About

Pooja Vernekar is a proficient Engineering Manager with over 15 years of experience in development and leading teams in distributed systems, cloud software, web services, android SDK, embedded/custom solutions, and flagship products. She has a proven track record in project and program management, identifying innovative business use cases, building high-performance teams, influencing product roadmap, spearheading world-class engineers, delivering real-time products that delight customers, and delivering software that directly influences market opportunities. Pooja has hands-on experience in developing and designing large-scale projects, architecting, developing, and launching software products and/or services. She exhibits strong leadership and communication skills to collaborate with product, engineering, and management across different geographic locations. She has experience with distributed systems design, developing cloud solutions, custom app development, embedded platform and solutions, web services, and android SDK development. She drives technical projects and provides leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment. Pooja is responsible for defining program roadmap, launch strategy, and driving thoughtful leadership to build, develop, and deliver the organization's long-term objectives on the platform, products, and software development. She has experience hiring strong engineering talent and growing and developing existing talent on the team. She manages a team of software engineers and technical leads, including task planning, code reviews, and software launch and release processes. Pooja has project management experience with agile development methodology and a proven ability to drive amazing customer experiences and results through team development. Her technical skill set includes Java/J2EE, AWS, Docker, Kafka, Web Services(ReST, SOAP), Android app, SDK, API development, Microservices, SOA, System design, Servlets, JSP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Big data, Web Security, Database, Scripting, and others. Her leadership skill set includes Project Management, Program Management, People leadership, Innovation, Deliver results, and Bias for action. Currently, Pooja is an Engineering Manager at Amazon, part of Consumer Payments org, leading one of the Amazon Payment Products team for the European market. She is working on developing payment products and solutions that serve customers globally, built using cutting-edge technology to develop platform cum products in payment space. Pooja has previously worked as an Engineering Manager / Technical Program Manager at Hewlett Packard and as an Engineering Manager at Samsung. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics & Communications from K L Es College of Engg. &