Tell us about the achievement you are most proud of? Why?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

The accomplishment that i am most proud of is leading the development and launch
of Order Service API at my previous company . The project is significant to me
due to technical challenges we faced , the skills i applied and the substantial
impact on the company’s operation
At the time , our ecommerce platform was hindered by monolithic architecture and
outdated order management system which led to inefficiencies and frequent
failure.'I was entrusted with the exciting challenge of developing a new Order
Service API that could handle order creation, inventory fetching , product
details while also integrating 3rd party tools for communication . We updated
the programming language and underlying architecture to scale the platform and
manage it  and integrated with 3rd Party apps .One of the major challenges was
to maintain backward compatibility and ensure the new platform works hand in
hand with existing platform and manage real time data effectively.After months
of rigorous development and testing and iterative improvements based on user
feedback we successfully deployed the API . The new system streamlined order
management , provided real time order tracking and automated communications with
customers. It resulted in 30% reduction in order processing and significant
decrease in customer complaints . It was a great learning opportunity that
challenged my technical and leadership skills and positive results validated the
value of using latest technology

Anonymous · Answer

The accomplishment I am most proud of in my career as a software developer is
leading the development and successful launch of a comprehensive Order Service
API at my previous company. This project is particularly significant to me due
to the technical challenges we faced, the skills I applied, and the substantial
impact it had on the company’s operations.
At the time, our e-commerce platform was hindered by a monolithic architecture
and outdated order management system, which led to inefficiencies and frequent
system failures. My task was to design and develop a new Order Service API that
could handle order creation, detail fetching, and inventory management, while
also integrating with third-party tools for communications.
I led a small team through the transition from PHP to Go and from a monolithic
architecture to microservices. We employed a modern tech stack, with Go for
backend development and established seamless integrations with services like
Twilio and Mgage for notifications. One of the major challenges was ensuring the
new system integrated smoothly with our existing e-commerce platform and managed
real-time data effectively.
After months of rigorous development, testing, and iterative improvements based
on user feedback, we successfully deployed the API. The new system streamlined
order management, provided real-time order tracking, and automated
communications with customers. It resulted in a 30% reduction in order
processing times and a significant decrease in customer complaints related to
order issues.
This project not only enhanced operational efficiency but also improved overall
customer satisfaction due to more reliable and timely order updates. It was a
profound learning experience that challenged my technical and leadership skills,
and the positive results validated the value of our technological advancements
in solving real business problems.

Anonymous · Answer

I led the UX design for automated sandbox creation and management, significantly
reducing manual migrations from months to minutes through agile development and
cross-functional collaboration. The system enabled self-service management,
simplified user access control, and provided a dynamic dashboard for clear
sandbox oversight. Enhanced security and transparency were achieved through
detailed logs and full visibility of sandbox changes. User research, stakeholder
workshops, and iterative design processes ensured the solution met user needs.
The project reduced environment sync time, empowered users to manage data
privacy settings independently, and achieved a 60% adoption rate, saving the
operations team 72 hours per week and $12,000 annually in baseline costs.

CAB(Research 10) -> Phase 1 Designs -> Private Preview 1(CAB: usability testing
- create, delete, & refresh, 7 customers interview) + GA(300+ customers) ongoing
feedback -> Phase 2 ->  Usability testing Plan

UX Case Study: Automated Sandbox Creation and Management for OneTrust
Project Ownership:
• Led the UX design for automated sandbox creation and management, supporting
various modules and empowering over 300 clients.
• Achieved a reduction in manual migrations from months to minutes through agile
development and cross-functional collaboration.
Key Themes:
Effortless Sandbox Management:
• Self-Service Management: Enabled users to create and manage sandbox
environments independently.
• User Provisioning & Access Management: Simplified control of user access to
production and sandbox environments.
• Quick Sandbox Creation: Allowed swift development in isolated environments.
• Safe Deletion: Provided secure management of workspace by deleting outdated
sandboxes.
• Dynamic Dashboard: Offered a clear overview of all sandboxes at a glance.
Enhanced Security and Control:
• Effortless Configuration Testing: Enabled testing changes without impacting
production.
• Full Visibility: Tracked all changes made within sandbox environments.
• Transparency: Detailed logs ensured a clear understanding of every action
within the sandbox.
Current State:
• OneTrust customers commonly have a production tenant and a UAT tenant in
separate environments.
• 80-90% of customers copy data from production to UAT to ensure accurate
testing.
• Collaboration with Cloud OPS revealed 70% of tickets related to aligning
production with UAT.
• 300 clients supported this idea on the Ideas portal.
Sandbox Solution:
• Sandbox Creation: Newly created tenants in the same environment as production,
containing a copy of production configuration data.
• Long-term Goal: Promote data from sandbox to production.
• Focus: Simplify deployment between production and sandbox environments.
Design Process:
1. Kickoff Workshops: Organized two workshops with stakeholders to gather
perspectives, priorities, business goals, constraints, user insights, and prior
research findings.
2. User Research: Conducted 10 moderated interviews to identify pain points in
existing processes. Created user personas, journey maps, and prioritized
critical features.
3. Market Research: Ensured alignment with industry standards and user
expectations (ServiceNow & Salesforce).
4. Iterative Design: Crafted and prototyped high-fidelity solutions,
incorporating weekly feedback from stakeholders (PM, Dev, Content Writer,
Peers).
5. Consistency and Accessibility: Utilized OneCore design components and
developed specific local components.
6. Feedback Integration: Facilitated feedback sessions, integrated customer
input during Sandbox Private Preview, and implemented a survey system for
continuous feedback.
7. Ongoing Support: Provided developer hand-off, ongoing UI enhancements, and
addressed bugs.
8. Phase 2 in Progress: Includes promotion designs.
Customer Impact:
• Reduced Sync Time: Environment sync time reduced from months to minutes.
• Empowered Users: Users can test and configure data privacy settings
independently.
• Improved Satisfaction: Satisfaction score improved to 7.2/9.
• High Adoption Rate: Achieved a 60% adoption rate, with 9 out of 15 modules
adopting the new automated sandbox.
Potential Business Impact:
• Time Savings: Saved the operations team 72 hours per week through automation
(28 consultants).
• Cost Savings: Customers save at least $12,000 annually on baseline costs.
• Streamlined Processes: Potentially eliminated the 2-month CloudOps queue
backlog.
• Leadership Position: Positioned OneTrust as a leader in user-friendly and
efficient data privacy solutions.

