Suyash Ahuja

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 1 mo experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led a team of 10 engineers at Eightfold AI.
  • Managed high-performance systems with 0.1M rpm traffic.
  • Developed scalable cloud-based solutions at Google.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Backend Engineer with extensive experience in cloud computing and distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsTeam ManagementCloud ComputingBackend DevelopmentNatural Language ProcessingSoftware Development

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Audio ProcessingCC++CSSCode ReviewData StructuresEclipseFocal PointGNU OctaveHTMLHadoopJava

About

Engineering Manager at Eightfold AI, leading the Talent Acquisition team—our flagship product that powers intelligent hiring for global enterprises. I manage a team of ~10 engineers, focused on delivering scalable, impactful solutions. Previously at Navi, I led the Rewards and Referral Platform, managing a 15+ member cross-functional team. Before that, I built cloud-based Big Data platforms at Google and Qubole. I hold a B.E. in Computer Science from BITS Pilani and have 10+ years of experience in building platforms, leading teams, and solving hard problems at scale.

Experience

Eightfold

Engineering Leader

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Navi

Software Engineering Manager

Jan 2023Aug 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Led a 15+ member team at Navi Technologies, overseeing backend, UI, and mobile engineers for business growth initiatives.
  • Developed long-term investments like Navi coins, User personalization platform, and Leaderboard platform.
  • Ensured operational excellence with high QPS, low latency systems supporting peak traffic volume of ~0.1M rpm.
  • Mentored engineers across levels, and helped them grow into leadership.
Distributed SystemsRequirements AnalysisFocal PointNoSQLSprint PlanningTeam Leadership+2

Google

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2020Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Part of GCP cloud data fusion.
  • Contributed to open source CDAP - https://github.com/cdapio/cdap/commits/develop/?author=suyashahuja02
  • Contributed to horizontals programs for experimentations, fault tolerance and resilient to physical disasters.
  • Contributed to increasing scalability of concurrently launching pipelines by 4x and running pipelines by about 3x, without increasing hardware.
Distributed SystemsRequirements AnalysisNoSQLCloud Computing

Qubole

Member Of Technical Staff III

Jul 2018Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Qubole is a young company in the big data space. It provides cloud-based big data solutions to enterprises.
  • I work primarily in the Saas space in Qubole, which involves building and scaling web-services, cloud integrations, and platform monitoring.
  • PFB some of the details on my role
  • Lead Backend Engineer(Backend + data) in Qubole’s control plane in a team of 6-7 people.
  • Worked extensively on Qubole’s strategic integration with GCP as a cloud partner, which helped in onboarding 30+ new logos.
  • E2E ownership of an online archival effort from transactional DB to Analytical systems.
  • This will bring down the DB size by 75%, thereby optimizing indexes and enabling migrations.
  • The archival falls in the critical path of qubole's business and therefore had constraints around system availability, online migration, fail-safe and phased rollouts.
  • Responsibility spanning across design, development, execution, fallback and security.
  • Led a cross-team effort of migrating qubole's entire control plane from rails 4.2 to rails 5.2.
  • The codebase spans across 16k code files and comprises more than 90% of Qubole’s application.
  • Responsibility spanning across development, tooling, certification, rollout, fallback, and security.
Distributed SystemsRequirements AnalysisAmazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud Computing

Flipkart

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2016Jul 2018 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Backend Development Engineer for the supply chain team and Jeeves(Post delivery experience)
  • Developed and owned billing systems for Jeeves. The billing system caters to about 50 franchises and generated bills on the order of INR 1Cr+/month.
  • Gained experience in Service Oriented Architecture in a service mesh of about 17 microservices.
  • Framework - Java dropwizard.
Code ReviewDistributed SystemsNoSQLBackend Development

Amazon

Software Development Intern

Jan 2016Jun 2016 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked for Associates program in Amazon. The focus of my team is to build software that drives traffic to all Amazon websites across the globe.
  • My work involved developing an Internal tool for configuration changes. PFB objectives
  • Reduce turnaround time for configuration changes from a maximum of 1 Month to 2 hours, vastly improving end customer experience. This was accomplished by simplifying the current architecture of the system.
  • The configurations were consumed by API's which scale upto 20000 QPS and drive about 8% of Amazon's revenue
  • Provide a UI for business owners/external teams to raise/confirm requests based on access levels
  • Design choices to make the tool generic, reliable, extensible(for more configurations), low latency(for end systems) and fault tolerant
  • Technologies used - System design, Java Spring, MySql ,Data Warehouse, UI development,

Edgeverve

Research Internship

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked under Product Incubation Team.
  • Developed from scratch an IVR crawler that calls and understands IVR structure and creates an offline view of the same
  • The offline view can then be leverage by apps built on top of IVR.
  • Uses the concepts of Audio Processing and Natural Language Processing in the core engine.
  • The solution was then sold to enterprises who were IVR only at that moment.
  • Tools used - Apache OpenNLP, Rule Engine(drools), Stanford NLP (researched)
  • Technology Stack - Java(backend), HTML, CSS

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science

Delhi Public School, Azaad Nagar, Kanpur

Intermediate — Science

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