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Senior Software Engineering Manager in Chicago, IL. Engineering leadership for 9+ years, software engineering for 20+.

Chicago, ILdandigangi@proton.meBuild experiences, not software

Experience

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Postmark

  • Scaled email throughput from 2B to 3B+ emails/month in 10 months, maintaining ~200ms per message processing performance through MTA expansion and infrastructure growth.
  • Prevented $1.5M+ in fraud by architecting a multi-layer security platform spanning AI content moderation, fraud detection, WAF/firewall edge protection, and eHawk traffic analysis.
  • Grew the engineering organization from 6 to 11 FTE and hired 6 contractors, expanding delivery capacity across .NET backend, web, platform/SRE, and security/compliance functions.
  • Led cross-functional initiatives including pricing redesign, high-traffic legacy Windows service migration, ZenDesk migration, SOC2 compliance, and billing platform migration.
  • Led and hired the Velocity team (3 reports) delivering special projects, features, and applications supporting the BTS org across finance, growth, and internal services.
Apr 2024 — Sep 2026 (Layoff)

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Arrive Logistics

  • Led the TSO (3 reports), finance/accounting (8 reports), and load services (9 reports) teams responsible for core business operations from shipping to financial transactions across 20 direct reports.
  • Delivered complex E2E shipping workflow UIs leveraging federated modules, new finance microservices, 3rd party accounting integrations, and re-architected the service domain model.
  • Delivered an automated real-time AI/ML based shipment pricing model in collaboration with the data science team and led a Docker to Kubernetes migration across highly coupled organization-wide applications.
Jul 2022 — May 2023

Software Engineering Manager

DocuSign

  • Built and scaled CLM's Buy/Sell team from the ground up, hiring 7 full stack engineers responsible for buy/sell contract management, party management, global user experience, and accessibility.
  • Delivered WCAG 2.1 accessibility across major UI components in collaboration with enterprise customers, ensuring compliance at global scale.
  • Implemented on-call rotations and E2E test automation increasing coverage by 60%+ and reducing regressions and escalations (~9%).
May 2020 — Jul 2022

Software Engineering Manager

OpenLane

  • Promoted from Lead Frontend Engineer to Engineering Manager, growing to lead 3 product engineering teams across 12 engineers, 2 contractors, and 1 manager spanning React, Node, Java, and Python.
  • Led integration of DRIVIN engineering through the OpenLane/KAR acquisition, built a redefined cross-functional SDLC, and scaled delivery capacity through internal and 3rd party recruiting.
  • Delivered complex financial and analytics products using TensorFlow pricing models, established front end standards of practice, increased testing coverage (~42%), reduced defects (~21%), and stabilized release processes.
Jul 2017 — May 2020
Education

Bachelor's Degree, Web Design & Interactive Media

The Art Institutes — IL Institute of Art

2007 — 2010
Other
  • React Chicago Conference Organizer
  • ActiveAbility Mental Health ERG Founder
  • Postmark Open Source Contributor
  • Technical Leadership Speaker & Writer
  • Engineering Mentor & Educator