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In our sixth episode of  Breaking 404, we caught up with Muazma Zahid, a Senior Engineering Manager at Microsoft. She works on the Azure Global team and talks about building resilient, highly available petabyte scale data pipelines.  In this discussion, she also talks about how managers can improve their tech hiring screening process. 

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404, we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. We also talked about the best recruiting practices that Engineering Leaders should follow in order to hire the best tech talent without any biases.About Monica BajajMonica Bajaj is an engineering leader with a wide variety of experience around building high performing globally distributed Engineering teams aligning with product delivery and customer satisfaction. Her prime focus has always been around developer productivity and enriched experience for customers. Monica is currently Senior Director of Engineering at Workday where she is responsible to build a Community 2.0 platform along with other partner teams. Prior to Workday, she worked at various Tech giants such as Cisco, NetApp, and Ultimate Software. She also serves as a Board member at WomenInLocalization, a global organization focused on Women mentorship and localization activities. She is a featured mentor on Plato and Everwise mentorship platforms.Monica holds a CS undergrad from Indore and grad from IIT Mumbai in India.Finding outdoor activities keeps her refreshed. When she is not working, she is either gardening, hiking, or mentoring. She can be reached on:Twitter: @mbajaj9LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mobajaj/

 In our fourth episode of Breaking 404, we caught up with Sergey Fedorov, Director of Engineering, Netflix to understand how one of the world's biggest and most famous Over-The-Top (OTT) media service provider, Netflix, handles its content delivery and network acceleration to provide uninterrupted services to its users globally. About Sergey FedorovSergey Fedorov is a hands-on engineering leader at Netflix. After working on computer graphics at Intel, and developer tools at Microsoft, he was an early engineer in the Open Connect — team that runs Netflix's content delivery infrastructure delivering 13% of the world Internet traffic. Sergey spent years building monitoring and data analysis systems for video streaming and now focuses on improving interactive client-server communications to achieve better performance, reliability, and control over Netflix network traffic. He is also the author and maintainer of FAST.com — one of the most popular Internet speed tests. Sergey is a strong advocate of an observable approach to engineering and making data-driven decisions to improve and evolve end-to-end system architectures. Sergey holds a BS and MS degrees from the Nizhny Novgorod State University in Russia.Finding actionable signals in loosely controlled environments is what keeps Sergey awake, much better than caffeine. This might also explain why outside of work he can be seen playing ice hockey, brewing beer, or exploring exotic travel destinations (which are lately much closer to his home in Los Gatos, California, but nevertheless just as adventurous).Links:Twitter: @sfedovWebsite: sfedov.com

In our third episode of Breaking 404, we caught up with Srivatsan Ramanujam, Director of Software Engineering: Machine Learning, Salesforce to discuss everything about Machine Learning and the best practices for Machine Learning Engineers.About Srivatsan RamanujamSrivatsan Ramanujam is a Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce where he currently leads engineering for machine learning products in Salesforce Einstein. Previously at Salesforce, Srivatsan led the Customer Intelligence data science team, solving problems in customer growth, retention, and platform adoption. Prior to Salesforce he led data science projects for customers in multiple industry verticals at Pivotal (VMWare) and was a lead engineer for NLP products at Sony Mobile and ML products at Sony PlayStation. Srivatsan earned a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.Follow SrivatsanWebsite: https://vatsan.github.io/Twitter: @being_bayesian

In our second episode of Breaking 404, we caught up with Johan Andersen, Engineering Director, Citadel ( Former Google SRE Manager) to understand the best practices of managing distributed systems as well as distributed systems engineers. About Johan Andersen:Johan Andersen is an engineering leader with a broad experience creating and developing teams to focus on improving the reliability and scalability of large distributed systems. Johan is currently an Engineering Director at Citadel, where he manages several teams with responsibility for the middle and back-office operations for the firm. Before that, he was a senior SRE manager at Google, where he worked on a wide variety of infrastructure and application teams from Storage to Docs to Search Indexing. Prior to Google, Johan led the Security Architecture team at Morgan Stanley. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Columbia University.

In our first episode of Breaking 404, we caught up with Ajay Sampat, Sr. Engineering Manager, Lyft to understand the challenges that engineering teams across domains face while tackling large user traffic. Through this episode, Ajay shares his personal experiences and hardships that developers/engineers face in their day-to-day tasks. About Ajay Sampat:Ajay Sampat is a seasoned growth engineering professional with expertise in scaling companies with state of the art growth technology stacks. Ajay currently heads the Marketing Automation team at Lyft. Prior to Lyft, he started the SF office for Canadian startup TextNow and led its Business Intelligence & Growth teams, making it a top 30 Android app and top 100 iOS App, tripling their DAU and revenue. Before TextNow, he spent three years at KIXEYE building out the Growth engineering organization managing multiple successful desktop and mobile game launches. Ajay started his career at Hitachi working on block storage and supercomputers. Ajay has a BS in Computer Science from The Ohio State University and an MS in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.Links:Twitter : @asampat Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajaysampat/Website: www.ajay.digital