Dhananjay Kumar

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 10 mos experience

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Key Highlights

17+ years in consumer-tech product engineering.
Led Aarogyasetu, optimizing for 250k rpm requests.
Founded UpFront91, a web technologies conference.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Engineering Leader in consumer-tech, specializing in scalable applications and user experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipEngineering ManagementWeb Applications

Other Skills

AJAXCSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Cloud ComputingDesign PatternsGrowth StrategiesHTMLHTML 5HTML5JSONJavaScriptMobile ApplicationsMySQLOOPObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)

About

Engineering Leader with 17+ years of experience in building consumer-tech products across OTA, Fintech, and Gaming domains. • Passionate about high-performance tech solutions, intuitive UX, dynamic UI apps, and Growth Engineering. • Volunteer Frontend Tech Lead for Aarogyasetu, the Government of India’s COVID-19 contact tracing app, optimizing it to handle requests at India scale (250k rpm) • Web Technologies Evangelist: Founded UpFront91 conference, speaker at web.dev Live, Google Chrome Immersion, with work showcased at Chrome Dev Summit, Google I/O, and Facebook F8. • Expertise in: • Building scalable, performant, and reliable applications • Technology architecture and strategy • Setting up teams and projects from the ground up • Project and stakeholder management

Experience

Makemytrip

Director of Engineering

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering LeadershipEngineering Management

Indmoney

Vice President Of Engineering

Apr 2021 – May 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Web ApplicationsGrowth StrategiesQuality AssuranceStakeholder ManagementProject ManagementMobile Applications+2

Games24x7

Director Of Engineering

Nov 2020 – Mar 2021 · 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Goibibo

3 roles

Associate Director Of Technology

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Engineering Manager

Apr 2015 – Apr 2018 · 3 yrs

Frontend architecture setup/improvement, Code standardisation/optimisation, Frontend testing framework setup, Bandwidth contextual content rendering, Team Mentoring, Data analytics,
Requirement analysis, Solution prototyping.

Technology Lead

Aug 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

Qyuki digital media

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2012 – Jul 2013 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Technical architecture of module.
Modular script loading through “Require JS”
Used Canvas for isometric images.
Used Local Storage to handle back navigation.
Responsive designing.
Event driven HTML development.
HTML5 based graph solutions.
Carousel implementation, Sprite navigation, Date-picker, Custom Form Elements, Sticky Widgets, Modal Overlay, Social Sharing/ Branding widgets.
Static assets minification, performance optimization.