Sahil Taneja

Director of Engineering

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands11 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led migration of 300+ microservices to AWS.
Improved order conversions by ~10% through personalized recommendations.
Developed global invoicing system supporting 19 countries.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AdTech expert with extensive experience in engineering leadership and scalable systems.

Contact

sahiltaneja15@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon DynamoDBAmazon EC2Amazon SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)CC++CSSCross-functional Team LeadershipData StructuresDistributed SystemsEclipseHTMLJava

About

A result-oriented and metric-driven engineering leader with 5+ years of leading high-performing engineering teams. Proven track record of strategizing and executing yearly roadmaps spanning distributed and scalable architectures, buy and sell-side products, and machine learning algorithms. In my career of 9+ years, I had the opportunity to work with tech giants(Amazon), scale-ups(OYO), early-stage startups(Housing.com, Taskbob), and my co-founded startup. I also had the opportunity to lead highly cross-functional org-wide initiatives like migrating end-to-end tech stack of 300+ microservices from Ali Cloud to AWS, breaking monolithic systems into microservices, designing low-latency and highly-available distributed systems, and building machine learning models. My expertise lies in strategic planning, hiring and growing highly efficient teams, building cost-effective large-scale distributed systems, product management, program management, and project management.

Experience

Reddit, inc.

Engineering Manager

May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · On-site

Building the Ads ML platform to empower ads ML models, driving value for our customers, advertisers, and Reddit.

Oyo

6 roles

Director of Engineering, Search & Personalisation

Jul 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

Led a 30+ member team of EMs, TPMs, SDEs, and ML engineers to ease the discovery of properties and locations for OYO’s guests by providing personalized recommendations
Strategy, planning, and execution of Search and Ranking roadmap improving order conversions and realizations by ~10%
Designed a framework for an experimentation platform to explore new personalization ideas with minimum effort
Explored cutting-edge technologies like edge computing to provide hyper-personalized recommendations on our guest app
Proposed and implemented ML Ops frameworks in OYO to reduce time to deploy machine learning models in production and to save MLEs bandwidth

Director of Engineering, China Relaunch Tech

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Aug 2021 · 7 mos

Led a team of 70+ engineers across the technology organization to migrate the existing end-to-end technology stack of 300+ microservices from Ali Cloud to AWS in China
Worked directly with CXOs to improve the bottom line and deployed a scalable solution to empower thousands of hotel partners
Prepared execution strategy and roadmap for highly cross-functional teams

Director Of Engineering, Finance Tech

Promoted

Jul 2020 – Jan 2021 · 6 mos

Grew team from ~30 to 40 members with EMs, PMs, and SDEs
Built owner visibility and reporting systems to improve NPS by over 50%
Built and executed a roadmap to reduce infrastructure costs by over 80%

Senior Engineering Manager, Finance Tech

Jan 2020 – Jul 2020 · 6 mos

Grew the team from 16 to 28 SDEs, EMs and PMs
Built automation tools to manage finance workflows to support OYO’s explosive growth
Executed Oracle implementation as an ERP in record time

Engineering Manager, Finance Tech

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

Grew team from 4 to 16 SDEs and PMs
Built a global invoicing and taxation system for OYO, extending support for 19 countries
Improved the stability of accounting services, improving the transaction fallouts by >95%
Improved availability of ERP machines from 40% to >90%

SDE 2, Finance Tech

Oct 2017 – Dec 2017 · 2 mos

Re-designed reconciliation service to support international markets
Re-architected payment services to improve payout TAT from 6 hours to 15 minutes

Madx

Co-Founder

Oct 2016 – Jun 2017 · 8 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Spearheaded product and technology of AdNetwork focused on advertisement solutions across search feeds, in-image, and rich media formats.

Taskbob

2 roles

Backend Lead

Promoted

Jan 2016 – Oct 2016 · 9 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Led a team of 5 developers and redesigned the complete backend architecture to handle
Taskbob’s growing scale.

Lead Developer

Jul 2015 – Dec 2015 · 5 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Worked closely with the Operations team to automate demand and supply match of servicemen and task requests. This led to a reduction in the required number of operational executives from 30+
to under 10.

Housing.com

Software Developer

Dec 2014 – Jun 2015 · 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Developed Buy service from scratch for searching, filtering, and displaying listings of upcoming projects and individual houses powered by ElasticSearch and ROR.
Worked closely with the Machine Learning team to improve the relevance of search results.

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

Worked as a part of amazon payments platform to make payments fast and reliable.

Netdeals us inc

Software Engineer, Intern

Jun 2012 – Jul 2012 · 1 mo

Worked on Frontend and Backend of an E-commerce website.
Worked on writing automated scripts to fetch data from different sources such as Groupon, living
social, etc.