Aashay Desai

Experience

Spearheaded 3rd-party engagement strategy for the launch of Presence Platform, a machine perception and AI platform that enables Unity and Unreal Engine developers to create more realistic Mixed Reality, interaction, and voice experiences for AR, VR, and MR. Successfully onboarded over 20 game studios and kickstarted the developer ecosystem flywheel. Created and communicated platform vision and strategy to ensure alignment and success
Partnered with Developer Relations and DevRel Engineering to foster developer success on the Presence Platform through RFP initiatives and support efforts
Worked closely with the PMM team to shape the go-to-market strategy and vision for the product through brainstorming, planning, and execution. Distilled complex topics such as OpenXR and synthesized product and API feedback for vertical product teams

Led 10-person team of engineers, designers, and product marketing managers to ensure developer success on Meta's Commerce API across multiple commerce partners including Shopify, BigCommerce, and ChanelAdvisor
Owned backend Commerce APIs as well as developer tooling such as developer dashboards and the canonical reference implementation
Designed product roadmap based on developer pain points and much-needed API performance improvements

Technical partner to the largest e-commerce companies in the world, including Shopify, BigCommerce, and WooCommerce. Led platform integrations resulting in multi-billion dollar revenue
Collaborated with internal product and engineering teams to build innovative products including Instagram Shopping's onsite checkout system
Built zero-to-one partner integrations for Marketplace Autos from the ground up, including integrations with Cars.com, Kelley Blue Book, Edmunds, and Autotrader

Technical liaison and thought partner to developer teams at the largest names in EdTech, such as Scholastic, Instructure, Amazon, and NWEA. Facilitated integrations on the Clever REST API + OAuth2-based platform and delivered amazing experiences to the K-12 classroom
Collaborated with Account Management to lead technical onboarding, integration planning and review, and production support. Developed processes around integration quality, writing API documentation, maintenance of community-supported libraries, and technical support via ZenDesk

Designed cloud-based infrastructure on Amazon Web Services such as EC2, S3, and CloudFormation in a DevOps role. Integrated logging infrastructure for higher visibility across services

Built, maintained, and ensured reliability for services powering the cloud-based publishing environment, online reading experience, and internal tools
Developed internal tools such as deployment dashboards, monitoring, and metrics-gathering systems to increase engineering productivity and platform visibility. Simplified automation using tools such as Jenkins CI and Puppet

Scrum Master and Senior Quality Engineer on Force.com API and Salesforce Knowledge. Maintained test automation suites and QA processes on features such as REST API, Apex, Streaming API (CometD), and SOAP APIs

Technical lead responsible for client consultation, project management, software design, QA, and support using customized Microsoft Dynamics AX Multi-Channel Retail ERP vertical

Bachelor of Science - General Engineering
Concentration: Engineering Administration, Technology Commercialization