Deep Kapadia
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Deep Kapadia is from Greater New York City Area. Deep works in the following industries: "Telecommunications", "Internet", "Newspapers", "Higher Education", "Online Media", and "Information Technology & Services". Deep is currently Vice President Of Engineering at The New York Times, located in Greater New York City Area. In Deep's previous role as a Executive Director, Engineering at The New York Times, Deep worked in Greater New York City Area until Oct 2019. Prior to joining The New York Times, Deep was a Senior Director of Technology at The New York Times and held the position of Senior Director of Technology at Greater New York City Area. Prior to that, Deep was a Director of Technology at The New York Times, based in Greater New York City Area from Apr 2015 to Apr 2016. Deep started working as Sr. Software Engineer/Technical Program Manager, R&D Labs at The New York Times in Nov 2011. From Jul 2011 to Nov 2011, Deep was Technology Consultant at The Atavist (Acquired by Automattic). Prior to that, Deep was a Sr. Engineer at Image Space Media, Inc. (acquired by Vibrant Media), based in Greater New York City Area from Jan 2009 to Jun 2011. Deep started working as Consultant/Technical Architect at Accenture in Dec 2005.
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I manage all of Cloud Infrastructure tooling and automation as well as test automation at The New York Times. My teams are responsible for building DevOps and test automation tooling for 30+ product engineering teams as well as manage the edge cache architecture for serving all of the content for The New York Times. I also run the SRE program at The New York Times. My teams act in a consulting role to help product engineering teams build reliability and resiliency into their applications and continue to level up in maturity when it comes to being more resilient to failures. In addition to the talks in my profile, the links below point to some of the work my teams have done under my leadership.
Responsible for introducing and building the Delivery Engineering practice responsible for building developer tooling at The New York Times and also the Site Reliability Engineering practice.
Oversaw and managed two teams consisting of some of the most senior technologists at The New York Times. Responsible for all the content API's for the core mobile apps and pushed the vision for it to be the only set of content API's that are consumed by all platforms before handing things over to my successor. Also responsible for the all push notifications to the website; including all the breaking news which needed to be sent to millions of devices in a short period of time. Both these systems were globally distributed across multiple data centers.
Worked on various projects listed on http://nytlabs.com Worked on automating deployments for various lab installations and projects as well as led development of various API's, including some real-time analytics API's that eventually powered parts of nytimes.com. Also managed a small team of engineers while working on a few projects.
I took on a temporary consulting role to have more flexibility for a short period of time. I worked on the first iteration of The Atavist stack. A LAMP based stack but built lots of tools and frameworks to publish The Atavist stories to various publishing platforms (Web, mobile, ePub, mobi, and a handful of others). Also worked on the Atavist publishing platform that allowed other publishers/clients to use the it for their story telling.
* Member of a four person engineering team, reporting to the CTO. * Worked on the core technology and all the supporting applications that make up ISM's product offering. The ISM ad server serves approximately 10 million ad impressions on a daily basis using a LAMP stack running on the AWS EC2. * Responsible for setting up a Hadoop Cluster on AWS EC2 across multiple environments and transitioned knowledge across the team. * Singly responsible for introducing Scrum as an everyday methodology across multiple teams company-wide. * Developed and maintained back-end Web Services API's for all of ISM's products * Responsible for developing and maintaining consumers for external web services being consumed by ISM
Defined core technical architecture, mentored and managed development teams doing custom development across multiple projects at various Accenture clients. Most of the development work Java/JEE/J2EE based custom development. Often interacted with senior client leadership. Notable clients worked with included Shell Trading, Major League Baseball and State Government of New Jersey. Performed leadership roles at all the above projects. * At MLB, lead a team of 8 people spread across 3 geographic locations. * At the State Govt. of NJ managed and mentored multiple small teams comprising of 3 to 4 people over the course of the project. * At Shell trading designed core components of the back end system spanning web services in Java and a work-flow system using .Net. Evangalized Agile development methodologies such as Scrum across Accenture. Participated in pre-sales presentations/conversations with potential clients.
Responsible for heavy Java MVC and Web Services development on multiple projects. Did a lot of framework development and build management as well. Promoted to Development Lead responsible for managing an offshore team of 12 people on 3 projects. Duties included, hands on coding, work planning, resource management, mentoring junior team members and code quality assurance. Also acted as the liaison between the onshore and the offshore teams.
Built re-usable components such as a centralized logging service, a security service and an Enterprise wide naming service using a Java/J2EE stack, that was utilized by projects all across the organization.
I built and managed Websites that were being managed as a part of a grant given to the Kansas State University at the time. The most promininent one being https://nih.gov
I did a lot Java and Web development