Lokesh Chauhan

CTO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India16 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led technology strategy for India's largest OTT service.
Successfully co-founded and sold a secure chat platform.
Expert in building scalable technology architectures.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C technology leader with extensive experience in scalable platforms and digital transformation.

Contact

lokeshchauhan@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipStrategic PlanningSoftware DevelopmentProduct StrategyManagement

Other Skills

AWS Cloud MigrationAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsApacheB2C e-commerceBusiness StrategyCapital ExpendituresCenter of ExcellenceCloud ComputingCloud MigrationComplex SystemsContent Distribution NetworksCritical ThinkingCross-functional Team LeadershipData Privacy

About

As the Chief Technology Officer at ErosNow, I lead the strategic planning, product scoping, team building, and scaling of the technology platform that powers one of the largest OTT services in India. I have over 15 years of experience in developing and managing large-scale technology platforms across various domains, including fintech, foodtech, delivery, payments, and e-commerce. I am a technocrat with a successful entrepreneurial background, having co-founded and sold Plustxt, a secure chat platform catering to Indian local languages, to Paytm in 2013. I am also an IIT Bombay Alumni and have worked with quality tech-focused companies like Zomato, Paytm, and Craftsvilla. My key strengths lie in building SOA architecture with high scalability, real-time services, and adopting new open source technologies. I have extensive experience with cloud infrastructure and multiple CDNs for low latency delivery of static and dynamic content. My mission is to leverage my expertise and passion to create innovative and engaging solutions for the OTT industry.

Experience

Eros media world plc

Chief Technology Officer - ErosNow

May 2018 – Oct 2023 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Organizational LeadershipCloud MigrationAWS Cloud MigrationCenter of ExcellenceStreaming MediaTechnical Leadership+12

Zomato

Vice President Engineering

Jan 2017 – Jun 2017 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

Overhauled Online ordering Bakcend.
Chains Integration streamlined

Center of ExcellenceCloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentProduct StrategiesResource AllocationTechnical Leadership+22

Craftsvilla

Vice President of Engineering

Feb 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Built a world class team to take Craftsvilla forward.
Accelerated strength of tech team from 10 to 75+ while focussing on bringing high quality of engineers.
Worked closely with vendors and marketing partners for bringing efficiency and better functionality on web and app.
Led architectural revamp of Android App and introduction of IOS App with new API platform.
Architected Angularjs webapp to decouple & streamline checkout flow with rich user experience. 40% improvement in conversions(successful payments).
Revamped search and related serving services' performance.
Partially built micro-services architecture to revamp the underlying technology stack.
Architecting Data infrastructure and Intelligence solutions using pluggable components from AWS
Did infrastructural changes to handle scale. Was able to successfully handle all event/campaign based traffic which is pivotal to ecommerce.

Center of ExcellenceCloud ComputingElasticsearchSoftware DevelopmentProduct StrategiesResource Allocation+21

Paytm

Engineering Manager

Aug 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Led Engineering team at Paytm Bangalore office. Owner of PaywithPaytm -
Paytm’s 3rd party payments platform and Messaging platforms. Joined in as part of acquisition deal of Plustxt for building elite engineering unit for Paytm.
Conceptualised and architected PaywithPaytm infrastructure and WEB/APP SDKs.
Oversaw development of PayWithPaytm SDKs and Paytm wallet app with external agency.
Led the development for backend of Paytm wallet app (Enabling P2P transfers between wallets).
Built offline payments solution using paytm wallet based on QR code.
Developed products built on messaging infra (bargain, request payments)
Hired and mentored engineering team of 15+ developers for Bangalore office
Environment: Python (Django framework), mysql, Nginx, ejabberd, Amazon web services stack (SQS, S3,EC2 and RDS), asmack, Android, IOS, angular.js, node.js

Center of ExcellenceCloud ComputingElasticsearchSoftware DevelopmentProduct StrategiesResource Allocation+18

Plustxt

Co-Founder & Head of Engg

Jun 2011 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Plustxt has been acquired by One97 as of August 2013.
Build chat platform (Plustxt) on Android and IOS platforms. Plustxt was selected
in Microsoft accelerator programme. Post Angel round Paytm acquired the startup.
Played role of architect and developed entire server side infrastructure leading a distributed team of handpicked development resources.
Identification and implementation of solution stack for web components exposing APIs.
Wrote custom mods for extending XMPP standards and integration with web backend.
Modification and assimilation of asmack library for android creating base for xmpp messaging layer integral to the client.
Environment: Python (Django framework), mysql, Nginx, JQuery, ejabberd, Amazon web services stack (SQS, S3,EC2 and RDS), asmack, android.

Cloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentProduct StrategiesResource AllocationInfrastructureTechnical Leadership+13

Balaji telefilms ltd.

Manager - New Media

Apr 2009 – May 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Building a New Media business platform
Mobile and Internet business for the Balaji Telefilms group that is one of the largest Production Companies in India.
Successful infrastructure choices to handle load of event driven traffic.
Was able to position Hoonur.com into top 100 most visited sites of India.
Environment: Python (Django framework), mysql, Nginx & Varnish (static content delivery and caching).

Cloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentManagementTechnology LeadershipAlgorithmsApache+1