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Venkatesh Purushothaman

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India28 yrs 7 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led the development of an AI-powered travel platform.
  • Managed global engineering teams across multiple countries.
  • Expert in building scalable eCommerce solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Travel Technology and eCommerce with a strong focus on AI and scalability.

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Skills

Core Skills

Travel TechnologyArtificial Intelligence (ai)Global E-commerceChatbot DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipPayment SystemsFintechWeb ApplicationsE-commerceSoftware As A Service (saas)Global Delivery

Other Skills

AI/MLAPI DevelopmentAWSAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSAuthentication SystemsBusiness ProcessBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Change ManagementCountry LeadershipCross-platform DevelopmentCross-team CollaborationDashboard Metrics

About

Spearheading the development of a cutting-edge AI-powered Travel Platform from the ground up (0 to 1) @Serko.com India GCC Join us in shaping the future of travel technology and be part of our dynamic team in Bangalore. https://apply.workable.com/serko-ltd/#jobs

Experience

28 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Serko

Director of Engineering

Aug 2025Present · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Leading & Building 0 to 1 Nextgen Travel Platform From Scratch @ Serko.com India GCC
  • I'm hiring and submit your CV here https://apply.workable.com/serko-ltd/#jobs
Travel TechnologyArtificial Intelligence (AI)mcpREST

Eventbrite

Director of Engineering

Jul 2023Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · India · Remote

  • Engineering Leader for eCommerce online Ticketing Marketplace Platform
  • Leading Core Marketplaces Services Group
  • Authentication, Authorization, Risk & Fraud, MarTech, CRM Contact Center, Mobile Apps, Privacy PII GDPR Compliance
  • TP99 Authentication Platform serving over Billion Requests Per Day
  • Marketing Flow Automation using MarTech platform
  • PII Data Protection & Global Compliance
  • AI Chatbot Driven CX CRM Contact Center Software
  • 24x7x365 TP99 Reliable, Available and Scalable systems
  • India GCC Site engineering leadership
  • Strategical Planning, Defining KRAs, OKRs and Iterative Delivery milestones
  • Global Stakeholders and Global Customer mindset
  • AWS, Python/DJango, Nomad, NodeJS, Memcache, Snowflake, Auth0, OAuth, React JS
  • Domain Driven REST API
  • Real Time Anomaly Deductions and Engineering Operation Excellence
  • Web and Mobile App, Full Stack Ownership
  • Hiring, Retention, & Performance Management with 100% Remote Teams
  • Site Incident Management & Customer Escalation Resolution
  • Buy vs Build Decisions
  • Internal and External App integration
  • Datadog, AWS Cloudwatch, HEAP based data analytics for improved customer experience
  • A/B testing with Split.io, Statsig instrumentation for scientific and effective ROI decision making
Global E-CommerceGlobal DeliveryCountry LeadershipChatbot DevelopmentAuthentication SystemsVirtual Teams+7

Expedia group

Director, Software Engineering

Dec 2018Jul 2023 · 4 yrs 7 mos · India · Hybrid

  • Building scalable 2-Way Reviews platform product for Expedia Marketplaces
  • OTA Online Travel Aggregator | Travel eCommerce | Online Booking
  • Hired and Lead Global engineering teams across India, Poland, Ukraine, Spain, Jordan, Argentina, Peru, & USA
  • UGC User Generated Content Text & Images
  • Helping Hotel & Travel Partners and Suppliers to identify potential CX Customer Experience issue and bottlenecks with the help of AI/ML models
  • Personalized suggestions & helping customers to select the right products and services that suits their interests and preferences
  • Self-Scalable, Reliable, Low Latency, Distributed & 24x7x365 Available eCommerce Tier-1 system
  • Multi Hat Role - Engineering, Product, & Program
  • AWS, Elastic Search, Cassandra, ETL Data Transformation
  • Industry first LGBTQ+ Friendly & Trustable Reviews System
  • Engineering OPEX & CAPEX Budget Management
  • FTE & Vendor Hiring, Vendor Budget Management
  • Lead the successful Global team among the worst Covid-19 period
  • Lead Vrbo.com (Competitor for AirBnb.com) Price intelligence and Data Discovery platform to stay ahead of the competition
  • Processing of over 45Million+ Asynchronous Data events at Vrbo
  • Strategical (12+ Months) and Short term (90 Days) Planning and Execution
  • India Geo Level Initiatives Leadership - Tech and Non-Tech Tracks across Expedia India (1500+ employees)
  • Consolidation & Integrating various Expedia Group sites with core Expedia's tech platform for improved effectiveness & reduced cost of ownership
  • Cloud Engineering & On-Prem to AWS Cloud Transformation
  • AWS Cloud Cost Optimization
  • https://developers.expediagroup.com/docs/products/rapid/lodging/content/guest-reviews
  • https://www.expedia.com/things-to-do/disneyland-resort-tickets.a181752.activity-details?endDate=2025-07-06&jumpTargetTab=&location=Anaheim%20Resort%2C%20Anaheim%2C%20California%2C%20United%20States%20of%20America&rid=553248635074843122&startDate=2025-06-22
  • Java, Kotlin, Scala, AI/ML, Kafka, ETA, S3
Product DevelopmentGlobal E-CommerceTechnical LeadershipPlatform as a Service (PAAS)API DevelopmentGlobal Delivery+7

