Mohan Kumar Pandian — CTO
A tech leader with 21+ years of experience on various distributed platforms & technologies with startups and product companies including POP, Databricks, DealShare, Flipkart, WhistleTalk (Social media based recruiting Startup - co founding team member), Citrix (NetScaler) & Lucent. • > 10 years of eCommerce experience in B2C & B2B segments on entire shopping and fulfilment systems with scale and innovation • ~12 years of rich experience in distributed online consumer facing applications/services • Built 4-5 full fledged products entirely from scratch with very lean teams in different companies • Built multiDC, hybrid, cloud native applications with first principles • Broke monoliths into micro services quite a few times • Providing technology roadmap/strategy to leadership/CXOs • Strong experience in solving and maintaining NFRs around availability, resiliency, scalability, performance, latency, security, maintainability, agility etc • Solved for a very high scale of a few million requests per second (QPS/RPS) at ultra low latency of sub 100 ms at P90th. • Good experience in leading team through full product cycle (requirements, design, development, deployment) using agile methodology as well as in end-to-end product development (client to DB) • Proven record of being a good team player, setting up stage for juniors, mentoring and growing them in their career ladder. • OSS Contributor! Specialties: Architecting, Designing distributed systems, Product Development (Java), converting fuzzy business/product problems into tech blueprint of distributed systems, platformisation, solving for HLD, LLD and executing with the team. Owning production at 4 9s uptime, total cost optimisation etc. Scale expert. Immense experience in NFRs including availability, resiliency, performance for FK scale. Distributed multi DC applications specialist. Databases (Relation & NoSQL) and other technologies: HBase, Elastic Search, Redis, MongoDB, Aerospike, MySQL, Kafka, Zookeeper, Spark, Storm, Kubernetes, Cloud Native, CI/CD, AWS, GCP, Spring Boot, Vertx, Micronaut, Dropwizard, Fibers/Quasar, Mage.AI, Redshift, Superset, Redash etc Web Application (Java, Node JS, Perl, PHP, JS, HTTP, REST, JSON, HTML, CSS) Web Application Security Expertise Mobile Application (Android, IOS apps using Titanium) Networking domain GUI Design & Development
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce architect with extensive experience in distributed systems and cloud technologies.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 21 yrs 6 mos
Skills
- Tech Strategy/roadmap
- Data Engineering
- Distributed Systems
- Web Applications
Career Highlights
- 21+ years of experience in tech leadership.
- Expert in building scalable distributed systems.
- Proven track record in eCommerce and cloud-native applications.
Work Experience
POP
Tech Leader (6 mos)
Databricks
Senior Staff Software Engineer (5 mos)
DealShare
Senior Principal Architect (2 yrs 10 mos)
Flipkart
Senior Architect (2 yrs 4 mos)
Architect (2 yrs 6 mos)
Software Development Engineer IV (2 yrs 9 mos)
WhistleTalk
Architect (2 yrs 3 mos)
Citrix Systems
Senior Software Engineer (4 yrs 10 mos)
Alcatel-Lucent
Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs 8 mos)
HCL Technologies
Software Engineer (5 mos)
Education
B.E at College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai
H.S.C at St.John Bosco Matric Hr. Sec. School