Gaurav Jain — Director of Engineering

Who am I? I'm a technology leader with 15+ years of experience providing leadership, vision and strategic direction in fast-moving technology spaces such as mobile, web and data analytics. I have successfully scaled up and led distributed teams across Asia and America, delivering on multi-million dollar initiatives. Where do I come from? I grew up in India and East Africa, and have since lived and worked in multiple locations around the world. I'm currently based in the beautiful tropical city of Singapore! What drives me? - I am passionate about building, managing and scaling rockstar teams, and I take pride in coaching and mentoring the next generation of leaders in the organization. - I love to take on complex business problems, remove ambiguity, and chart a technology direction and strategy that is aligned with the vision of the company. - I am passionate about operational efficiency, and drive my teams to leverage Automation, CI/CD, and engineering best practices in building resilient, scalable and robust systems. - I am a grassroots innovator, always looking for ways to solve real problems faced by real customers. I'm a primary inventor on a number of technology patents, and like to speak at Technology Conferences on topics ranging from Mobile Development to Cloud Delivery - I am fascinated by the power of data, and continue to drive a culture of data-driven decision making with the help of data instrumentation, analytics and visualizations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and EduTech leader with extensive experience in mobile and cloud technologies.

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Experience: 24 yrs 10 mos

Skills

Cloud Computing
Software Engineering
Software Development
Product Management
Entrepreneurship
Mobile Development
Web Development
E-commerce

Career Highlights

15+ years of technology leadership experience
Expert in building and scaling distributed teams
Passionate about data-driven decision making

Work Experience

Autodesk

Director, Engineering - Connected Delivery Platform (6 yrs 2 mos)

Site Lead, Digital Platform and Experience (1 yr)

Senior Engineering Manager (5 yrs 3 mos)

Captionify

Founder (2 yrs)

EzeeIdeas

Co-Founder (4 yrs)

Adobe Systems

Senior Engineering Manager - Adobe Document Cloud on Mobile (1 yr 5 mos)

Engineering Manager (5 yrs)

Computer Scientist - Acrobat and Reader (4 yrs 4 mos)

Posters2Print

Founder (3 yrs)

Aricent

Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs 4 mos)

Education

Master of Business Administration at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

B.E. at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

Management Development Programme at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Secondary School (IGCSE) at International School Moshi

Gaurav Jain

Director of Engineering

Singapore, Singapore24 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

15+ years of technology leadership experience
Expert in building and scaling distributed teams
Passionate about data-driven decision making

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and EduTech leader with extensive experience in mobile and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingSoftware EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentProduct ManagementEntrepreneurshipMobile DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentE-commerce

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesAnalyticsAndroidAutomationC++CI/CDChange ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipData AnalysisDistributed SystemsInstrumentationJavaJavaScriptLeadership Development

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Experience

Autodesk

3 roles

Director, Engineering - Connected Delivery Platform

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos · Singapore

Leading the transformation of the Autodesk Cloud Delivery Platform to a modern, scalable and robust system used by millions of customers, and heading the engineering team based in Singapore and India.
The Cloud Delivery Platform powers the seamless online access to all (100+) Autodesk products and services, including popular products such as AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit.
Successfully delivered the first two phases of the platform evolution with major products live on production, while meeting business success and performance KPIs.
Providing strategic direction, talent/team development, and nurturing a culture of innovation and operational efficiency with a focus on automation, CI/CD and data-driven decision making.
Technologies involved: Front-end Development (Javascript, React JS, Flux, C++), Backend Development (Java/Tomcat, AWS, Dynamo DB), Analytics: Autodesk Data Platform, Splunk, Looker

Cloud ComputingJavaAWSData AnalysisAutomationCI/CD+1

Site Lead, Digital Platform and Experience

Mar 2019 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr · Singapore

As acting site lead for the Digital Platform and Experience organization, I'm:
Driving Innovation Programs (such as Hackathons, Patent programs) across the Autodesk Singapore site
Representing Autodesk at local government and university engagements
Helping the Autodesk Singapore site across multiple dimensions as part of the Singapore Site Leadership Council

