Dheeraj
OPEN TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER ROLES · 2026

Engineering manager.
Calmer leader.

I’m Dheeraj. Fifteen years architecting and shipping production web platforms to 10M+ users. Currently leading the React micro-frontend platform team at Equifax. Looking for the next room to lead.

Engineering Management·Front End Architecture·Technology Management·Technology Leadership
Dheeraj Sampath portrait
Austin, TX30.27°N · 97.74°W
15yrs
Shipping production
10M+
Users reached
40+
Engineers mentored
52%
LCP improvement, Equifax
Shipped to consumers at
SELECTED WORK

Fifteen years.
Seven rooms.

From a Microsoft consultancy in Hyderabad to platform tech-lead at Equifax in Austin. The tools change. The job, helping good engineers ship the right thing on time, doesn’t.

WHAT I DO

The job, broken into the three
parts that matter.

01 · LEADING
  • Engineering management: hiring, performance, growth
  • Tech-lead scope across 3 product teams
  • Mentorship: 40+ engineers, staff + senior
  • RFC + architecture-review owner
  • Agile delivery: Scrum, Kanban, sprint planning, retros
  • Cross-geo, multi-timezone delivery
02 · BUILDING
  • React 18, Next.js 14 (RSC, Server Actions)
  • Angular 20 (signals, standalone components)
  • TypeScript, Module Federation, micro-frontends
  • Go, Node.js, GraphQL, BFF + edge
  • AWS (Lambda, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB), GCP, Cloudflare
  • Anthropic Claude, MCP, RAG, Vercel AI SDK
03 · THINKING
  • Design systems, multi-brand tokens
  • Performance: Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse
  • Accessibility: WCAG 2.1 / 2.2 AA
  • SOC 2, GLBA, CCPA in regulated UI
  • Trunk-based delivery, feature flags, canary
  • Observability: OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Sentry
EDUCATION + CERTIFICATIONS

The paper that
backs the work.

Two degrees, one executive program, three certifications. The Stanford program (2024) is what re-pointed my next decade toward AI-augmented engineering and management.

DEGREE
Master of Business Administration
Digital Entrepreneurship
Strayer University · Herndon, VA
DEGREE
Bachelor of Technology
Computer Science
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology · India
EXECUTIVE
AI-Driven Leadership
Executive program
Stanford University
CERTIFICATION
Certified Scrum Master
CSM
Scrum Alliance
CERTIFICATION
Certified Usability Analyst
CUA
Human Factors International
CERTIFICATION
Microsoft Specialist
Programming HTML5 + JS + CSS3 (70-480)
Microsoft
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