Debadarsini Nayak

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Built and managed teams of over 60 engineers.
Delivered impactful database services at Uber.
Led engineering for competitive intelligence platforms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce engineering leader with expertise in database management and real-time analytics.

Contact

debadarsini.nayak@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDatabase ManagementReal-time AnalyticsSupply PlanningData SciencePlatform Engineering

Other Skills

ActiveMQAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache SparkAspectJBig DataCassandraCloud ApplicationsCompetitive IntelligenceData CachingData IngestionData Science ModelsDemand ForecastingEhcache

About

A leader with vast experience in setting up teams and delivering world class products and platforms.

Experience

Uber

Engineering Leader

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Set up org of 60+ engineers from ground up and managing 80+ org consisting of managers , sr manager , sr staffs , staff and ics
Bootstrapped multiple platform teams and delivered impact through multiple org level initiatives
Leading database/storage as service platform teams such as MySQL/Vitess as a service and metrics database M3DB, Zookeeper/ETCD etc which empowers all critical use cases of Uber.
Brought Vitess to Uber
Responsible for four nines of availability and empowering million to billion scale rps for these databases.
Responsible for disaster recovery for Uber’s databases.
My org is also responsible for Kafka, Flink , Real time analytics (pinot) and search (which runs on top of Lucene and OpenSearch) platform from India.
Led ML platform team in India
Led cloud foundational and core infra services for Uber

Database ManagementCloud ComputingReal-time AnalyticsMachine LearningPlatform Engineering

Flipkart

Senior Engineering Manager

Oct 2020 – Sep 2021 · 11 mos

= Led engineering of supply planning for Flipkart (supply planning , demand planning and demand forecasting) and platforms ( DS platform , data ingestion platform, validation platform , feature engineering )
= Led an engineering team of 40+ members
= Driving team towards a platformised approach and roadmap
= Hiring , retaining, coaching and mentoring talent.
= Working with business, operations, DS, product owners, cross functional teams to create roadmap, ideation and ensure smooth execution and delivery.

Supply PlanningData ScienceTeam ManagementRoadmap Development

Expedia group

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

= As the first employee of Vrbo.com in Bangalore, built and helped in setting up technology teams ( competitive intelligence, database platform teams) from scratch.
= Led engineering for Competitive Intelligence (CI) platforms for VR, partner-facing Vacation Rental (VR) products and platforms , market insights and marketing products like lead generation to conversion process.
=Led engineering for knowledge graphs , platforms , data science models, image processing , stream processing platforms.
=Hiring,retaining great talents, coaching and mentoring, creating leaders and architects for the team.
=Working with stakeholders, product owners, cross functional and cross geography teams to create roadmap ,ideation and execution
=Ensuring industry best patterns being followed in the team by building quality, resilience and on-call support into the products and services owned by the team.
=Ensured agile best practices being followed in the team.

Competitive IntelligenceData Science ModelsImage ProcessingAgile MethodologiesData Science

Cisco systems

Technical Lead

Feb 2013 – Mar 2018 · 5 yrs 1 mo

=Led platform capabilities team of two IOT product .Led all the platform areas like dev productivity( ci/cd, run time upgrade,test, api , connectivity frameworks), search platform - elastic search and generic query dsl, database platform - postgresql,orientdb,Cassandra,MongoDb, workflow management system - activity, streaming platform - Kafka n Kstream and data platform- spark

IoTPlatform EngineeringDatabase ManagementStreaming Platforms