Vivek Chahar

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in leading engineering teams and projects.
Strong background in search and recommendation systems.
Proficient in multiple programming languages and technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with expertise in search and recommendation systems.

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Experience

Zepto

2 roles

Associate Director Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading the search, recommendation, user personalisation, offers charter at Zepto.

Engineering Manager

Jul 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Building systems from Last mile delivery to Search, Recommendation, Offers for customers.

Okcredit

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Jul 2022 · 6 mos

Leading a team of 8+ people. Monthly 1-1s with the team, setting up the road-map for the team. monitoring system health metric & tech funnels(otp login, sms, transaction sync, etc). Scaled up the team from 3 to 8 devs, product discussions, promotions of SE(SDE1) to SSE(SDE2) and SSE(SDE2 to TL(SDE3).

Technical Lead

Nov 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Tech owner for Growth team(Referral, Reward, Gamification), Onboarding team, Costing optimizations.
Tech owner for Multi user experience, Auth Gateway introduction, Real time messaging - https://medium.com/@varuny.mnnit/building-a-real-time-message-delivery-system-shipping-30m-messages-real-time-data-a-day-619186ad5f7d

Nutanix

Member Of Technical Staff 3

Dec 2018 – Nov 2019 · 11 mos · Bangalore

GraphQL, On-premise to SaaS product.

Media.net

2 roles

SDE-2

Promoted

Jul 2018 – Dec 2018 · 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Mentoring automation of training data revamp for document tagging system.
Designed and produced backend intelligence for native ads business.
~Tried out different models to increase accuracy and coverage.
Designed a real time system to generate performance data(clicks,cpc,etc) for keyword,term vector representation for keyword.

Software Engineer

Jul 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Area, India

Designed system to provide contextual keywords for a url for Non-English(German,French,Spanish) market place.
Cleaned up the whole process of serving keyword for a url to accommodate multiple languages.
Solved language specific problems for German,French,Spanish.
Provide NLP solutions for different languages.
Built in-house German Splitter to split compound terms for German language.