Raghav Chandra

Co-Founder

Delhi, India13 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded Asia's largest home services platform.
Led development of geo infrastructure at Twitter.
Experience in empowering micro-entrepreneurs.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with strong backend engineering and team leadership skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Start-upsSoftware EngineeringBackend SystemsData Engineering

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSAwesomenessBig DataBootstrappingCC#Data and APIDistributed SystemsGeo dataGeo-Spatial searchGrowth EngineeringHadoopInformation Architecture

About

**We are hiring** Engineers, Product Managers, Designers and Data Scientists – drop me a ping if you'd be interested in a chat. :) Mission – “Empower millions of professionals worldwide to deliver services at home like never experienced before.” Urban Company (Formerly UrbanClap) is Asia's largest home services platform, present across India, UAE, Australia and Singapore. We help customers book reliable home services – beauty treatments, massages, plumbing, carpentry, painting, cleaning etc. Our vision is to empower millions of professionals worldwide deliver services at home like never experienced before. The company works closely with individual service professionals (ISPs) - transforming them into micro-entrepreneurs who act as its "de-facto franchisees". This is done by helping the ISPs with market access, branding, credit, insurance, training, product procurement, payments and a host of other services, while driving either all or upwards of 80% of their business. This allows the platform control fulfilment and standardize the end user experience - from pricing and deliverables, to the service delivery process and SOPs.

Experience

Urban company

Co-Founder

Jun 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Engg blog – medium.com/uc-engineering
Urban Company (Formerly UrbanClap) is Asia's largest home services platform, present across India, UAE, Australia and Singapore. We help customers book reliable home services – beauty treatments, massages, plumbing, carpentry, painting, cleaning etc. Our vision is to empower millions of professionals worldwide deliver services at home like never experienced before.
UC solves for the experience by providing the following platforms to a service professional:
1. Customer Access & Brand
Working as an individual franchisee of UC
Access to a steady stream of customer orders, forming >80% of the service professional's business, if not 100%
2. Financing & Insurance
Opening bank accounts, access to loans for upfront kits, 2-wheelers, home etc.
Life and Accidental Insurance Programs
3. Tech-Led Standardization
Standardizing the service - creating SKUs, fixed and transparent pricing, clear service deliverables, defined SOPs, delivery tracking, payment systems, reviews etc., to help remove friction from the service experience
4. Training & Certification
Soft and Core Skills Training imparted in our training centers and via the app
5. Product Procurement
Purchasing consumables (Spares, cosmetics, paints etc.) needed for service delivery in bulk
This helps service professionals become more organized, and multiplies their earnings. E.g. - Our beauticians typically earn INR 40 to 50k per month with no upper ceiling (Many earn > INR 100k per month), while in the local salons, they would earn between INR 8 to 15k per month
Hear more about what happens inside UC, its culture and ethos –
Blogs –
medium.com/uc-engineering
medium.com/uc-design
medium.com/uc-culture
Stories of our Partners –
https://www.urbancompany.com/blog/humans-of-urbanclap
Inside UC –
youtube.com/channel/UCSUHmUEQQHr3n4Rf_NHWazQ
twitter.com/inside_UC
Podcast on Android –
medium.com/androidiots (AndoIdiots by Anupam / Tushar)

Start-upsBootstrappingTeam BuildingSoftware EngineeringInformation ArchitectureMobile Technology+21

Buggi

Founder

Nov 2013 – Apr 2014 · 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Buggi was my first-crack at building a company. Biggest learnings where in knowing first hand the importance of problem-first thinking, the importance of thinking unit economics and profitability, the careful balance between demand and supply, and the importance of teams.
About:
Buggi is a dynamic peer-to-peer auto-rickshaw ride sharing platform. It aims to provide auto-at-your-doorstep service by acting as the coordinator and scheduler. Keeping the entrepreneurial spirit of auto rickshaw drivers, it follows an open marketplace model, where each driver has a choice to pick up / reject a request and simulates the real-transactional nature of this industry by allowing them to quote custom prices / bargain.

Twitter

Software Engineer

Apr 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Domain: Backend Systems, Infrastructure, Data and API; Geo data, infrastructure, tooling, analytics and API.
Lead and maintained a full-scale mature production geo infrastructure at Twitter. (JVM based 2-tier architecture using
Thrift, Finagle (RPC), Lucene, JTS spatial indexing)
Designed and architected the new set of production Geo Services (JVM). These include Reverse Geocoder, Geocoder, IP index, hydrator service, real-time location service as online services (Thrift) as well as offline libraries.
Analyzed data providers for the new Geo Services (RFP).
Created web tools as an interface to visualize and modify internal geo data.
Big Data Analysis: Hadoop analysis and visualization for product and growth metrics.
Technologies: Geo-Spatial search and indexing, Reverse-Geocoding, Geocoding, Geo Hashing, Geo data and providers, Trie search tree, Finagle (RPC), Thrift, Zookeeper Service Discovery, Hadoop Scalding/Pig analysis.
Migration of geo APIs from Rails to Scala/JVM.

Backend SystemsInfrastructureData and APIGeo dataHadoopData Engineering

Yelp, inc

Software Engineer (intern)

Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Mobile Team:
(About: Local Search and Reviews online service)
· Domain: Worked with the Mobile team on the iOS client app and the Mobile API and Logic.
Worked on multiple projects, including projects on: User Re-signup Auth. (API), Search Suggest (iOS), Localized
· Reviews based on language (API), Analytics and Testing. (All projects I worked on are live on production.)
· Deals Purchase Visualization using lights: involved connecting to live feed, sending UDP packets, use of Dimlet.
· Project Management Experience: Worked with other Project Managers on the logic and designs of a new app.
· Gave a Final Presentation on my project.

Uc berkeley

GamesCrafters, Research Group (Dr. Dan Garcia)

Sep 2010 – Nov 2010 · 2 mos

· Combinatorial and Computational game theory. Implementing, solving (strongly) and analyzing games.
· Developed a parallel loopy solver for games that allowed revisiting of states i.e. represented as a graph versus tree.

Infosys setlabs

Software Engineer (intern)

Jun 2010 – Aug 2010 · 2 mos · India

(About: Business Consulting and IT Services, SETLabs is the R&D Department)
· Requirement: To extend their Online Code-Search Tool and Modularity Assessment Tool for C# projects.
· Designed and Developed a Fact Extractor for C# language. (Use of C#, .NET Framework, MonoDevelop's libraries
and visitor pattern)
· Designed a Modularity Metrics for C# projects.
· Worked in a sub-team of 4 involving everyday interaction and briefing.
· Gave a Final Presentation on my project.

Roamware

Software Engineer (intern)

Jun 2009 – Jul 2009 · 1 mo · India

(About: Voice and Data roaming solutions)
· Gained in-depth information on the `roaming' sector of the Telecommunication domain (ss7 Protocol).
· Developed a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) module involving Java with IMAS API, Apache Tomcat
server, and PL/SQL.