About

Vinay S is an experienced Engineering Manager at Y Media Labs with a total of 12.5 years of work experience, including 4 years of people management experience. He has a track record of building effective B2C and B2B applications, effectively supervising the entire application development cycle, and delivering complex applications from concept to fully deployable status. Vinay has demonstrated effective leadership and project management abilities in a fast-paced work environment. At Y Media Labs, Vinay currently manages a team of around 20+ engineers, providing 360-degree feedback, conducting mentoring and coaching to team members who need support. He conducts quarterly review check-ins and appraisals of every team member. Vinay has successfully managed and delivered 3 client projects with tech stacks like React, Vue, Contentful CMS, and third-party integrations like Okta, Hubspot, Plaid, etc. He played a critical role starting from project definition phase till the delivery of the project, taking part in project estimations, capacity planning, and timeline mapping. Vinay has daily interactions with product/project managers, engineering directors, leads, similar counterparts in the US scrum team, and key members from the client team. He upskills team members from time to time to match the tech requirements for the client projects. Vinay has previously worked as an Engineering Manager at WeInvest, where he played a key role in architecting a unique web application where each and every UI component in the website is made configurable as per the requirement of any client. He also built an application with a multi-tenancy approach and was responsible for making the API Gateway (NodeJs and GraphQL) extremely secure and safe. Earlier, he worked as a Consultant - Software Development Manager at Zoomers Solutions Pvt Ltd, where he built a B2C online store for eyewear products and helped in almost 30% increase in monthly traffic after implementing new design and optimization of the website in terms of page speed, user experience, defect fix, and standard SEO practices. Vinay holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Bangalore. His technical skills include Senior Software Engineer, Frontend, Software Engineer, UI, Web, NodeJS, Javascript, ReactJS, Redux, and VueJS.