Sanjay Dhakar

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Built a low code platform enhancing SDLC efficiency by 40%
Led a team deploying 100+ experiments with significant revenue impact
Revamped critical services for high query handling during peak sales

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce engineering leader with a strong focus on growth and scalability.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementScalabilityGrowth HackingLow-code Development PlatformsA/b Testing

Other Skills

CC++Computer VisionEmbedded SystemsJavaJavaScriptMySQLOperations ManagementProduct led GrowthProgrammingProject ManagementRoboticsSoftware DevelopmentStrutsTeam Management

Experience

Flipkart

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

ScalabilityLow-Code Development PlatformsA/B TestingEngineering Management

Senior Engineering Manager

May 2020 – Sep 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Low Code Platform:
Built a low code platform to change FK’s SDLC and bring in 40% efficiency and agility.
Allows for efficient modification of widget/page appearance, user interaction, and data mapping, enabling swift experimentation and quick validation or invalidation of solutions.
Build experiences without any code change, deployment with performance benefits.
Single code base and platform to power experience across Mobile apps, msite & Desktop.
AB Platform:
Leading the AB platform to solve for speed, accuracy, cost, capability and competency of experimentation and Flipkart.
Having in-depth understanding of AB requirements and usecass for Flipkart, evaluated Statsig to ensure its the right platform for our needs.
Driving AB experimentation accuracy and trustworthiness through AB best practices and SOPs.
Through AB council, ensured uniform enforcement of experimentation policies to develop the right experimentation culture at Flipkart.
Mobile API Gateway & Core services:
Leads multiple critical services in user path for FK for app experience.
Invested in revamping critical services like Session, API Gateway.
Built scalable service to to handle festive sale scale of 1M queries per second smoothly.
Growth Hack Team:
Scaled up Growth hack charter, built a strong team of 25+ engineers and robust processes to collaborate with 15+ shopping experience teams. GH required developing a growth mindset in the team - having better ownership and proactiveness, developing understanding of data/metrics and being excited about impact.

Low-Code Development PlatformsScalabilityA/B TestingGrowth HackingProduct led Growth

Myntra jabong

Associate Director Engineering

May 2018 – May 2020 · 2 yrs · Greater Bengaluru Area

Head of Engineering for Growth Hacking team
Hired and built a one of a kind cross-functional team of 25+ engineers with 2 Tech Leads and one EM for end-to-end feature development across Myntra Storefront systems.
Developed expertise within the team across all tech stacks involving React native, React, NodeJS, Java, and Golang. Resulted in reducing external dependencies and fast-paced development.
Deployed 100+ experiments with 25% success rate. Experiments resulted in incremental revenue of 8.5% and 11%
from existing traffic in the first and second year respectively.
Worked with the product and analytics team for experiment ideation, PRD grooming, feasibility check, and experiment
outcome analysis.

Growth HackingProduct led GrowthEngineering Management

Jugnoo

VP Engineering

Mar 2016 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India

Product
Launched Meals, Grocery and B2B deliveries to utilise existing supply infrastructure; Meals grew to 500 orders a day in 6 months; B2B deliveries – currently doing 13000 deliveries a day in 15 cities.
Instrumental in reducing the transactional burn per ride in the backdrop of intense competition from Uber and Ola. Some product side innovations included enabling captive supply, optimising allocation algorithm, putting fraud detection systems in place and user segmentation based discounting.
Built business tools to empower merchants on the platform – order management, real time chat with the customers, advertise on the platform, customer outreach.
Engineering
Redesigned the app from an MVP monolith to micro-services architecture – decoupling authentication and payment, invoicing, rides, delivery, analytics, external integration services.
Bootstrapped the digital marketing platform leveraging the Big Data warehouse; being used as an internal marketing infrastructure for user communication via email, SMS, push and in-app notifications.
Achieved high system availability with zero downtime by implementing load balancing and automated failover at both application and database level.
Optimised AWS cloud infra by analysing server usage patterns, leading to 30% reduction in AWS expenditure.
Set up an open source ERP for order management, inventory, HR, finance and CRM function companywide.
Data Platform
Built a real time analytics platform using BigQuery as data warehouse and implementing ETL packages to load data from various sources.
Automated fraud detection in the system by flagging bad drivers; reduced cheating cases by 90%.
Infused historical data into the pickup location algorithm; pickup location error went down from 42% to 26% of rides.
Increased fulfillment by 10% by optimizing the ride allocation algorithm.

Tookan

Co-founder & CTO

Jan 2015 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

Co-founded Tookan at Click Labs - a generic field workforce management SaaS platform for small and medium businesses.
Launched MVP within a month with a 5 member team and was able to achieve product market fit within 3 months. Led product, engineering, sales and marketing for initial 6 months.
Grew Tookan to 100 active businesses doing 5000+ transactions per day in 6 months. Currently platform does 50K+ transactions a day across 100+ countries.

Click labs

Co-founder & CTO

Feb 2013 – Mar 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India

Spearheaded delivery of 100+ mobile products spanning healthcare, transportation, food and logistics industry
Grew tech team from 50 people to 120+ people; top line increased from $1M to $4M in a span of 2 years.
Gave the business a competitive edge by spearheading migration from LAMP stack to MEAN stack.
Focussed on operational efficiencies by conceptualising code modularity and reuse of IP; timelines for typical engagements reduced by 40%.

Bankbazaar.com

Software Development Engineer

Jun 2011 – Feb 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore, India

Built BankBazaar’s online credit card application platform as a new product offering which currently powers HDFC bank, Axis Bank and ICICI Bank’s credit card websites.
Architected and developed mobile responsive version of BankBazaar’s website.
Developed application tracking and customer escalation management system.