Anonymous · Answer

The accomplishment that i am most proud of is leading the development and launch
of Order Service API at my previous company . The project is significant to me
due to technical challenges we faced , the skills i applied and the substantial
impact on the company’s operation

At the time , our ecommerce platform was hindered by monolithic architecture and
outdated order management system which led to inefficiencies and frequent
failure.'I was entrusted with the exciting challenge of developing a new Order
Service API that could handle order creation, inventory fetching , product
details while also integrating 3rd party tools for communication . We updated
the programming language and underlying architecture to scale the platform and
manage it  and integrated with 3rd Party apps .One of the major challenges was
to maintain backward compatibility and ensure the new platform works hand in
hand with existing platform and manage real time data effectively.After months
of rigorous development and testing and iterative improvements based on user
feedback we successfully deployed the API . The new system streamlined order
management , provided real time order tracking and automated communications with
customers. It resulted in 30% reduction in order processing and significant
decrease in customer complaints . It was a great learning opportunity that
challenged my technical and leadership skills and positive results validated the
value of using latest technology

Anonymous · Answer

The accomplishment that i am most proud of is leading the development and launch
of Order Service API at my previous company . The project is significant to me
due to technical challenges we faced , the skills i applied and the substantial
impact on the company’s operation

At the time , our ecommerce platform was hindered by monolithic architecture and
outdated order management system which led to inefficiencies and frequent
failure.'I was entrusted with the exciting challenge of developing a new Order
Service API that could handle order creation, inventory fetching , product
details while also integrating 3rd party tools for communication . We updated
the programming language and underlying architecture to scale the platform and
manage it  and integrated with 3rd Party apps .One of the major challenges was
to maintain backward compatibility and ensure the new platform works hand in
hand with existing platform and manage real time data effectively.After months
of rigorous development and testing and iterative improvements based on user
feedback we successfully deployed the API . The new system streamlined order
management , provided real time order tracking and automated communications with
customers. It resulted in 30% reduction in order processing and significant
decrease in customer complaints . It was a great learning opportunity that
challenged my technical and leadership skills and positive results validated the
value of using latest technology

Anonymous · Answer

During my career I manage a large number of projects, but one of the most
challenging ones was the development and launch of a Telematic Control Unit for
an important car maker in Japan. The project is important to me due to technical
challenges we faced, the skills I applied and the impact on the company.
As Program manager my role was to lead a cross-functional team including Design
Engineers, SW Engineers, Operations teams, Material procurement teams, quality
and logistics, among others to successfully launch the product to mass
production.
First, I kicked-off the project. For that, I shared with the team the project
scope, the goals to achieve, I shared the project plan with key milestones and
defined the roles and responsibilities for the different team members.
During execution, to maintain a clear communication, I set up design review
sessions with the entire engineering organization to ensure everyone was aligned
and fixing potential issues in advance. Besides, I led a weekly core-team
meeting where we assigned tasks to team members, and setting clear deadlines for
each task. To make these tasks easier to manage, I made sure tasks were broken
down into manageable sizes with clear descriptions and acceptance criteria. This
helped the team to stay focus on their deliveries and maintain speed.
Another important part was to manages Risks. I worked with the team to identify
and classify possible risk that might impact to the project deliverables. We
defined a Risk matrix to monitor during the development process, and also a
project board with the main KPIs to achieve during each stage of the project.
To ensure quality, we defined different testing processes focused on the design,
and the process. We installed specific quality check for the documents and
devices delivered for each of the milestones of the PDP, as well as a clear
quality control in mass production.
Finally, for transparency, I reported on monthly basis to our company leaders
and customer about the project status, focusing on Timing, cost, quality and
scope.
By employing these strategies, we successfully launched our module on time
matching with all the requirements defined by our customer. This was a great
example of teamworking, and taught me the importance of breaking down large
projects into smaller and easy to manage pieces. Transparent and clear
communication was also a great lesson learned. This approach helped me to
improve in leading teams through complex problems.

Anonymous · Answer

My biggest success was the first time I was able to identify a customer pain
point and along with team effort, take the idea from 0 to 1 i.e. from a
prototype to deployment for customers. This happened when I was working on
Shipment Creation & Planning at Pando. To use the product, admins took about 30
days t compete setups with required intervention from sales team. Hence the time
to value was quite high. I thought o myself that there has to be a better way. I
eat back to the drawing board, and sketched out a solution to give customers
customisable services/ workflows that they can setup by themselves without sales
intervention. I pitched the idea to upper product management, and presented it
in quarterly product planning to gain buy-in promising that it would bring down
the implementation time by almost 50%. We took it under implementation, and
business impact was significant. It did reduce implementation times for existing
client and we offered it as an add-on feature for new clients.

Anonymous · Answer

The accomplishment that I'm proud of is the Okta SSO integration for the
engagement cloud platform. This was significant due to the impact it brought -
this was the first time the Self-serve tools to build a virtual assistant was
externalized and the technical challenges it entailed.

For this integration, I started with understanding OAuth2 authorization flow.
Client onboarding team was also doing this integration, They had a sssion with
the Okta team, so got a KT from them , which helped me get an idea on the
libraries supported by Okta to use for this integration. I was able to
successfully implement SSO locally . But when I tested with deploying it on a
host, the requests to the authorization server timed out. On debugging within
the host, I found that curl request to the authorization server worked. but
request from my code timed out. This request was made by the openid client
module. On research, I found that there was an existing issue with this module
using 'got' to make request. There was a workaround suggested to use 'request'.
This fixed the issue. During debugging , I had created this as an issue in the
okta middleware module. Communicated this fix there which was then added by
their team to their official docs as well as to my internal teams by addiing
this in a documentation that I created on the steps to integrate okta SSO.

Learning was the never give up attitude and tomake sure the learning is properly
documented and communicated to other teams.

Anonymous · Answer

As a super development engineer, I successfully meet the KPi by conducting
minimum 7supplier audit as listed in the workbook. I have to check the supplier
availability, review supplier company profile and documents, the products
records that supplier ship to my company to plan my audit question and agenda.
After confirming, I will conduct the audit either remotely or in site as per
agreed with management and supplier. during audit, I will review supplier
company documents like procedure, the records, do the observation and interview
with auditees. If there is any concerns, will highlight to auditees to discuss,
to reach mutual understanding before making the finding decision. If the finding
is firm, then have to communicate with supplier and get their agreement. The
findings will require supplier to provide 8D capa report which will be captured
in my company system.

Anonymous · Answer

As a super development engineer, I successfully meet the KPi by conducting
minimum 7supplier audit as listed in the workbook. I have to check the supplier
availability, review supplier company profile and documents, the products
records that supplier ship to my company to plan my audit question and agenda.
After confirming, I will conduct the audit either remotely or in site as per
agreed with management and supplier. during audit, I will review supplier
company documents like procedure, the records, do the observation and interview
with auditees. If there is any concerns, will highlight to auditees to discuss,
to reach mutual understanding before making the finding decision. If the finding
is firm, then have to communicate with supplier and get their agreement. The
findings will require supplier to provide 8D capa report which will be captured
in my company system.

Anonymous · Answer

As a super development engineer, I successfully meet the KPi by conducting
minimum 7supplier audit as listed in the workbook. I have to check the supplier
availability, review supplier company profile and documents, the products
records that supplier ship to my company to plan my audit question and agenda.
After confirming, I will conduct the audit either remotely or in site as per
agreed with management and supplier. during audit, I will review supplier
company documents like procedure, the records, do the observation and interview
with auditees. If there is any concerns, will highlight to auditees to discuss,
to reach mutual understanding before making the finding decision. If the finding
is firm, then have to communicate with supplier and get their agreement. The
findings will require supplier to provide 8D capa report which will be captured
in my company system.

Anonymous · Answer

something i think is significant is completing at full time third level
education while working full time also. managing my time such an extended period
of time to be able to do both i believe is a significant accomplishment for me.

Anonymous · Answer

something i think is significant is completing at full time third level
education while working full time also. managing my time such an extended period
of time to be able to do both i believe is a significant accomplishment for me.

Anonymous · Answer

For supplier development engineer, manage to fulfil KPi to audit minimum 7
supplier QMs and engineering capability. 
For materials Engineer in Agilent, success ly contribute cost saving of 100K usd
for casting and machining commodity cost saving and value engineering projects
annually,
Successly work with team to qualify Petg to replace CAP material for in house
extruder burette which contribute saving of 1 Usd in terms of finish goods cost

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