Dave Singh

Experience

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  US Army

  Apr 1999 - Apr 2007

  Staff Sergeant (E6)

  Led a squad of highly trained soldiers who met and surpassed US Army standards by training, mentoring, and coaching soldiers to accomplish missions.* Exceed expectations in multiple duties when stationed in diverse environments, particularly during Operation Iraqi Freedom.* Performed admirably in a fast-paced setting while stationed in Iraq and conducted multiple security-related duties.

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  RTTS

  Jun 2006 - Aug 2010

  Senior Quality Assurance Performance Engineer

  Served as a Senior Performance Engineer by operating multiple systems to examine and assist in identifying the dependability and bottlenecks of the various systems.* Ensured performance criteria included a set average or maximum reaction time, saturating system resources such as CPU or memory usage, or maintaining a minimum response time.* Oversaw saturation of system resources such as CPU utilization or memory use or accomplishing a predetermined transaction volume within a specified time interval.* Executed duties for various companies, including Bank of America, Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG), Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Fixed Income Prime Brokerage (FIPB - Merrill Lynch), and ML Prime Application - Merrill Lynch. Show less

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  Gilt.com

  Sept 2010 - Dec 2018

  Led and supervised diverse teams with expertise in multiple programming languages, playing a pivotal role in expanding these teams from a startup environment to a fully integrated part of the HBC following acquisition.* Demonstrated exceptional growth and leadership within HBC, progressing from an automation engineer to a software engineer II, and ultimately being promoted to the role of production support manager and engineering team leader.* Effectively managed and led a diverse team of 35 professionals including multiple leads and ensured the smooth operation of QA, production support, and development functions.* Orchestrated the migration of critical applications to AWS streamlining operations and enhancing efficiency through the seamless integration of CloudFormation and CodeDeploy for continuous improvement in operating practices. * Spearheaded the implementation and expansion of comprehensive front-end and back-end test cases harnessing the power of ScalaTest and Selenium to ensure the highest standards of software quality. Show less

  • Production Support Manager/Software Engineer II/QA Lead Automation

    May 2016 - Dec 2018

  • Manager QA Automation and Application Support

    Sept 2010 - May 2016
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  Hudson's Bay Company

  Dec 2018 - Nov 2020

  Coordinated various teams, including content management, email, and business operation departments(backoffice), while mentoring junior engineers and directed training to eliminate single points of failure.* Partnered with product managers to ensure the product was delivered on schedule and under budget, increasing test coverage and accelerated deployment processes.* Enabled AWS CloudWatch alerts and analytics on the new system account email service and utilized AWS RDS instances to support the architecture effectively.* Delivered REST APIs to enable other departments to utilize company tools while promoting deep dives, proofs of concept, and tool selections based on new technologies.* Directed and coached engineers to develop high-quality software for internal users and over 30 million customers.* Drove initiative to migrate the company's content management stack for all HBC banners (Saks, Saks Off Fifth, Lord & Taylor, The Bay) to AWS Elastic Compute Service (ECS). Show less Worked on a few different teams including our email, content management, and business operations teams. We utilized Amazon Web services (AWS), node.js, react.js, Scala, lambda’s, to render and send emails to our customers.* Built our content management system(CMS) tooling from the ground up.* Provided and maintained REST APIs so other teams could use our tools. Wrote API definitions (models and resources) using API Builder for use by clients.* Fostered an environment that provided high-level architecture discussions that promoted deep dives and POC of new technology, and tool selections.* Encouraged and continued good engineering practices that included, code reviews and peer programming.* Used Amazon SQS, RDS instances, and Lambdas for inter-component communications to better support the architecture.* Coordinated and integrated with Salesforce API’s to get relevant product details to include in our transactional emails. Show less

  • Team Lead/Software Engineer III

    Jul 2019 - Nov 2020

  • Software Engineer III

    Dec 2018 - Jul 2019
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  Chopra Global

  Nov 2020 - Jan 2023

  Director of Engineering at Chopra Global

  Served as the lead chief architect directing all software development efforts and driving transformative changes in web customer-facing experiences through innovative architecture and solution designs.* Led the backend mobile and full-stack web teams, fostering innovation and expanding engineering capabilities to engineer high-quality, stylish designs and innovative solutions for mobile and web users’ experiences and interfaces.* Transformed CI/CD pipelines and streamlined deployment processes across AWS environments while integrating and enhancing the Java-based Brightspot CMS tool to support web, iOS, and Android content flawlessly.* Designed components and architectural solutions grounded in sound technology principles which resulted in an IOS application with a remarkable crash-free user session rate of 99.75%.* Effectively managed the department's budget allocation by overseeing recruitment, employee retention, equipment procurement, team-building events, education and training, and third-party software investments. Show less

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  Perry Health

  Jan 2023 - Jan 2023

  Director of Engineering

  Played a key role in collaborating with the executive team to define a strategic roadmap that propelled our software engineering initiatives in line with our long-term vision which fostered growth and innovation.* Orchestrated and guided the engineering department, overseeing various teams which include data science, and platform teams, which resulted in improved efficiency, and encouraged cross-functional collaboration.* Facilitated seamless communication between the product and engineering teams by translating necessary product requirements into precise technical specifications, ensuring efficient and accurate product development.* Managed project resources, timelines, and risks, resulting in the on-time and on-budget delivery of engineering projects, minimizing setbacks and maximizing efficiency.* Successfully introduced and integrated modern engineering best practices in system design, and troubleshooting which elevated the quality and efficiency of our engineering processes and fostered a culture of continuous improvement. Show less

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  New York State Department of Labor

  Jan 2024 - now

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