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Deepak Poptani

Director of Engineering

North Delhi, Delhi, India9 yrs 3 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led teams to drive impactful engineering initiatives.
  • Architected scalable solutions for high-demand applications.
  • Achieved significant cost reductions through strategic planning.
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AlgorithmsAmazon DynamodbAmazon RDSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaCC++CassandraCouchbaseDAXData StructuresDeep LearningElasticSearchGitGo (Programming Language)

About

An exuberant and self-motivated software engineer with excellent organisational skills and a good eye for detail. Result Oriented & ownership-driven individual always excited to grab and solve challenging problems.

Experience

9 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 10 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Fox corporation

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Engineering Manager

May 2023Feb 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

Sharechat

3 roles

Engineering Manager - Content Delivery, Video and Audio

Dec 2022May 2023 · 5 mos

  • -Leading a team of 15+ engineers across 3 different teams (Content Delivery, Audio, and Video), I am responsible for driving alignment, and ensuring that each team is working towards the same goals.

Engineering Manager - Creator Monetisation and Commerce

Promoted

Mar 2022Dec 2022 · 9 mos

  • Led a team of 20+ engineers, wherein I ensure that they are aligned with the vision of the projects allocated to them, set clear expectations, give timely feedback, and also take responsibility for the team’s overall progress. I also ensure to push my team members to do better and also help them with upskilling and mentorship wherever required.
  • Built the entire engineering team from scratch to drive the team’s roadmap and charter for the Creator Monetisation initiative of connecting creators with monetization opportunities at scale. Resultantly, this has led to scaling the creator-led content marketing business to 30 Cr in 2022 and establishing a strong product market fit with large FMCG brands like Pepsi, Thumsup, Dettol, etc.
  • Moj <> Flipkart Partnership - Led and Successfully Launched the Entire Video and Live Commerce Integration With Flipkart. This is one of the largest partnerships with the leading e-commerce giant that turned out to be highly impactful. This involved road mapping, stakeholder management, task allocation, individual contribution, and process-driven reviews to ensure a seamless shopping experience to drive creator-led video, live, and contextual commerce. Drove partner integrations with Flipkart, Dukaan, and Shopify to create a seamless user experience for facilitating commerce inside the Moj App.
  • Introduced and formalized this process of writing unit test cases as a mandatory practice.
  • Prepared the roadmap for cost initiatives in creator-M and commerce and brought down the server cost of the team by 60%.

Technical Lead - AdTech

Jan 2021Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Architected the Ads on Moj Project from scratch. Prepared the entire roadmap for the execution and delivery of the project.
  • Streamlined and scaled the Instream Ads Creation Process to improve the operational efficiency of the existing setup via delivery and inventory management.
  • Designed Unit and Integration testing framework for improving code quality and hygiene. Made a load testing framework using locust.io to ensure that code is tested out on the scale.
  • Restructured the Ads Service Codebase from a Monolithic to a Service Oriented Architecture. Introduced Self Serve Service for Advertiser related APIs. Made a Separate Event processing architecture for Moj Events.
  • Conceptualised the architecture and design for introducing 2 new Ad Formats on ShareChat. Led the end to end development and testing for this project. This led to a significant revenue increase as it offered premium placements on the app to the advertisers.

Disney+ hotstar

Software Development Engineer II

Aug 2019Jan 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Led Bulk Ingestion of Content Metadata Architecture and implementation. This service was crucial for ingesting all DisneyPlus content for DisneyPlusHotstar Launches in India and Indonesia. This has helped to increase Content Ops efficiency by 70%.
  • Built the Architecture/design for moving from Content Metadata Multi schema to Single schema. This supported both the Internationalisation and localisation of content metadata. This framework helped to launch Hotstar in Indonesia with localised content metadata(Bahasa).
  • Responsible for driving several customer-impacting features like Skip Intro, credits and Multi DRM
  • framework.
  • Part of the IPL Readiness team which ensures load testing client facing services for scale upto 50M RPM.
  • Working on building a platform for content metadata enrichment and Video Metadata store.
  • Awarded with Rockstar Developer award for delivering high impacting projects within 6 months of joining.
  • Technologies : Java, Mysql, DynamoDB/DAX , Elastic Search, Golang, Redis, Terraform, Kafka

Makemytrip

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2018Aug 2019 · 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Working in a location store team that serves location based search results to the users. Involves tagging of the area to hotels, regions to hotels, primary area detection.
  • Individual contributor in Hotstore team that serves the best relevant content to be shown to
  • the user on the hotel detail page like best description, images, room info etc.
  • Technologies: Spring/Java, Mysql, MongoDB, Kafka, ReactJS

Sheroes

Software Engineer

Dec 2016Aug 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • SHEROES Helpline
  • o Was responsible for end to end implementation of SHEROES Helpline on Android Application.
  • o Rebuild the helpline from the scratch which included development of all the layers, from database to services to UI.
  • Feed for mobile application
  • o Worked in a team that used Apache SOLR to get feed for the mobile application.
  • o Designed and implemented micro services for setting section that included user preferences, feedback and rating.
  • Automated Push notification System
  • o Developed a push notification system which fetches data from Apache Solr and pushes notifications using GCM/FCM.
  • Technologies Used: Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Apache Solr, Couchbase, Android

Planofiesta

Summer Intern

Jun 2015Aug 2015 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Worked on beta version of Planofiesta Android Application. Responsible for implementing backend prospect of the application.

Education

Maharaja Agrasen Institute Of Technology, Delhi

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Information Technology

Jan 2012Jan 2016

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