Rajiv Kumar N.

CTO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India25 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years in engineering leadership roles
Expert in driving agile teams and product innovation
Proven track record in user retention and growth strategies

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in SaaS and Cloud Engineering with a focus on product innovation and agile methodologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct ManagementData AnalysisAgile DevelopmentCloud ComputingProduct InnovationTechnical ArchitectureProduct DevelopmentTechnical SalesSoftware DevelopmentWorkflow Management

Other Skills

Agile Best PracticesAgile MethodologiesAnalyticsAzure Fleet CapacityBI and AnalyticsBusiness Engine DesignCloud ArchitectureCore JavaData Cleansing ToolsData IngestionE-DiscoveryFull Text SearchGrowth InitiativesGrowth StrategiesJava

About

A seasoned leader driving engineering to create products which empower enterprises and users to achieve more. - 20+ years of experience in design and development of scalable and distributed applications / products including workflow automation, rules engine, BPM, CRM, SOA, E-Discovery, EMM, Logistics, Travel, Web scale search / growth and Cloud capacity - Drive projects / products from inception to completion - Start, develop and grow agile teams - Hire, drive and mentor top talent to take on leadership roles in their teams - Technology focused and strong understanding of the product - Strong collaborator and innovator

Experience

Microsoft

Principal Engineering Manager

Jun 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Leading teams in Azure Fleet Capacity
Lead teams on growth and distribution initiatives for Microsoft Travel on Microsoft Owned and Operated canvases like Bing, MSN, Edge, Windows, Outlook among others.
Saved money, increased conversion and improved retention for users on Microsoft Travel through coupons, cashbacks and loyalty program
Influenced product decision and user recommendations through analytics for Microsoft Travel
Managed teams in the knowledge graph / concept graph areas of Bing
Active participant in Hackathon (Microsoft internal)

Azure Fleet CapacityGrowth InitiativesUser RetentionAnalyticsEngineering ManagementProduct Management

Turvo inc.

Group Engineering Manager

Feb 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Engineering Leader driving multiple agile teams in the areas of IFTTT, Collaboration, rating & routing, tracking, notifications, bulk data ingestion, BI and analytics areas of the Turvo platform
Evolve hiring process to accelerate growth
Revamp engineer onboarding process for improved productivity
Drive agile methodologies in the team to improve predictability and productivity
Work with latest technologies and microservices architecture using Snowflake DW, Spring Boot, Elastic Search, Rabbit MQ, Redis, Mongo, MySQL among others on AWS infrastructure

Agile MethodologiesMicroservices ArchitectureData IngestionBI and AnalyticsEngineering ManagementAgile Development

Mobileiron

Senior Manager Engineering

Dec 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Hyderabad Area

Handle entire product engineering at Hyderabad location
Start, develop and grow agile teams in the areas of performance, platform (CentOS, Chef, Terraform, AWS) and administration features of the MobileIron EMM platform for on-premise and cloud (SaaS)
Create micro-services from existing monolith in cloud
Improve collaboration within and across locations
Reinvigorate agile best practices for better productivity, predictability and quality
Active participant in hackathon (within MobileIron)

Performance EngineeringCloud ArchitectureAgile Best PracticesEngineering ManagementCloud Computing

Pegasystems

Senior Manager - Engineering

Jul 2009 – Dec 2016 · 7 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Start, develop and grow agile teams, across locations, in various areas of the Pega platform which includes full text search (Apache Lucene, Elastic Search), core engine, SQL generation, reporting and performance engineering
Drive innovation in the product through ideas and provide the necessary grooming and incubation to showcase them to top management
High on collaboration between all departments and also customers / partners through the company's online collaboration tool.
Winner of multiple awards in company for innovation, customer success and collaboration

Full Text SearchSQL GenerationPerformance EngineeringEngineering ManagementProduct Innovation

Innominds

Technical Architect

Jun 2007 – Jul 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Hyderabad Area

Design and develop key modules of the Clearwell Systems E-Discovery product (acquired later by Symantec) using Apache Lucene, Oracle Stellent and other technologies.
Architect and design business engine for Motorola to interface with various other modules of their Telecom provisioning solution using a messaging bus (Oracle AQ) backbone

E-DiscoveryTelecom SolutionsBusiness Engine DesignTechnical ArchitectureProduct Development

Fiorano software

Engineering Manager

Sep 2004 – Jun 2007 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Design and develop key modules of the Fiorano SOA platform like Web Services (including multiple WS-* standards), adapters to different external / legacy tools
Pre-sales technical POCs for prospective clients
Training and implementation directly with customers / through partners of the Fiorano SOA platform
Started the Hyderabad office for the company and handled its operations, hiring and growth

Web ServicesSOA PlatformPre-sales Technical POCsEngineering ManagementTechnical Sales

Ibm global services

Software Engineer

Jul 2001 – Aug 2004 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Design, implement and enhance a workflow platform using BSF and core Java (including XML based rules engine) for software asset and project management lifecycle

Workflow PlatformCore JavaXML-based Rules EngineSoftware DevelopmentWorkflow Management