# Aashay Desai

<span class="contact email"><a href="mailto:aashayd@gmail.com">Aashay<strong>D</strong>@gmail.com</a></span>  
<span class="contact github">[GitHub: @aashay](http://github.com/aashay)</span>  
<span class="contact web">[Web: http://aashay.com](http://aashay.com)</span>  

## Experience 
### Meta (Facebook) - Menlo Park, CA: May 2016 - Present

#### Product Manager, XR Tech (June 2021 - Present)
* Spearheaded 3rd-party engagement strategy for the launch of Presence Platform, a machine perception and AI platform that enables developers to create more realistic mixed reality, interaction, and voice experiences for AR, VR, and MR. Successfully onboarded developers 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.

#### Product Manager, Commerce Platform (May 2020 - June 2021)
* 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

#### Partner Engineer, Commerce (May 2016 - May 2020)
* 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.


### Clever - San Francisco, CA: October 2014 to May 2016 (*Developer Relations Manager/Partner Engineer*)

* Technical liaison and thought partner to developer teams at some of the largest names in EdTech, such as Scholastic, Instructure, Amazon, and NWEA. Facilitated integrations on the Clever REST API + OAuth2-based platform and deliver 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.

### Cotap - San Francisco, CA: March 2014 to August 2014 (*Senior Software Engineer*)

* 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

### Inkling - San Francisco, CA: October 2011 to March 2014 (*Web Operations Engineer*)
* Built and maintained 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
* Participated in on-call rotation to ensure service reliability

### Salesforce.com - San Francisco, CA: October 2008 to October 2011 (*Senior Member, Technical Staff*)

* Quality Engineer on Force.com API, Salesforce Knowledge. Responsible for maintaining test automation suites and QA processes on features such as REST API, Apex, Streaming API (CometD), and SOAP APIs
* Mentored new hires and participate in technical job interviews for new candidates
* Empowered teammates as Scrum Master on Salesforce Knowledge team through the use of in-house agile project management process

### Junction Solutions - Lincolnshire, IL: June 2007 to October 2008 (*Senior Consultant*) 

* Responsible for client consultation, project management, software design, QA, and support using customized Microsoft Dynamics AX Multi-Channel Retail ERP vertical
* Managed requirements gathering during design phase as project technical lead
* Evangelized Test-Driven Development using xUnit-style framework built into MorphX IDE
* Designed and tested Wireless Warehouse inventory management system and developed end-user training

## Education
### University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: May 2007
**Bachelor of Science - General Engineering**
Concentration: Engineering Administration, Technology Commercialization