Rati Saurabh Saxena

Director of Engineering

Gurugram, Haryana, India20 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

20 years of experience across multiple domains.
Expert in building high-performing engineering teams.
Proven track record in predictive AI model development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce technology leader with extensive experience in engineering management.

Contact

ratisaurabh.saxena@yum.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Digital StrategyTeam BuildingPredictive ModelingArchitecture

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesData EngineeringEngineering ManagementHiringLeadershipMicroservicesProcess ImprovementSoftware Development

About

Experienced technology leader with 20 years of experience in QSR, fintech, e-commerce & travel domains. 12+ years of leadership experience in building high performing engineering teams from scratch and grooming into self-sustainable, motivated, highly productive cross-location teams. Experience in hiring\grooming managers, leads, architects, developers, QA, support engineers and freshers via campus hiring. Experience in building predictive AI models to forecast customer behavior, recommendation engine, future projections. Experience in vendor management/deliveries, working with cross-functional stakeholders, planning, executing & delivering business requirements into useful software products. Experience in setting up and driving engineering excellence practices; like Agile (sprint) model for faster and predictable delivery, monitoring\tracking and improving systems availability, implementing industry standard security practices to prevent breaches & secure customers’ PI. Experience in building highly scalable systems using SOA, micro services with latest technologies.

Experience

Yum! brands

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos

Leading the engineering strategy for AI-driven personalization and conversational platforms, ensuring alignment of global and franchise AI initiatives with business objectives.
Working with global and regional teams to define and execute a forward-looking technology roadmap spanning eCommerce, in-store technologies, and cloud infrastructure.
IT infrastructure improvement through rigorous audits and advanced security frameworks, proactively addressing vulnerabilities to strengthen organizational resilience.
Leading engineering budget management, applying data-driven insights to optimize investments in infrastructure, applications, and workforce scalability.

Digital Strategy

Engineering Consultant

Apr 2024 – Mar 2025 · 11 mos

Paytail

Chief Technology Officer

Jan 2022 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Built the entire engineering team from scratch and groomed a 45 people high performing team.
Built top class engineering products for merchant onboarding and consumer loan application journey.
Setup the entire data engineering team and data pipelines from complex financial data. Published multiple dashboards for different business and financial use cases.
Worked with in-house and partner teams to build and evolve sophisticated predictive AI models to forecast customer delinquency, collection strategies and future projections.
Performed multiple iterations and built sophisticated algorithms for real time fraud and risk prevention to underwrite new customers.
Built end to end modular tech platform for various third party integrations, lender integrations, loan cycle management & collections.
Worked with various vendors on TnM, fixed cost and SaaS delivery model for faster execution and timely deliveries.

Digital Strategy

Monster india

Director Of Engineering

Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Led job seeker platform revamp from an old monolith to microservices based on the latest tech stack architecture.
Led the backend and frontend engineering teams for Monster Job Seeker Platform, Career Services & Payment Portal.
Built data pipelines from multiple data sources for analytics and dashboarding.
Worked with various vendors on the TnM & SaaS delivery models.

Digital Strategy

Mobikwik

AVP Engineering

Feb 2018 – Jan 2019 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Led a team of 26 engineers to deliver MobiKwik lending product, SafeGold integration, Insurance and optimizing online and offline merchant flows.

Digital Strategy

Yatra.com

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2014 – Feb 2018 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Led a team of 75 engineers; worked on revamp for various Yatra products to improve scalability and performance. Leading bus\train engineering teams, ‘Yatra Mini’ mobile app and Yatra QA team. Drove entire engineering hiring for yatra.com for lateral and campus hires for developers, QA and support engineers across location for 4 years.

Digital Strategy