Hitesh Das

Associate Partner

Gurugram, Haryana, India15 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years of experience in digital product development.
  • Expert in leading cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Proven track record in optimizing SEO and ad sales.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Media expert with strong leadership in mobile application development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipEngineering ManagementSoftware ArchitectureSoftware Development

Other Skills

AdSalesAgile Application DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAnalytical SkillsAnalyticsAndroid DevelopmentAndroid SDKArchitectureB2CBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Clean ArchitectureCoachingCommunicationCustomer ExperienceDesign Patterns

About

15+ years of experience in building and scaling digital products, I currently lead a high-impact, cross-functional team at OLX India, comprising Frontend, Backend, Mobile, and QA engineers. My core focus lies in driving product and platform excellence across key verticals—SEO, Ad Sales, Trust & Safety, Platform Vitals, and several new strategic initiatives shaping the future of OLX India. At OLX India, I work at the intersection of technology, growth, and trust, leveraging modern engineering practices and a robust tech stack that includes Kotlin, Java, Swift/Swift UI, Spring Boot, React, Node.js, Android (Native + Compose), AWS + EKS-based microservices and many more (https://tech.olx.in/tech-stack/). My team is passionate about delivering reliable, performant, and scalable solutions while collaborating closely with product, data, and business stakeholders to ensure impact. Whether it's optimizing SEO to increase visibility, enhancing our ads platform for monetization, safeguarding users with Trust & Safety systems, or improving core platform vitals like performance and reliability—I enjoy solving complex engineering problems that matter at scale.

Experience

Olx india

Associate Director of Technology

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Leading the Platform Team at OLX India.
  • My KRA includes:
  • 1. Platform Core: Initiate and lead the development of reliable, scalable, and low-latency platform capabilities for all services. Integrate new and cost effective tools and technologies in development to foster developer productivity and reduced time to market.
  • 2. SEO Performance: Optimize technical SEO to improve search rankings and traffic.
  • 3. Ad Sales Enablement: Develop tools to support revenue growth through better ad targeting and analytics.
  • 4. New initiatives.
  • Last but not the least,
  • 5. Team Leadership & Stakeholder management: Mentor teams and collaborate across departments (PDT and Business and Customer Experience) to achieve business goals.
Stakeholder ManagementCustomer ExperienceTechnical Staff ManagementPeople ManagementSoftware Development MethodologiesMobile Application Development+10

Viacom18 media private limited

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2024Jun 2024 · 5 mos · Gurugram

  • JIO CINEMA App - Led Android TV Discovery Team. As the Lead of the Android TV Discovery Team, I drove the development and optimization of user-centric content discovery experiences on Android TV. My responsibilities included overseeing feature design, implementation, and performance enhancements, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and a superior user experience. I leveraged my extensive expertise in software engineering and technical leadership to innovate and elevate the Android TV platform.
Stakeholder ManagementLeadershipSoftware ArchitectureAgile MethodologiesSoftware Development MethodologiesTeamwork+15

Olx autos

Principal Engineer

Dec 2021Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India - (Remote)

  • Driving technical development and delivery of mobile applications (Swift on iOS, Kotlin on Android) to consumers
  • Mentor and grow engineers within the Teams
  • Provide technical leadership in the evaluation, conceptualization, design, and development of major new capabilities in both platforms.
  • Provide strong technical expertise in application architecture, with a strong vision to component reuse throughout OLX with standardization.
  • Drive for continuous improvement in performance, scalability, extensibility, reliability, usability, and availability of the platform.
  • Explore and share new developments in the mobile app space.
Stakeholder ManagementLow-Level DesignLeadershipSoftware ArchitectureB2CAgile Methodologies+21

Zupee

Senior Engineering Manager

Nov 2021Dec 2021 · 1 mo · Gurgaon - Remote

  • Manage and mentor a team of Android/Unity devs across different key projects and new initiatives.
Stakeholder ManagementLow-Level DesignLeadershipSoftware ArchitectureAgile MethodologiesSoftware Development Methodologies+20

Dineout

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2021Nov 2021 · 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Worked with TIL - Central Mobile Team on platform projects/initiatives and with the Dineout B2B and B2C teams for Mobile Apps development and architecture (Android/iOS)
  • Led a team of 15 Mobile Developers(Android and iOS). Manage, mentor developers and work together towards Business and Technical OKRs. The role involved collaboration with the B2C and B2B App’s EM, Product, Design and QA teams across deliverables. This apart, involvement in code reviews and ensure best practices in agile/scrum methodology of development.
Stakeholder ManagementLow-Level DesignLeadershipSoftware ArchitectureB2CAgile Methodologies+24

Olx group

Technical Architect

Jun 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

  • Led the Android guild at OLX India, and contributed to a team of Android Developers; Mentored and managed to work together to create an environment of curiosity, encouragement, and technical growth. Collaborated with the Product and Design teams to Establish, Architect and Deliver solutions and making customers happy with technology.
Stakeholder ManagementLow-Level DesignLeadershipSoftware ArchitectureAgile MethodologiesSoftware Development Methodologies+18

Times internet

Lead Engineer

Feb 2016May 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Noida India

  • Led and developed projects viz. NewsPoint Loyalty (Times point) Project, NewsPoint ePaper Project. Haptik (Chatbot) and Appsflyer integration. Video Ads and Live TV Project (IMA SDK),Times's in-house analytics SDK viz. "Coke a.k.a GrowthRx" for capturing app analytics and targetting.
Stakeholder ManagementLow-Level DesignLeadershipSoftware ArchitectureSoftware Development MethodologiesTeamwork+17

Snapdeal

2 roles

Lead Engineer

Dec 2015Feb 2016 · 2 mos

  • Led and mentored a team of android engineers. Worked on MyOrders/Item Details/Category Selection in Snapdeal consumer app. Led the team for Android FreeCharge Integration project.
Stakeholder ManagementLow-Level DesignLeadershipSoftware ArchitectureSoftware Development MethodologiesTeamwork+17

Senior Engineer

Dec 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr

Stakeholder ManagementLow-Level DesignLeadershipSoftware ArchitectureSoftware Development MethodologiesTeamwork+17

Samsung electronics

3 roles

Lead Engineer

Apr 2014Dec 2014 · 8 mos

  • Android mobile apps (SPlanner, Contacts, Memo)
  • Overseas development and support in South Korea for Galaxy Mobile projects. Developed features and applications in Samsung Organiser applications (Calendar, S Planner, Clock, Memo). Onsite project on Location Reminder/Expense Tracker Project for Samsung HQ (South Korea) for Galaxy/Note Series. Led and mentored a team of 8 engineers
Stakeholder ManagementLow-Level DesignLeadershipSoftware Development MethodologiesTeamworkTeam Management+12

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2013Mar 2014 · 11 mos

Low-Level DesignSoftware Development MethodologiesTeamworkUser Experience (UX)Public SpeakingEngineering+6

Software Engineer 2

Sep 2011Mar 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

Low-Level DesignSoftware Development MethodologiesTeamworkUser Experience (UX)Public SpeakingEngineering+6

Ibm

Application Developer - Java

Jun 2010Sep 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos · Noida India

  • Joined IBM as campus hire as a Java Application Developer. Worked on Netcool Application for auto monitoring of network devices.
Low-Level DesignSoftware Development MethodologiesTeamworkUser Experience (UX)Public SpeakingEngineering+4

Education

Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2006Jan 2010

COTTON COLLEGE STATE UNIVERSITY, Guwahati

XII — Physics Chemistry Maths

Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science and Engineering

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