Hello, I'm Hina Gandhi

Technical Leader | Author | Speaker | Mentor

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About Me

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Welcome to my portfolio! I am a Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco’s Security Business Group, where I focus on designing and developing scalable, high-performance cloud solutions. Previously, I worked at VMware and CloudHealth Technologies, where I led initiatives to build SaaS applications and build big data environments—achieving up to 25× performance improvements and advancing governance practices in the FinOps market.

I serve as the Secretary of the IEEE Young Professionals Chapter at the New Jersey Coast Section, helping foster collaboration and professional growth among emerging engineers and technologists.

My professional interests span cloud architecture, security, and data-driven optimization for enterprise systems.

Achievements

💼 Industry Experience

Software Engineering Technical Leader

Cisco Security Business Group

April 2022 - Present

  • Leading posture service initiative to check security posture of the devices for compliance
  • Using Apache flink, kafka, Java and AWS services for near real time data processing and compliance checks
  • Mentoring and guiding engineers to build scalable and efficient solutions
  • Led end to end engineering effort to transform monolith service to cloud based microservice for faster export of vulnerability data leading to 90% improvement in export time
  • Built cloud native microservice that helped in reduction of service outages and maintained an SLA of 99.99%
  • Serving as an advisor in Cisco Women in CyberSecurity Speaker Series

Senior Member of Technical Staff

VMware

August 2017 - April 2022

  • Built scalable and cost-efficient data pipeline to build OLAP cubes which when compared with existing framework was 10 times faster and more scalable
  • Implemented spring boot application to process voluminous transactional data related to cloud services (>= 50 GB) to create memory efficient artifacts that were used by downstream processes
  • Optimized spark-based service by tuning system resources, spark configuration and by writing efficient spark queries(very large jobs taking 3 days to finish were reduced to few seconds)
  • Built a test framework for simulation based local & CI/CD testing of our in-house job orchestrator
  • Built a fast and efficient multi-threaded java service to process streams of CSV data to build uni]ied parquet sets
  • Onboarded new engineers to the team and provided training on the technologies and tools used in the project
  • Built Azure Cost Management and Governance platform that created new revenue stream for the company
  • Awards Received: Accelerate Our Best, Achieve Our Best and Elevate Our Best for technical leadership and innovation

Software Engineer Intern

CloudHealth

May 2016 - December 2016

  • Built a cron based nightly job to collect usage hours, network cost, compute cost and total cost of azure VM instances
  • Wrote an asynchronous job to test the credentials provided by azure customer and check if Cloudhealth can access customer’s azure resources
  • Wrote automated E2E tests to catch UI bugs after every release in every stage of deployment

🎤 On Stage

⚖️ Advisory & Judging Roles

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