Bhargav Natarajan
Head of Engineering Productivity, Managing Director - CCB at JPMorganChase [Hiring at all levels]
Los Altos, California
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Engineering Productivity, Managing Director CCB at JPMorganChase
2023 - Current
I lead Engineering Productivity for CCB (Chase @ JPMC) and support an extremely talented group of engineers and teams that are building tools, frameworks and platforms in order to radically transform the productivity and experience of >16000 engineers. We are hiring across all levels. Reach out to me if making an impact at a scale that just a handful of companies in the world possess.
Morgan Health is the healthcare investment arm of JPMorgan Chase.
Sr. Director Of Engineering
2019 - 2023
I lead Engineering Productivity across all of Palo Alto Networks as well as the SRE and Test teams within the Cloud Management and Data Platform org. My teams build and maintain the tools, GCP infrastructure, automation frameworks and are responsible for ensuring a very high product and production quality bar. We are part of an amazing team that is building exabyte scale cloud platforms to keep enterprises safe, secure and trustworthy.
Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Raised $65,000,000.00 from Northgate Capital, Icon Ventures, Japan Asia Investment, Lehman Holdings, Greylock, Globespan Capital Partners and Sequoia Capital.
Head of Engineering Productivity
2017 - 2019
I led an extremely talented group of engineers that worked on building innovative tools and frameworks in order to improve the velocity and quality of the code and products produced by engineers across Pinterest. The products built by my teams improved the developer's experience allowing them to do their best work in creating an amazing journey to inspiration for the 300+ million people who use Pinterest every month. Our focus areas included: Continuous Integration and Deployment - Transformed and transitioned to Continuous deploys for Web and Api leading to extremely high satisfaction and excitement with the engineering organization and leading to a marked improvement in quality and velocity. Metrics Quality - Develop our client-side experimentation and logging/metrics frameworks in partnership with the Data organization at Pinterest to build a super fast, reliable and extremely accurate pipeline. Build & Test Tooling - Develop tools & frameworks that reduce build times, increase build and dev tool reliability, simplify and speed up automated testing resulting in increased confidence in our product quality. I also led the Core Platform teams for Android, iOS and Web in an interim basis for nearly a year while we hired the right leaders for those teams. In addition, I collaborated with all teams on tactical and strategic initiatives for the overall end-to-end Developer Productivity program across Pinterest.
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Raised $1,486,100,000.00 from Elliott Investment Management and Elliott Investment Management.
Senior Engineering Manager
2016 - 2017
Bootstrapping the Productivity Engineering team and building the platform that will allow Twilio engineers to ship more often with higher quality. My team is responsible for: - Maintaining and improving our source code management & build infrastructure - Architecting and implementing Artifactory as our artifact management system - Supporting and championing automated testing, continuous integration/delivery tooling & frameworks
Twilio is a cloud communication company that enables users to use standard web languages to build voice, VoIP, and SMS apps via a web API.
Raised $614,415,525.00 from TCV.
Director of Engineering
2014 - 2016
Headed up Test/Tools Engineering, Technical Program/Release Management & Customer Support. Helped transform a rapidly growing startup into an organized operation capable of aligning business strategy with engineering execution at scale. Involved in: - Transitioning the test org from being manual/black-box to being automated - Building automation frameworks for mobile clients (iOS, Android, Windows Phone), platform and web - Building reliable and innovative tools to measure and test our location stack/accuracy - Transitioning organization from ad-hoc releases to a monthly release cadence for clients. - Developing organizational strategy to maximize engineering efficiency - Bootstrapping the Program Management organization to facilitate coordination across multiple concurrent projects/external partners in order to minimize uncertainty and confusion - Developing strategies for cross-team and cross-organizational communication to ensure smooth releases - Architecting & implementing Continuous Integration/Delivery and automated deployment pipeline - Assisted our platform team in reducing our costs, API footprint and shifting to a service-based architecture - Took over Customer Support and working on providing the best experience for our users as well as an early and valuable signal to our design and product specifications Part location, part communication, Life360 keeps millions of families connected. With over 50 million families, Life360 is the largest family network on Mobile. Life360 is backed by DCM, Bessemer Venture Partners, Fontinalis Capital, 500 startups, Samsung, Kapor Capital, and Seraph Group.
Life360 creates a mobile app for families that helps families feel closer together.
Raised $140,236,268.00 from Vanessa Bryant, Michael Phelps, Bryant Stibel Investments, Jada Crawley, Chip Carter Gaines, Tony Hawk, Chris Paul, Nicole Johnson, Stibel & Co. and Billy Perry.
Engineering Manager
2011 - 2014
I built the Tools Partners team from the ground up with the charter of building relationships with every other engineering team, partnering with them to identify their challenges and bootstrapping development of tools and frameworks that solved their problems. As a logical extension to this, my team was also responsible for driving the standardization & adoption of new and existing tooling across the company. Prior to this, I architected and led the development of mobile testing tools and frameworks for multiple mobile applications across iOS, Android, Mobile Web and backend services. I was also responsible for the development of the tooling and frameworks needed for Continuous Delivery of the native applications and backend services. I led a team of 12 engineers (FTE and Consultants) focused on automated testing for the mobile products at LinkedIn.
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Software Development Engineer in Test Lead
2008 - 2011
Software Development Engineer in Test Lead -- Mediaroom - Managed a test team of 8 in the US, UK, Dublin and China and delivered a new satellite hybrid IPTV solution - Responsible for project management of the test team – including scoping, planning, tracking and risk assessment/mitigation - Interact with internal/external partners and customers for product definition and delivery Products Shipped: -- Mediaroom for Satellite v1.0 – Deployed by Deutsche Telekom (as Entertain Sat) Software Development Engineer in Test II -- CAP PlayReady - Tech Lead for integration of the PlayReady porting kit with Windows Phone 7. - Led a team of 3 contractors during the PlayReady-Windows Phone 7 project. - Improved PlayReady performance in Windows Phone 7 by ~25%. - Took initiative to investigate agility, morale & technical concerns in my organization and proposed a plan resulting in improvements/action items for my organization’s management. Received commendation for this effort. - Designed and implemented test suites/frameworks for multiple features in Windows, Zune, Xbox and Silverlight. www.microsoft.com
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead)
2004 - 2008
Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead) - Led feature design/development/maintenance for Multimedia playback engine (Audio/Video playback features) on multiple platforms. - Designed & developed software and security scheme for the iTunes Music Player on Motorola Handsets and liaised with various development, marketing and product teams for the iTunes project Senior Software Engineer - Developed multimedia engine features using different codecs such as MP3, 3GP/MPEG-4, WMA/WMV, Real etc. - Developer in the phone call engine team working on audio optimizations for in-call quality.
Motorola exists to invent, build and deliver the best mobile devices on the planet, improving the lives of millions of people.
Software Intern
2003 - 2004
Maintenance of various software components and applications produced for medical imaging hardware
Software Intern
2003 - 2003
Transitioned reports from Red Brick to Oracle databases using Visual Basic, Oracle & SQL Server