Rahul A.

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 3 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Successfully scaled startups from 0 to 1 and 10x growth.
  • Expert in data-driven business strategies and P&L management.
  • Proven track record in enhancing customer experience and retention.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Mobility expert with a strong focus on growth strategies and operational excellence.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyLeadershipAnalytical Skills

Other Skills

Business DevelopmentBusiness Process ImprovementCC++Data StructuresEvent ManagementGame TheoryGrowth MarketingGrowth StrategiesHTMLInvestor ReportingManaging Business GrowthMathematical ModelingMicroeconomicsMicrosoft Excel

About

Accomplished growth and strategy professional, company builder and business leader with 7+ years of startup experience scaling startups from 0 to 1 and x to 10x in b2c internet space. Data - driven business strategist and first-principle thinker leveraging technology to maximize business potential. Skilled in P&L management, org development, setting KPIs, conducting weekly reviews, working with CXOs & senior leadership

Experience

Zepto

2 roles

Director

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos · On-site

Associate Director

Nov 2023May 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · On-site

Business DevelopmentLeadershipAnalytical SkillsBusiness Strategy

Rupeek

2 roles

Associate Director - Business

Jan 2023Oct 2023 · 9 mos · On-site

  • Co-led growth strategy to grow monthly disbursals 2x to 600+ crore
  • New Channel Development:
  • Scaled Balance Transfer Channel from scratch to 50 crores monthly disbursals
  • Setup entire charter - ideation, hiring, setting targets, defining KPIs, and execution
  • Affiliate Partnerships: Onboarded 7 BFSI affiliates to generate 5 lakh monthly leads contributing to 70 crores of disbursals
  • Productivity maximization: Boosted agent productivity by 4x to 40 lakhs/agent through Data Science models to filter top 10% leads
  • P&L improvement: Revamped pricing strategy along with category to reduce monthly burn by 60% basis market insights
Analytical SkillsBusiness Strategy

Senior Manager - Growth and Retention

Sep 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · On-site

  • Led the post disbursement org of 50 people to improve average tenor by 20% to 170 days
  • Retention: Setup a retention desk that reduced monthly closures by 50 crores (25% of closures)
  • Repeat & Loyalty: Improved repeat rate and loyalty to 75% through PN, schemes and retargetting by field teams
  • Renewals: Scaled monthly renewal from 130 crores(45%) to 300 crores(55%) with zero human touch scaleup
  • Auction and Collections: Implemented industry best practices to improve conversions in bucket 1 and 2 to reduce NPA from 2.5% to 1.5%
Analytical Skills

Udaan.com

Central Projects - FMCG

Jul 2020Sep 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Revenue Growth:
  • Improved margin by 200 basis points through pricing guardrails, SKU mix and control on low-margin SKUs
  • Inventory Control:
  • Curated top 600 SKUs from 3000 SKUs via Nielsen data to control inventory & improve assortment Setup liquidation process to sell aging inventory at discounted rates
  • Organic Growth:
  • Improved organic order share and AOV by 10% through midnight bazaar, bundling, & cross-selling Enhanced the funnel by 20% across different stages through better search, indexing, & navigation
Analytical Skills

Vogo automotive pvt. ltd.

Senior Manager - Strategy and Planning

May 2019Jul 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Growth & Business Strategy
  • Designed and implemented RFM marketing strategies from scratch to achieve 15% MOM growth from November to January through better retention and reactivation
  • Developed a long – term plan for growth team to improve on each levels of demand generation, conversion and other strategic initiatives
  • Designed customer journey flows to improve conversion % for new user acquisition by 20%
  • Pilot different business models like rentals, public parking and pricing strategies basis competition to improve CM and fuel growth
  • Finalized offers and marketing strategies to increase rides with low burn basis learning from different campaigns
  • Ops,Growth Planning & Roadmap
  • Operations Planning: Defined and tracked operational cost and fleet availability targets for all 8 categories in Operations to achieve operational level profitability (CM +ve)
  • Growth Planning: Defined acquisition, retention channels to optimize CAC and burn per order, improve network density through launch of new stations to increase topline / revenue
  • AOP Planning : Designed QOQ and AOP planning for both Ops and Growth for year 2020
  • Defined process initiatives & product roadmap for next quarter to achieve targets
  • Investor Relations & Reporting
  • Liaison with OLA Fleet team to provide weekly data, RCAs & ensure asset health of entire 6k OLA fleet
  • Report operations level data and initiatives planned to VCs for investor’s pitch and weekly reporting
  • Operational / Process Excellence
  • Head 4 categories to ensure asset health of all 13k scooters, improve fleet availability % from 85% to 92% and reduce operations cost / km
  • Design and launch strategies to reduce fuel fraud by 20 ps / Km to save 20lakh monthly through customer refueling, fuel handover, limit setting and audit process
  • Piloted with different vendors like ReadyAssist, Awign, others for overall fleet management
Analytical Skills

Nestassist (a nestaway company)

