Jones Pavan

About

Engineering leader from Blackline who has repeatedly rescued and delivered high-visibility products by resetting roadmaps, tightening execution (better specs/estimation), and accelerating team velocity. Scaled a distributed org from ~20 to ~40 engineers by building a new India team with strong hiring rubrics and governance-as-code/SDLC consistency. Also modernized legacy systems into microservices (Kafka/Kubernetes/Apigee) and drove hackathon-to-production innovation using Google Vertex AI.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Turned around a behind-schedule product by resetting roadmap, clarifying objectives, and improving delivery predictability
• Improved team velocity via better story definition, structured grooming, and three-point estimation with buffers and stretch goals
• Scaled engineering org from ~20 to ~40 engineers including building a new India team and hiring senior leadership
• Built hiring alignment using interview rubrics and career ladder expectations focused on technical and cultural fit
• Established governance/SDLC practices (architecture reviews, peer reviews, tooling) to maintain consistency across distributed teams
• Balanced technical execution with executive communication through recurring board/executive deep dives, risk reporting, and mitigation plans
• Led legacy modernization by moving logic from stored procedures to microservices and introducing modern platform components (Kafka/Kubernetes/Apigee)
• Created innovation pipeline (hackathons, partner tech talks, COEs) that produced POCs promoted into production and scaled to broader customer rollout