Jul 2017 – Nov 2024 · 7 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Building TVLK India R & D Center in India from grounds up
• Looking after Traveloka Experience (Demand & Supply), Eats(Demand & Supply) and Platform (User, Location, Search, Recommendation, Personalization, Merchandising, UGC, Content etc )
• Hiring across all level and function: Manager/Director/Architects, want to part of the growing tech organization and take on world-class technical challenges? Please free to reach out to me at prashant.verma@traveloka.com

May 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Heading a team of 80+ engineers across app, web, backend, qa and devOps.
• Responsible for key engineering and business metrics, leading technology vision for the organization across all facets. Pivoting the platform from inventory led to a marketplace model.
• Re-Architecturing the platform with microservices for scale. Built B2C App, IoT and Car Health Integration etc, Ops Tools

Apr 2015 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Search and Merchandising Platform
• Geo Search (location based search/ranking) across millions of listing,
• NRT Ingestion in Search - 10K updates in index
• New Ranking of Listing
• In-house Sharding/Partitioning
• Merchandising Platform serving content on Home page + Flipkart offer Zone

Apr 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• As an Engineering Manager @Slideshare/LinkedIn, I am responsible for overall “Engagement”/”Biz” features (logged-in/pro account features). I am also managing backend teams for “Search & Recommendation” and “Analytics” team. While focussing on key projects across all these teams, my focus has been on improving the overall engineering deliverables, quality, cross team communications and co-ordination.
• Key deliverables includes:
• Rolling out Analytics product on Big Data Platform • Major technology upgrade with zero downtime and quality issues. Driving roadmap for search/recommendations/analytics • Data Collection Framework • Re-Ranking Layer for improving search results

Nov 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore, India

• Heading the Platform Group which aimed at enabling products across different BU on cloud, in cleanly integrated fashion, leveraging common components and framework. The group has to review the current products offering and provide strategic guidance/enablement to make these products more compelling/competitive. This involves technical evaluation of various open source platform/middleware tools like ESB, Rule Server, Massive data transfer layer, Compression database, Reporting tool, Search Engine and Analytics framework.
• agCarbon Platform – RAD Platform for various Business Units
• Centre of Excellence – Java, Database and Performance engineering.
• Working on OEM with spagoBI for Analytics Application offering.
• Reporting & Analytics Product Strategy – agHub (data warehouse), Signal Detection.
• Leading Campus Hiring Initiatives in premier engineering colleges.
• agLakshya – Part of leadership team defining the 5 years strategic roadmap for the company.

Aug 2009 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

• As Development Manager for Data Quality, I was responsible of feature delivery on two different product lines – Developer Tool (thick Eclipsed based) and Analyst Tool (thin client). I was responsible for end to end delivery of data profiling service/tools development with a team of 15 engineers across globe (Dublin, US and India).
•  Release responsibilities - has been responsible for successful release of Informatica 9.0/9.0.1/9.1 and 9.5(in progress). Planned and delivered features for more 2000 stories points across 3 releases.
•  Development responsibilities
• o Critically review the RD, HLD, FSD, Drive Ux/Architecture discussion.
• o Drive Quality and performance goal.
• o Emphasize development process and efficiency.
•  Hiring/Training/Talent Retention
• o Grew the team from 6 to 15 in last 1.5 yrs
• o Manage the team across three different geography
• o Annual review, goal setting and continuous feedback/goal setting.
•  Key Features: Column Profiling Inference (uniqueness, null, value frequency, pattern Inference), Identification of functional dependencies, Candidate Keys, Relationship Inference and Semantic/Sensitive Data Discovery.

Dec 2006 – Jul 2009 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• As VP(Engineering), I was responsible for - openQ product development/delivery, rolling out development “processes” and focusing on getting “people” on board. I was also responsible for delivery of “openQ” product lines built on Entity-Attribute-Value platfom (also known as Vertical Schema). Launched 3 products on this platform in the short span of 2 years. These were successfully deployed at Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical companies. “openQ” grew at 400% in 2007-2009.
• Products (developed from scratch): openKol Management, openPresenter, openIdentifier - Features: Flexible schema and forms, presentation data extraction and search, massive data indexing and reporting
• Responsibility/Initiatives: P & L, Customer Engagement, Delivery, Klabs – driving innovation, Hiring etc.

Jun 2005 – Dec 2006 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Age Inventory Analysis & Balance Sheet Utilization
• This is the project for PARA (Propriety Accounting & Risk Analysis Group). The project aimed at effectively tracking the balance sheet utilization. This helps the product and funding controller to identify the stale inventory in the firm and charge the traders for holding on to stale inventory.
• Key features:
•  Handling Firm to Firm trades.
•  Handling Delete/AsOf trades.
•  External & internal Reconciliation of Age Inventory.
•  Handing various Adjustments and raising appropriate exception.
•  Bucketing/Netting/Charging policy implementation.
• Challenge : Algorithmic solution of the problem
• Role : User Requirement Gathering/Design/Development/Managing the Project & team of 2.
• Technologies : Java, JUnit, XML, Mithra Framework as Database access Layer,Sybase, sql and others.
• Project : eXtreme programming – weekly iteration and test driven development

Aug 2000 – Jun 2005 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

•  Development of TMAPI Adapters - Dallas, Texas, USA & Bangalore: The i2 products adopted a new infrastructure to consolidate and rationalize their product offerings. I was given the responsibility of moving the CDM import adapters (old architecture) to TMAPI. This involved design and implementation of the whole import adapter framework. New design involved getting the data from the ODS (Operational Data Store) through JDBC, processing the data and sending it c++ engine for model creation via CORBA. On engine side we have handlers to read the data coming as corba object and create the model. To make the import faster each of the adaptors run in parallel – as separate thread and controlled by AdaptorManager. All the adaptors are also remote objects – rmi based, making the system fully distributed.
•  VRC Report for Alcatel and Huawei (Jan ’03 – Feb’ 03) - Bangalore: This view root cause report gives the user the root causes for any request not being planned by SCP. This also gives the replenishment required for all the requests that are planned late, planned short or not at all planned. Doing unconstrained JIT planning request by request generates this report.
•  Adaptors for LP solver - Bangalore: Development of adaptors for modeling the supply chain problem as linear programming problem.
•  Development of Map solver - Bangalore: MAP, Material and Asset Planner is a heuristic planning solver for SCP. The solver includes a pre-defined set of procedures for planning a supply chain. The core of the MAP planning algorithm is Order-by-Order (OBO) planning. It supports both Order-by-Order Planning and Layered Planning. .
•  CDM Adapter Transition - Dallas, Texas, USA & Bangalore: The development responsibilities for the CDM Adapters were shifted to India. I, and a colleague, carried out the transition successfully, which design and implementation of CDM Adapters.
•  Supply Chain Operating System Integration - Bangalore