Presentation: "Agility in eBay"

Time: Thursday 15:35 - 16:35

Location: Concordia

Abstract: Over the past 15 years, eBay grew to become the world's largest online marketplace with more than 94 million globally active users. With more than $62 billion worth of goods sold annually ($2000 per second), product stability was prioritized to ensure flawless customer experience. Over the past few years the evolution in customer needs has necessitated eBay to prioritize agility over stability. This change in prioritization of business quality attributes has required changes in the overall architecture and development process. In this session, you will learn the main architectural principles and tradeoffs, as well as practices that enables a business like eBay to become more agile, in order to meet the ever evolving needs of its customers.

Deepak Nadig, eBay

Deepak Nadig

Deepak Nadig is Distinguished Application Architect at X.commerce, a division of eBay, Inc., which is developing the Commerce Operating System, a platform for commerce merchants and developers. Before X.commerce, Deepak managed the Enterprise Architecture team at eBay, which was responsible for Application, Technology and Data Architecture. At eBay, as a Distinguished Architect, Deepak led the architecture of eBay¹s advertising, analytics, experimentation and web services platforms.

Before eBay, Deepak was CTO at Convenos, which provided solutions for real-time conferencing. Earlier, Deepak was Chief Architect and co-founder at Covigna, a company providing solutions for contract lifecycle management. Prior to Covigna, Deepak held lead technology and architecture roles at HP and VeriFone.

Deepak has a BS in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, and MS from Louisiana State University.