Praveen M.

Director of Engineering

India18 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 18+ years of IT experience in diverse domains.
  • Proven track record in increasing revenue through technical leadership.
  • Expertise in building high-performance engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned engineering leader in Ecommerce and Fintech with expertise in scalable systems and cybersecurity.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team ManagementTechnical LeadershipCybersecurityCloud MigrationPayment SystemsData AnalysisRecommendation SystemsAdvertising TechnologyDistributed SystemsBig DataAd Server DevelopmentAlgorithm DevelopmentSystem RevampFraud Detection

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsApache KafkaApache StormApache ZooKeeperCassandraCore JavaData StructuresGo (Programming Language)HazelcastHibernateIncident ManagementJavaJava Enterprise EditionLinux

About

• Engineering leader with 18+ years of IT experience in building customer centric products across varied domains – ecommerce, payments and supply chain. • Adept at bootstrapping, building and leading high-performance teams with E2E ownership of the products to enable business growth. • Competence in driving technical excellence, optimizing engineering execution, fostering innovation and delivering distributed, reliable and scalable solutions.

Experience

Canterr, inc.

Director of Engineering

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Remote

  • Bootstrapped WayFair Ads teams (~50+ team size) in India, took incremental ownership of critical initiatives in Ads in supply side platform (SSP) and demand side platform (DSP), provided technical leadership and delivered multi-quarter initiatives resulting in ~70% increase in Ads revenue over the past 2 years.
Team ManagementTechnical LeadershipProduct Development

Microsoft

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Dec 2019Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Bootstrapped an India-based engineering teams, taking ownership of core functionality of a cybersecurity product to secure web applications.
  • Delivered 20-70% latency improvements for reverse proxy security services, enhancing performance for millions of users.
  • Built infrastructure migration strategy to Azure, ensuring better scalability and reliability.
CybersecurityPerformance OptimizationCloud Migration

Uber

Engineering leader

Oct 2018Oct 2019 · 1 yr · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Led stabilization efforts for Uber’s Payment Reconciliation Engine (handling 500GB/month of data).
  • Saved ~20 hrs/week of developer time by automating debugging tools and enhancing reporting capabilities.
  • Designed early outage detection dashboards, improving incident resolution efficiency.
Payment SystemsData AnalysisIncident Management

Joveo

Engineering Leader

Apr 2018Sep 2018 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • Joveo is a programmatic advertising start-up in recruitment space. Developed a basic recommendation engine for job postings and integrated Pay-Per-Slot (PPS) capabilities.
Recommendation SystemsAdvertising Technology

Walmart global tech india

Senior Technical Lead

Aug 2015Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

  • Implemented a scalable, highly available self-organized distributed system for optimal resource sharing within the given constraints of infrastructure and SLAs. Developed a resource distribution algorithm and a generic framework on top of the distributed cache as part of this implementation. This framework is being used across multiple teams. PATENT was filed based on this solution.
  • Developed a data pipeline/platform using Big data tech stack and streaming technologies for Walmart supply chain and provide insights on the data for business decisions. Also perform real-time data analysis for preventive actions and provide alerts and notifications to enhance customer experience.
Distributed SystemsAlgorithm DevelopmentBig Data

Souq.com

Technical Lead

Jan 2015Aug 2015 · 7 mos · Bangalore

  • Souq.com is the largest e-commerce site in the middle-east countries.
  • During my tenure here, lead the whole back-end development of an end-to-end customized Ad Server platform in Java from inception. It serves the sponsored products of souq sellers as ads to the users of Souq.com.
  • Developed the decision engine algorithms to determine the user relevant ads from the whole Ad inventory. Also an aggregator was designed for custom report generation and display to sellers and business.
Ad Server DevelopmentAlgorithm Development

Paypal

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2012Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Chennai

  • Revamped a legacy system written in C++ to Java. The new system applies holds and reserves for sellers in every transaction. This is highly scalable and reliable with many performance optimizations resulting in very low SLAs adding tremendous business value, specifically, for mobile payment products.
  • Developed security, fraud detection and risk mitigation capabilities for sharing the same bank across multiple PayPal accounts.
  • Implemented business critical enhancements to risk platform which is the backbone for secure payments.
System RevampFraud Detection

Pwc india

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2011Jul 2012 · 11 mos

Tata consultancy services

Software Engineer

Sep 2005Jul 2009 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Education

IIT Delhi

M Tech

Jan 2009Jan 2011

Andhra University

B.E. — ECE

Jan 2001Jan 2005

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