Wingston Sharon

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

wingston.sharon@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/wingstonsharon

Summary
I trust you would find me to be well-spoken, energetic and confident, the type of person on whom your teams can
rely upon.
I also have a wide breadth of experience of the type that gives you the versatility to place me in a number of
contexts with confidence that the level of excellence you expect will be met.
 
In most situations technical decisions must be made within the context of larger business constraints. My greatest
strength lies in the fact that i am competent with a wide range of technologies and can interact with both clients
and colleagues of both technical and non-technical scenarios with ease.
 
I have built software moving terabytes of movie files from producer houses to the mastering queue and packaging
the finalized product to iTunes, Netflix like platforms in a safe and reliant manner.
I moved on to leading teams that manage data of more than 50k construction projects a week, providing real time
insights to our clients via a proprietary platform, and working with data scientists to enhance the product offerings
that we provide.
Managing software migrations while simultaneously experimenting on the holiday booking behavior of about
a million+ users per day has taught me how cross-functional teams interact and the inherent challenges in
maintaining software that is critical to business continuity while ensuring that they get modernized to stand the test
of time.
 
I have been in the shoes of an improviser, stand up comedian, cat-lover, drone photographer, motorcycle racer
and engineering manager but still an technocrat at heart.

Experience
Engineering Manager
Booking.com
Sep 2021 - Present (5 months +)

Senior Software Developer Team Lead

Booking.com
Jan 2019 - Oct 2021 (2 years 10 months)

Development Team Lead

Booking.com
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018 (7 months)
Started learning management and started taking care of my team here
people and stakeholder management skills
conflict resolution
non micromanagement coaching skills

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were all of some of the skills i learnt here

Software Engineer
Booking.com
May 2017 - Aug 2018 (1 year 4 months)
development in perl, java and some python/spark for machine learning
maintain and developed high scalable systems

Software Engineer
BNC Network
Jul 2015 - May 2017 (1 year 11 months)
helped migrate an existing .net application to python/django
frontend and app integration available via a server/client stack
the company has a large collection of data that we sell to clients to search through and export
challenges were fast development lifecycle and client specific requirements

Software Developer
Premiere Digital Services
Jul 2013 - Jul 2015 (2 years 1 month)
Look responsibility over product development lifecycle
developed application to move and manage 200+GB of assets between providers, workers and
fulfillment destinations
end to end product development in a python stack

Software Engineer
Styloot
Oct 2012 - Jun 2013 (9 months)
Server Side Development in Python/Django.
Front End dev via Backbone.js
Learnt how to deploy and maintain a medium sized application

Chief Technical Officer

Apr 2011 - Sep 2012 (1 year 6 months)
- Technical Training & Consulting for Engineering Professionals
- linux mini2440 training for ARM devices
- built a wifi quadcopter for a client

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology
Jul 2007 - Jun 2011 (4 years)
Real Time classification algorithms of EEG signals to be used in an embedded Brain Computer
Interface device

Planning and Production - Trainee

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 May 2010 - Jul 2010 (3 months)
Interaction with design and quality assurance dept to manufacture products cording to customer
specification and international standards.
 
Exposed to elements of Industrial design/Manufacturing.
 
Wrote a program to optimize bus bar cutting schedule to reduce scrap loss to ~1%.

Education
Vellore Institute of Technology
B.tech, Electrical and Electronics
2007 - 2011

ISG
2005 - 2007

Skills
C++   •   Photoshop   •   Python   •   Matlab   •   Hardware Hacking   •   Android Development   •   Java   •   Django
  •   Linux   •   Linux Kernel

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