About

Syed Daud is a highly experienced Engineering Manager with over 8 years of experience in the field. He is currently working at Lowe's Companies, Inc. as an Engineering Manager, leading the Price Performance Management (PPM) team. Syed has been a part of the PPM team for the last 4 years, where he has been responsible for taking pricing decisions based on over 200+ different factors, both internal and external, for retailers. He has leveraged Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hive, Hadoop, ElasticSearch, etc. on the AWS ecosystem to build the PPM engine. Syed's previous experience includes working as an SDET at Snapdeal and Boomerang Commerce. As an SDET, he was able to bring down the client onboarding process from 10 man-days to 2 man-days in Boomerang. Syed has a strong technical background and is proficient in Hadoop, Spark, MapReduce, Hive, ElasticSearch, AWS, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and more. Syed has worked with Boomerang for a significant part of his career, where he started as a Software Development Engineer - 2 and later moved to the PPM team. Boomerang's PPM solution brings data from disparate sources together, identifies opportunities and problems, and recommends pricing strategies that help merchandisers increase revenue without eroding margin. Syed holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science & Engineering from Integral University and completed his 10+2 from Unity College, where he studied Mathematics and Computer Science. He has relevant experience of 10.78 years and is a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in AWS, Spark, Elastic Search, Spring, SDET, Hadoop, MapReduce, Big Data, Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Apache Hive, and Software Engineering. Overall, Syed is a highly skilled Engineering Manager with extensive experience in building and leading teams, leveraging Big Data technologies, and delivering successful projects.