Innoviti payment solutions pvt ltd

Head of Engineering - Retail PoS FinTech Payment Solutions at Innoviti.com

Dec 2017Dec 2018 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Built Retail Payment POS Solution at scale for India based SME/SMB segment business partners.
  • PCI Standard payment software development and Real Time B2B Merchant Onboarding
  • Retail POS Integration
JavaScriptProduct DevelopmentPayment SystemsFinTechInformation TechnologySoftware Development+3

Savaari car rentals

Head of Engineering at Savaari.com - Travel eCommerce Marketplace Startup

May 2015Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • As Vice President & Head of Engineering, I was responsible for creating Full Stack Software for Savaari.com
  • Web Development, Android App Development, Internal and External Facing Applications, REST APIs, External Integrations, Real Time Billing Systems
  • Budget planning and P&L Management
  • Infra management & Dev Ops
JavaScriptLAMPStart-upsTechnical LeadershipAngularJSRESTful WebServices+1

Ebay enterprise

Senior Engineering Manager at eBayEnterprsie.com - GSI eCommerce White label Webstore for B2B2C

Feb 2014Apr 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Building & Setting up a eBay Enterprise (GSI eCommerce) Bangalore (India) Team from scratch.
  • Building World Class White Label Webstore eCommerce B2B2C products that are being used by Fortune 500 Merchants worldwide.
  • eBay Enterprise India Transformation
JavaScriptE-CommerceWarehouse Management SystemsGlobal E-CommerceTechnical LeadershipBusiness-to-Business (B2B)+3

Paypal

Senior Development Manager at Paypal.com - B2B Merchant Onboarding at Scale using Microservices

Jun 2011Feb 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore · On-site

  • B2B Merchant Partner focussed Software Product Development
  • Product and Engineering Vision
  • Project / Program Execution
  • People Management
  • Setting up a brand new team @ Bangalore, India
  • Providing Global Onboarding experience to Paypal's Merchant and Partners
  • External Partner facing API Development (Softbank & Discover Cards)
  • Adaptive Accounts and Adaptive Payments REST API Implementation and integration
Paypal IntegrationMerchant AcquiringFinTechGlobal E-CommercePayment IndustryDashboard Metrics+3

Iron mountain

Senior Development Manager at Connected.com IronMountain Digital

Dec 2009May 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Offshore Team setup, Software Design and Development, Project Management
  • SAAS based Online Backup Cloud Platform product development
Software as a Service (SaaS)Large Scale DeploymentsPeople ManagementCross-team CollaborationCross-platform DevelopmentGlobal Delivery

Emc

Manager, Software Engineering at Dell-EMC-Documentum-OpenText

Aug 2004Dec 2009 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Manager, Software Engineering
  • Responsible for Documentum.com Content Server Product Development
  • API SDK Development
  • Third Party Integration
  • xPlatform, xOS Prod Development
Global Delivery

Sun microsystems

Member Technical Staff at Sun.com for iPlant Email Server

Oct 2000Aug 2004 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • RFC Product Development Sun ONE / iPlanet eMail / Messaging Server
  • iPlanet Delegated Administrator
  • xOS xDB Product Development
Global Delivery

Honeywell

Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell Aerospace

Sep 1997Oct 2000 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Embedded Display Systems used in Cockpits of various Ratheon, Air Bus and Boeing Commercial Airliners.
  • Crucial unit of FMS Flight Management System
Global Delivery

Education

Bangalore Management Academy

MBA — General

Jan 2009Jan 2011

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Executive Management — Executive Management

PSG College of Technology

Bachelor's degree — Engineering

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