Hitesh Das — Associate Partner
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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Media expert with strong leadership in mobile application development.
Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India
Experience: 15 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Technology Leadership
- Engineering Management
- Software Architecture
- Software Development
Career 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.
Work Experience
OLX India
Associate Director of Technology (1 yr 9 mos)
Viacom18 Media Private Limited
Senior Engineering Manager (5 mos)
OLX Autos
Principal Engineer (2 yrs 1 mo)
Zupee
Senior Engineering Manager (1 mo)
Dineout
Senior Engineering Manager (9 mos)
OLX Group
Technical Architect (1 yr 8 mos)
Times Internet
Lead Engineer (3 yrs 3 mos)
Snapdeal
Lead Engineer (2 mos)
Senior Engineer (1 yr)
Samsung Electronics
Lead Engineer (8 mos)
Senior Software Engineer (11 mos)
Software Engineer 2 (1 yr 6 mos)
IBM
Application Developer - Java (1 yr 3 mos)
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology
XII at COTTON COLLEGE STATE UNIVERSITY, Guwahati
Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology