Nikesh Jain

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India28 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Co-founded an innovative AI and Web 3.0 learning platform.
Scaled engineering teams from 30 to over 200 engineers.
Led product development for multiple successful cloud-based solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with a focus on educational technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

AiWeb 3.0Engineering ManagementCloud ComputingProduct DevelopmentProduct ManagementVideo TranscodingDistributed SystemsData WarehousingDatabase ManagementWeb DevelopmentContent Management

Other Skills

3D Game Based LearningAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementBig DataCLMCPQCollaborative LearningDatabasesEngineering DevelopmentHadoopJavaJava Enterprise EditionJavaScriptLearning AnalyticsLocation Based Services

About

Building Edurigo an AI and web 3.0 based learning experience platform! Making corporate, sales, product, support, academic learning fun, engaging, and measurable. Prior to Edurigo I had, - 24 years of experience in developing complex software platforms, and building top notch engineering teams at highly successful startups and world class software companies. - Worked as Vice President/Head of Engineering - India at Apttus a quote to cash start up. - Worked at Icertis a Seattle/Pune based start-up as VP Engineering and managed Icertis products on MS Azure cloud. - Worked at Ariba ( An SAP Company ) as Director of Engineering and managed engineering development for upstream (Sourcing, CLM, Spend Analysis) and downstream (Procure to Pay, Catalog) products on Ariba commerce cloud. - Worked at Yahoo! as part of their cloud platform group. Owned and managed Y!Geo and Video transcoding platform. What gives me kick - To make a difference (with huge impact) to the society in the area of education or healthcare or just anything which would make this world a better place for humanity.

Experience

Edurigo technologies

Co-Founder | CEO

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Building an AI and Web 3.0 based learning experience platform
3D Game based learning, micro learning based platform
Learning analytics like never seen before
Conversational, collaborative learning
A web 3.0 learning platform

AIWeb 3.0Learning Analytics3D Game Based LearningCollaborative Learning

Conga

Vice President/Head of Engineering, India

Sep 2017 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos · India

Responsible for managing and growing Apttus (now Conga) engineering teams located at Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Pune locations.
Responsible for managing and developing Apttus quote to cash suite of products including CPQ, CLM, Revenue Management on MS Azure and Salseforce cloud
Interfacing with delivery teams for successful customer implementations
Interfacing with support team to keep customer issues under check
Responsible for vendor negotiation and responsible for managing those relationships

Engineering ManagementCloud ComputingSalesforceMS AzureCPQCLM

Icertis inc.

VP Engineering

Jul 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Pune

Joined Icertis immediately after their Series A $6M funding (Icertis is $5B+ in valuation today)
Grew engineering team from 30 engineers to 200+ engineers
Established engineering process' and release cadence
Consolidated customer specific code bases to single code base
Improved product quality and performance many fold
Was responsible for new product ideas/initiatives/strategy
Was responsible for Partner alliance
Developed sourcing application from scratch and implemented successfully at a fortune 100 company
Scaled engineering to support fast paced start up growth

Engineering ManagementProduct Quality ImprovementTeam ScalingNew Product DevelopmentProduct Development

Ariba

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Responsible for managing development of Ariba upstream (Sourcing & Analysis) and downstream (Procure 2 Pay, Invoice Pro, Contract Management, Catalog, Category Procurement) products on Ariba commerce cloud.
Managing a 30+ engineers team located at Bangalore, Sunnyvale, and Beijing
Managing Ariba's cloud enterprise product development and delivery in an extremely fast paced environment.
Responsible for planning and releasing new product features in a monthly release cycle.

Product ManagementCloud ComputingEngineering DevelopmentRelease Planning

Development Manager

Jul 2008 – Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Managing one of Ariba's flagship Spend Management products.
Developed a data warehouse from scratch to manage multi-million records.
Very hands on with technologies such as Oracle DB, SQL, and Java.
Responsible for both development and QA of this product.

Data WarehousingOracle DBSQLJavaDatabase Management

Yahoo!

Senior Engineering Manager

Sep 2010 – Apr 2014 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Managed Y! Geo Platform.
Y! Geo Platform provides location based services to all Yahoo! properties, ad targeting, personalization services
Responsible for managing a distributed web based service handling 300+ million calls per day.
Responsible for managing a library version of service installed on 30,000 servers across Yahoo! properties
Responsible for modernizing a decade old file based editorial system that manages 9+ million world places (world geography) to a modern tech stack using Oracle Spatial with a web interface.
Managed Y! Video Transcoding Platform.
Y! Video platform is a distributed backend video transcoding system
Responsible for modernizing the platform to grid infrastructure
Responsible for improving worst case SLAs (transcoding time) in legacy system by whopping 75%
Added support for WebM format in legacy system
Managed Y! Local portal
As part of Yahoo! Marketplace group managed all local properties including local.yahoo.com

Video TranscodingLocation Based ServicesDistributed Systems

Aol india

Technical Manager

Sep 2006 – Jul 2008 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

I was responsible for development of AOL's travel portal http://travel.aol.com.
Developed from scratch destination guide portal with 20,000 guides. This product was launched in a record 6 months of time and it involved huge amount of new content procured from several vendors e.g. hotel, restaurants, city articles, reviews etc.
Converted travel.aol.com from a booking portal to a booking plus destination research portal.
Made travel.aol.com the fastest portal in its category by re-writing age old booking pages to improve look and feel and to improve load time from 17 seconds to 2.5 seconds.

Web DevelopmentContent ManagementPerformance Optimization