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Patent 6721809 (Database) : Method and apparatus for configuring extensible application programming interfaces
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Patent 7398464 (RTC): System and method for converting an electronically stored document
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Patent 7149776 (RTC) : System and method for real-time co-browsing
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Patent 7370269 (RTC): System and method for real-time annotation of a co-browsed document
PUBLICATIONS
Primary Author: “Oracle Real-Time Collaboration Integration Services Guide” (2004)
Contributing Author: “Programmer’s Guide to Oracle Call Interface” June 1997
SPEECH & PANEL MEMBER
Instant Messaging Planet Conference: “Giving Presence to Telephony and Multimedia Conferencing” (2004)
Keynote Speaker, Oracle Develop, Mumbai: “ Rich Enterprise Application” (2009)
Speaker and Panel Member, W3C INDIA HTML5 Conference, New Delhi, India (2013)
Panel Member at the NASSCOM Product Conclave 2014 (Bangalore) on the topic “Building Products from Scratch in
India” (http://sched.co/1vM14qA)
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