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Ritesh Kumar

Director of Engineering

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India12 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building and mentoring technical teams.
  • Led major licensing model change recognized by Gartner.
  • Successfully managed large-scale data ingestion systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong leadership in platform engineering and data management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team ManagementData IngestionProject ManagementTeam BuildingFrontend

Other Skills

Agent based CollectionAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSArchitectureBack-End Web DevelopmentBilling SystemsBootstrapCollectionCommunicationCross-functional Team LeadershipData CollectionDistributed SystemsEmber.js

About

11+ Experience in the industry. Love solving problems by building platforms at scale which makes life easier for the customer be it external or internal engineering teams. 7+ years of expertise in working in a cross-geo environment including the US, Europe, North America, etc., maintaining an effective communication model and a good work-life balance. Expertise in building teams from scratch. Growing and Mentoring Technical leaders and providing them opportunities for the growth path that they aspire for. Experienced in Managing multiple teams by creating vision, and working with leadership to align with the company growth. I have lead teams heavy on Platforms (Backend and UI) and Product Centric. Comfortable with changes, A lot of major changes including changes from as a core UI developer to learning backend systems and then leading and building Backend heavy team and then Large-scale Data Collection and tracing. Also have expertise in Open telemetry collection.

Experience

Sumo logic

4 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos

Sr. Engineering Manager, Managing Multiple teams

Feb 2022Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Managing Data Collection Team, Tracing team, Business Enablement.
  • Data Collection team in India, responsible for 1PB+ Logs Ingestion every day. Also responsible for Sumo Installed collector, an agent that sends data from customer machines to the Sumologic platform.
  • Leading Open Telemetry remote management to provide customer push configuration to 1000s of Sumo managed Open Telemetry agents from backend systems at scale by tag-based approach. Setting up a new Open Telemetry Agent page for managing new Open telemetry agents.
  • Lead Cost reduction effort in the Data collection team by reducing the internal ingestion by 60% helping achieve.
  • Managing multiple Platform Engineering teams with 20+ highly efficient members in India including Data Collection team and Business Enablement team. Successfully built Technical and People leaders in the Business Enablement team to reduce my reliance on the team.
TeamworkOpen Telemetry CollectionMicroservicesData IngestionTeam ManagementTeam Building+11

Engineering Manager, Business Enablement Team

Promoted

Sep 2018Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Built Business Enablement team, a part of Platform Engineering from scratch, grew the team from 1 junior developer to 9 member team, Including Backend, UI, UX, QE, and PM.
  • Led a major change in the licensing model from Cloudflex to credit-based licensing to grow our customer base. Managed to migrate 90% of the customers to the new licensing plan, Seen a great success and it was also highlighted by Gartner MQ as one of the reasons Customer loves Sumologic for.
  • Led Multi-Account Management (Sumo Organizations) from scratch catering to Multi Million dollar customers, This is a platform for modern approach for Large Enterprises, MSPs and MSSPs to centrally manage multiple customer deployments utilizing the Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ and Cloud SIEM. Seen a great success under a year with 100+ top sumo customers onboarded.
  • Led Self Service Billing to support the PLG motion to cater to smaller ARR customers by reducing our Sales team and TAMs time on these accounts. Developed Experience in Zuora as a tool for Billing and Subscription.
  • Getting overall alert volume down by > 90% and improving the operational cost of the team.
  • Led taking UI assets on CDN for Sumologic.
  • Led and Won three Hackathons over these years with popular voting.
MicroservicesTeam BuildingSubscription BillingBilling SystemsUIScala+8

Senior Software Developer

Jan 2016Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • One of the founding members of the Frontend team in India, Actively worked with developers in the US counterparts to get context in India. Later, Build and grow the UI team to 8+ UI folks actively set up processes, and maintain a very low attrition rate.
  • Was responsible for managing the UI work required in India and the US from a 5+ backend-heavy team. And supporting the product.
  • Led the UI team in introducing React JS to Sumologic to pave a path of moving away from Angular JS which was causing performance issues in the application.
  • Led and built UI Platforms by driving APIs driven UI including Config Driven Management pages and Config Driven Forms from Ideation to successful adoption which helped Sumo to move all 25+ management pages with consistent UI over a period of 2 years, by reducing the creation of a single management page from 1 quarter efforts including UX, UI, QE to just 1 week time by writing configs.
  • Improved performance of Sumo Dashboard with 20+ panels in a single to avoid hanging.
React.jsPlatformIdeas DevelopmentAngularJSFrontendProject Planning+3

Housing.com

Software Developer

Oct 2014Jan 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Worked as a Frontend Developer using Backbone.js, Node.js. Dedicated to responsive UI Development to accomplish better user experience. Also, take care of cross-browser compatibility.
  • Slice View: Core member of the Flagship product from Housing for making buying experience better for customers using SVGs based Modeling. Enabled users to navigate Housing by browsing different floors, to flats and rooms in a flat.
  • Part of the team that brought React.js to Housing.com and also helped implement server-side rendering to improve the performance of the product.

Navyug infosolutions pvt. ltd.

Software Developer

Jun 2013Oct 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Noida

  • Soulstay: Development of web portals for Retired Army Officials to offer their house for BNB or organize camps and tours
  • Scimap: Core Member of Web App Development Team that Analyzes the Cash Flow Potential within Supply Chain Solutions make better buying decisions as well as negotiate optimized payment terms, putting power to improve working capital for a company.Soulstay: Development of web portals for Retired Army Officials to offer their house for BNB or organize camps and tours
  • Scimap: Core Member of Web App Development Team that Analyzes the Cash Flow Potential within Supply Chain Solutions makes better buying decisions as well and negotiates optimized payment terms, putting power to improve working capital for a company.
Ember.jsProgrammingAngularJS

Roboinvention pvt lmt

Training and Internship

Jun 2011Jul 2011 · 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Learnt Arduino Platform. Built Advanced Matrix calculator using Nokia 1100 LCD screen.
  • Click this link to view my project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLJENcK8xtE.

Education

Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute Of Technology , Jalandhar ,Punjab

Graduation — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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