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Ayyappan Sampath

Bangkok,10

Summary

  • Visionary engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building and scaling high-performance teams and platforms.
  • Demonstrated success as site leader by building a new development center from the ground up, leading, and scaling cross-functional teams of 100+ engineers to deliver high-impact business outcomes.
  • Expert in organizational transformation, technical strategy, and operational excellence.
  • Expert in building high-frequency, low-latency, business-critical systems comprising thousands of instances, handling hundreds of millions of requests daily.
  • Recognized for strong leadership, technical depth, results-oriented, and a relentless focus on continuous improvement.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Engineering

Agoda
Bangkok
03.2022 - Current
  • Leading Agoda’s hotel search funnel organization, managing 20 teams and over 150 engineers across Bangkok and Gurugram, delivering high-scale, cross-functional projects.
  • Built a strong management layer by hiring 10+ high-performing managers and grooming 3 into senior engineering leaders, enabling a self-sustaining organization.
  • Spearheaded cross-platform migration of accommodation pages (native to web view), targeting a 50% reduction in developer effort to make new changes.
  • Unified frontend architecture across desktop, mobile web, and app, improving developer velocity, code quality, and reducing maintenance overhead.
  • Transformed the company-wide design review process to an RFC-style process, raising developer NPS from -46 to +20, and establishing a collaborative engineering knowledge base.

Senior Engineering Manager

Agoda
Gurugram
03.2021 - 02.2022
  • Led the efforts to set up new development center in India.
  • Relocated to Gurugram for 2 years to lead from front to hire and build highly talented and self organising teams.
  • Hired a team locally in India and led the team to build configurable loyalty platform for our white label product which is core to our B2B business.
  • This reduced loyalty systems integration during partner onboarding from 2 months to 3 weeks.
  • Created and executed roadmap for migrating all accommodation systems to Kubernetes and using Istio as service mesh.

Engineering Manager

Agoda
Bangkok
10.2018 - 02.2022
  • Designed technical solution for resilient API through prioritized load shedding and feature degradation to serve 2X customers with same capacity and inspired engineers to write blog post about it.
  • Designed generic content change discovery platform to reduce data freshness from 6 hrs to 5 minutes.
  • Currently used by 30+ internal applications.
  • Designed next generation architecture for Search API using GraphQL.
  • Using schema propagation of upstream services reduced Time To Market by 30%.

Senior / Lead engineer

Agoda
Bangkok
12.2016 - 10.2018
  • Involved a lot in solution designing and PR reviews.
  • Developed a framework to build new filters 3x faster.
  • Built and improved most of the CI/CD process for the system and improved developer velocity by 30%.
  • Improved monitoring and documentation of Hotels Search API.
  • Reduced onboarding time for new engineers from 6 weeks to 2 weeks through proper documentation.
  • Improved team culture in writing proper tests and automation.
  • Increased coverage from 20 to 80%.
  • DRY: Strong advocate of building common libraries in platform teams(10+ common libraries).

Software Engineer Analyst

Accenture UK
Newcastle
02.2014 - 11.2016
  • Helped HMRC to build 2 products.
  • Trusted helpers - allow one user to securely login as another user by nominating helper.
  • Tax credits - help UK citizens to claim their tax credits online faster and easier.
  • Built backend RESTful web services and webpages.
  • I was lead resource in the team with better product knowledge, Scala skills and helped team to deliver faster.
  • Technology used: Scala, Play framework, ScalaTest, Splunk, MongoDB, Gatling and JIRA.

Intern - Industrial Project

Microsoft Research Cambridge
London
06.2013 - 09.2013
  • Built a IoT cloud platform that enables devices to send data easily to an API and support building analytics on IoT data.
  • Built 3 IoT prototypes using .NET Gadgeteer to demonstrate the usage of our cloud platform.
  • I was the project leader and collaborated with Microsoft researchers to gather requirements and procure gadgeteer components.
  • Technology used: C#, ASP.NET, WCF, LINQ, Azure worker role, Azure service bus and TFS.

Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies
Chennai
06.2011 - 07.2012

Education

Master of Science - Software Systems Engineering

University College London
London
09.2013

B.E. - Computer Science and Engineering

Anna University
Chennai
04.2011

Skills

  • Engineering Leadership and Organization Building
  • Cross-functional team management (100 engineers)
  • Technical Strategy and System Architecture
  • Critical thinking
  • Analytical Decision-Making
  • Mentoring
  • Project Management
  • GraphQL
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Spark, JVM, Scala
  • Distributed systems
  • ElasticSearch, Couchbase, Cassandra, SQL
  • Performance tuning, SRE, observability
  • Mutation test
  • Server capacity planning

Timeline

Director of Engineering

Agoda
03.2022 - Current

Senior Engineering Manager

Agoda
03.2021 - 02.2022

Engineering Manager

Agoda
10.2018 - 02.2022

Senior / Lead engineer

Agoda
12.2016 - 10.2018

Software Engineer Analyst

Accenture UK
02.2014 - 11.2016

Intern - Industrial Project

Microsoft Research Cambridge
06.2013 - 09.2013

Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies
06.2011 - 07.2012

Master of Science - Software Systems Engineering

University College London

B.E. - Computer Science and Engineering

Anna University

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