Rachana Pandya Bedekar

|https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachanapandya|https://github.com/rachanarp|rachna.pandya@gmail.com|

Software Development Manager with 2+ years experience managing teams, launching high quality products and 12+ years of hands-on software development with expertise in mobile, desktop & web apps.

Work Experience

Sr. Software Development Manager, Rdio Inc, San Francisco, CA                (Mar’15 - Present)

- Lead & manage a team of 8 Front-end Software Engineers responsible for rdio.com & desktop apps.

- Handle recruitment, training and performance management of team members.

- Partner with product management to set the direction, allocate resources for predictable feature delivery.

- Currently spend 50% time developing front end and desktop application using Javascript, CSS, Electron.

Software Development Manager & Team Lead, Line 6 Inc, Calabasas, CA              (Oct’11– Mar’15)

- Led mobile software development and launched AMPLIFi Remote in App Store and Google Play Store.

- Managed a team of 6 local software engineers and 6 offshore engineers.

- Created new revenue stream - Mobile POD  in-app purchase for users of 3rd party guitar interfaces.

- Implemented Agile Scrum across Software projects and increased velocity & predictability.

- Standardized tools for Version Control, Scrum and reporting across Software & Firmware teams.

- Promoted to Software Development Manager in Jan’14 after acquisition by Yamaha Corp.

- Promoted from Sr. Software Engineer to Software Team Lead in Oct’13.

- Continued to spend 50% time developing cross-platform mobile & desktop applications for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows using C++, Objective-C, Java, SQLite, NSIS, cURL, Qt and web services.

Software Engineer, Smith Micro Software, Aliso Viejo, CA.                          (Jan’ 09 – Oct’11)

- Developed Netwise Director for Carriers that seamlessly manages 3G/4G/WiFi connections on Android.

- Developed 3G/4G/WiFi Connection Managers for laptops running Windows using C++ & C#.

Sr. Software Developer, Slacker Inc.  San Diego, CA.                                   (Oct’ 06 – Jan’ 09)

- Developed ”Slacker Software Player” Windows desktop multimedia software using C++, SQLite & Lua.

- Promoted to Sr. Software Developer in Jan 2008.

- Developed firmware for the Slacker Portable device on embedded linux using C, cURL and CUnit.

Software Developer, Yardi Systems Inc.  Santa Barbara, CA.                          (July’ 05 – Oct’ 06)

- Developed and refactored Yardi Voyager (n-tier web based Property Management Software) using ASP.NET, VB.NET, NHibernate, SQL Server, Oracle database and Web Services using SOAP and XML.

Research Assistant, Institute for Creative Technologies, CA.   (Sep’ 04 –Dec’ 04 & Mar’ 04 –May’ 04)

- Designed and developed Natural Language parser using C and Flex to recognize phrases and tag them for research papers published in Commonsense Psychology.

- Designed and developed a website called ‘PsychoPhrase’ using PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL to collect training set, aggregate user ratings and train machine learning algorithms (SVM and Naïve Bayes).

Software Engineering Intern, Intel Corp, Chandler, AZ.            (May ’04 – Aug’ 04 & Jan’ 05 – May’ 05)

- Designed and developed a flexible and extensible Simulator & Configurator for Tracking of a chip using C#.  Received a ‘Goodie Drawer Award’ for discipline and result orientation.

Education

M.B.A, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.                                              (May’ 10 –  May‘ 13)

M.S Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.                 (Aug’ 03 – May‘ 05)

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Gujarat University, India.            (Jun’ 99 –  Jun’ 03)