CEO's office

Jan 2019May 2019 · 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Investor's pitch and reporting
  • Prepared investor’s deck about idea, problem, solution, market size, unit economics and growth projections used for investor’s meeting to raise Series A funding
  • Prepared a 3-year financial model with growth projections, direct and indirect costs to calculate CM, burn rate, EBITDA for funding required YOY
  • Category and Product Management
  • Followed 5-day design sprint process used by Google Ventures to finalize category offering, pricing
  • Launched a pilot for housekeeping and food category across 100 houses as a proof of concept
  • Prepared user stories and wireframe for customer, vendor and internal users
  • Improved PnL to add monthly revenue of 5 lakhs and reduce operational cost through tech changes in ongoing Assured subscription and adhoc maintenance requests for Nestaway
  • Market Research
  • Conducted telephonic, f2f customer survey to understand customer pain points in current market & affinity to use different services
  • Researched online to refine idea basis successful business model from services companies in US and China
Analytical Skills

Nestaway technologies pvt ltd

Manager - Founder's office

Apr 2018May 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore · On-site

  • Customer Experience and Customer Care Process Enhancement
  • Cost Optimization and Product Management
  • Launched Automated Dispute Resolution to auto -resolve 1K monthly tickets (5%) real time
  • Improved ticket handling process through Auto First Response and Auto Work Orders to save 2000 man-hours per month (10% reduction in functional cost)
  • Revamped communication templates sent to customer, internal processes to reduce tickets/tenant by 15%
  • Transformation and Operations Excellence
  • Introduced prioritization score and auto work orders to improve average resolution TAT from 8 days in April to 2 days in September
  • Improved % of tickets resolved within 30 minutes from 2% in April to 30% in September through better manpower planning and ticket assignment
  • Team Management
  • Led team of 3 interns to deploy Agent Knowledge Bank of standard SOPs to follow for 200 issue types
  • Devised new metrics and created a single – view dashboard across levels to track and drive performance
Analytical Skills

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

Associate Program Manager

Jul 2016Mar 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

  • Customer Experience Enhancement Program (Jul’16-Feb’17)
  • Designed and Implemented Driver Performance Management System across PAN INDIA working with city quality managers and reduced customer complaints by 40% in 2 quarters
  • Used FMEA approach to identify 8 high impactful attributes from 28 different pain areas of customer basis RPN
  • Designed partner scorecard and decision matrices for SMS alerts, counselling, penalty ,training videos sent to drivers based
  • on severity and occurrence of offences
  • Eliminated the occurrence of fraud rides by implementing OTP solution to start ride
  • Led team of 15 tele-callers for exhaustive training of drivers to improve their performance basis customer feedback
  • Railways and Airports Launch Playbook (Sep’17-Nov’17)
  • Developed user-friendly playbook for easy launch with checklist of 36 items in chronological order from launch date along
  • with process owners, duration of activity and CFTs involved
  • Designed Do’s & Don’ts list to avoid commonly occurring errors basis experiential learning from live station
  • Spearheaded successful launch of 2 railway stations and deployed launch playbook over 100+ cities for launch of over 200 railway stations over next year
  • Outages Incident Management (Dec’17-Mar’18)
  • Developed playbook for remediation actions and communication templates for communications to customers / partners for 30 potential outages to minimize impact
  • Developed a trigger mechanism and thresholds for dispositions at Customer & Partner Care for faster detection of outages

Galaxy'16

Overall Coordinator

Feb 2016Feb 2016 · 0 mo · IIT Kanpur

Flashdoor

Operations and Marketing Intern

Mar 2015Jul 2015 · 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Analytics
  • Prepared a list of laundromats priority-wise for business expansion using Google maps, voter’s data and CCD data.
  • Used Google Analytics to improve the marketing strategy for customer acquisition.
  • Marketing
  • Publicized the product on social media using Google Adwords and Promote Call to Action on facebook.
  • Initiated various discounts and offers for customer acquisition after analyzing competitor’s strategy.
  • Learned about the conversions from marketing approaches like Refer a friend, Coupon marketing, Twitter campaigns, pamphlet marketing.
  • Business Development
  • Collabrated with 5 laundromats and delivery service to start operations in Bangalore.
  • Handled customer support to answer the queries of customers and explain business model to laundromats.
  • Coordinated with 5 membered team to help them to build company’s website and mobile application.

Antaragni iit kanpur

Head Show Management

Jan 2015Dec 2015 · 11 mos · Greater Lucknow Area · On-site

  • Leadership:
  • Spearheaded 300+ students to organize 50th edition with ₹1 crore budget, attended by 40000 people
  • Teamwork: Managed 40 lacs budget by coordinating with 50 vendors and 500 workers

Iit kanpur

Maintenance Secretary Hall 3

Apr 2013Mar 2014 · 11 mos · Greater Lucknow Area · On-site

  • Co-led 500 students to win General Championship Trophy for the first time in inter-hostel events
  • Co - led 500 students to win inter hostel cultural event Galaxy by biggest margin for 4th consecutive year

Education

Central Academy Jodhpur

AISSE(CBSE)

Jan 1998Jan 2012

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

BS — Mathematics and Scientific Computing

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