Puneet Jain

Director of Engineering

Delhi, India19 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 16 years of experience in technology leadership
  • Expert in debugging and optimizing large scale applications
  • Founder of HelpZindagi Foundation
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned technology leader in the AdTech and virtualization sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

AdserverWebserverCUnix Internals

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsC++Core JavaData CenterDebuggingDistributed SystemsHardwareLinuxNetworkingPartnerCacheServerRobot detectionShell ScriptingSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

About

* Technology leader with 16 years of hands-on experience in building products and high performance teams. * Founder of HelpZindagi Foundation (NGO) (https://helpZindagi.org) * Author of a book on Solaris Operating System, published world-wide by Pearson Education. * Patent (Docket B164.ID) in the field for "Datacenter Virtualizaiton". * Having strong exposure to "Digital Advertising Domain". * Hands-on experience in architecting and implementing high performance Webserver & AdServer modules. * Good understanding of Click-Fraud/Impression-Fraud and ways to detect. * An expert in debugging and optimising large scale applications. * Strong exposure to Operating Systems and Computer Architecture * Extensive programming using C, on Unix (Solaris/Linux) platforms. Specialties: * C, Perl, Unix (Solaris and Linux), Computer Architecture, Unix Internals, Data Structures and Algorithms, Threads, Fibers, Memory Managers. * Having strong exposure to Networking Virtualization concepts. * Branch topper and Engineering Gold Medalist. * Best student of Karnataka Award from ISTE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~***~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Currently responsible for the main adServing modules at Exponential (AdServer, WebServer, PartnerCacheServer, UserCacheServer and other caches). But area of development and contribution does not limit to just these mentioned above. Involved in the entire eco system of AdTech at Exponential in researching, writing specifications, developing, leading teams and people management. Working on very advanced concepts like our own custom "threads, fibers & memory managers" in C to gain the unmatched application performance. Have daily hands on with writing specifications and code. One of the very few individuals at Exponential having understanding & impact on each and every product, team and processes across. Also part of India Management Team @ Exponential. This team is responsible for managing and deciding all India office related operations.

Experience

Exponential

4 roles

Director of Engineering at Exponential

Promoted

Apr 2020Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

AdServerWebServerPartnerCacheServerUserCacheServer

Senior Principal Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2017Apr 2020 · 3 yrs

  • Leading the core AdServer/WebServer team at Exponential. Working as the technical architect cum product owner for the team. My day-today responsibilities on the major side includes, designing the highly scalable, robust and efficient product modules and then get them coded myself as well as by my team.
  • Having not just strong but very strong exposure to C & Unix internals on the technology side and ADServer/WebServer architecture, design and needs, on the advertising domain side. Have also researched significantly on the robot detection and prevention in the advertising space. Have provided a way at Exponential to offline figure out the daily robots in the entire system with billions of impressions/events and then have them blocked.
  • Having significant responsibilites and ownership of the production processes (ADServer, Webserver and different caches etc,) release deployment, debug them live in case of issues and final fix.
  • Part of the technical strategy and decision making team for the engineering.
  • I am also part of the leadership team for India center (India Execution Council). This team serves as the center head for the India center. All the India center related strategies, decisions and proposals are handled by this team, which directly works under the guidance of our CEO, Dilip Dasilva.
CUnix InternalsADServerWebServerRobot detection

Principal Engineer

Mar 2014Apr 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Technical Lead

May 2013Mar 2014 · 10 mos

Vmware

2 roles

Senior Member of Technical Staff (MTS - 4)

Apr 2012May 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo

Member of Technical Staff (MTS 3)

Jun 2010Apr 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

Sun microsystems

Member of Technical Staff - 2

Oct 2006Jun 2010 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Design and development of system level diagnostics using C on Solaris.
  • Major responsibilities include developing new diagnostics and enhancing the existing diagnostics (in I/O space) to ensure that Sun Systems shipped to customers are of the highest quality.
  • These diagnostics are used across all the Sun hardware products, during engineering, manufacturing and field usage.
CSolaris

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

BE — Computer Science and Engineering

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

MS — Software Systems

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