Sanat Ahuja

About

Senior engineering leader from Goodyear’s AndGo startup-like division who scaled the org from 12 to 30+ across pod-based teams and introduced an Architect Guild/ARD governance model. Led a 4-month Europe launch requiring AWS regional infrastructure, GDPR compliance, i18n/l10n, and new EMEA reporting pipelines, and has hands-on depth in API performance, incident response, and GraphQL/Hasura adoption to boost product velocity.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Built and executed business-aligned technology roadmaps with clear goals, KPIs, owners, and phased delivery
• Led a fixed-timeline (4-month) Europe app launch including 3 new features, i18n/l10n, GDPR compliance, and an EMEA reporting pipeline
• Scaled engineering org from 12 people / 2 teams to 30+ across 6 pods (feature pods, Data/ML, CS support, platform/infra) with EM/PM per pod
• Established cross-team architecture governance via an Architect Guild and ARD approvals focused on reliability, scale, security, and SLAs
• Implemented process rigor: code owners, CI/CD with biweekly releases, and dedicated 20% sprint capacity for tech debt
• Deep i18n/l10n execution: resource-file architecture, locale-aware formatting, localization integrated into build/PR workflow, and robust QA/monitoring
• Improved multilingual search relevance using OpenSearch language-specific analyzers
• Effective high-stakes incident leadership: delegated incident command, contributed technically to API optimization, and managed stakeholder risk communication ahead of board meeting/enterprise demo
• Pragmatic architecture decisions to increase velocity (Hasura/GraphQL adoption with hybrid GraphQL+REST approach)