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2014 – Apr 2019 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Singapore

Conceptualized and successfully released the Autodesk Desktop App (ADA) - the modern, cloud-connected experience that allows millions of customers to stay up to date with their products (>250K updates per week), to check their entitlements, and access full products and services.
Started a small engineering team from the ground up, and scaled the team to address the growth in adoption and functionality of ADA.
ADA is a fully instrumented, auto-updatable app which allows rapid experimentation and A/B testing capabilities. Technologies: React JS (front-end), Tomcat Java / AWS (back-end), Autodesk Data Platform (Analytics / Instrumentation), Looker (Visualization)

React JSJavaAWSAnalyticsInstrumentationSoftware Development+1

Captionify

Founder

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

Founded and launched Captionify.com, which is an online social platform meant for the creative professionals who post and participate in challenges related to image/caption ideas, apply filters, add comments, like entries, follow users, and also see a Time Lapse of their creations.
Architecture: Full-stack, RESTful architecture
Technologies: Node JS, Neo4J Graph DB, AWS EC2/Lambda, EBS

Node JSAWSNeo4JRESTful architectureEntrepreneurshipSoftware Development

Ezeeideas

Co-Founder

Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 · 4 yrs

Co-Founded EzeeIdeas, which was focused on the EduTech industry with mobile apps and games on Android and iOS platforms. Built and successfully released multiple apps, including WordJam on Android, and MagicFlood on iOS and Android.
Technologies: Java, C++ with JNI (Android), Objective C (iOS)

JavaC++Objective CEntrepreneurshipMobile Development

Adobe systems

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager - Adobe Document Cloud on Mobile

Promoted

Feb 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

Started and scaled the development of the Adobe Reader apps on popular mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Windows Phone), and successfully led their adoption to 200+ million active users.
The goal of the project was to capitalize on the evolving mobile market by building the first official PDF Reader on these platforms, and to drive adoption and growth to become the de-facto standard, while ensuring high customer ratings.
Started this project from scratch on Android, and scaled up to include iOS and Windows Phone. Continued to focus on growth and adoption by delivering new features and capabilities, including In-App Subscriptions, and grew the user base to 200+ million.

Mobile DevelopmentiOSAndroidProduct Management

Engineering Manager

Feb 2008 – Feb 2013 · 5 yrs

Led the development and adoption of the Adobe Reader desktop application on Unix-based platforms (Linux, Solaris).

Computer Scientist - Acrobat and Reader

Oct 2003 – Feb 2008 · 4 yrs 4 mos

As a Computer Scientist I developed key features in the Acrobat and Adobe Reader suite of products on Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms.
Responsible for a large part of the Reader on Unix platforms, including core architecture and several major feature areas such as the PDF Library (the PDF Parsing and Rendering Engine), Viewer layer (including Menus, Toolbars, Panes, Windows, Font Handling, Clipboard Handling, Transparency handling, etc.), Annotations and Collaboration (including complete design of Shared Reviews using Unix IPC), Unicode Support, etc.
Implemented support for viewing PDF files in Protected Mode on Windows Vista and above within Internet Explorer by creating a new Broker Process that works in conjunction with the low-integrity Reader process via COM.

Posters2print

Founder

Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 · 3 yrs

Create a full-fledged e-commerce portal for design and art enthusiasts looking to decorate their homes and offices with classic fine art prints, as well as other categories such as calendars and modern art. I eventually sold off this business to the owners of Larger than Life prints (https://www.ltlprints.com/).
Technologies: osCommerce, PHP (back-end), Javascript (front-end), payment integration with PayPal

Aricent

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2001 – Oct 2003 · 2 yrs 4 mos

As a Senior Software Engineer I designed and developed low level device drivers and communication protocol stacks for routers and high-end switches. I implemented from scratch the SIP ALG (Session Initiation Protocol Application Level Gateway) that was part of a device driver for an internet router.

PHPJavaScriptWeb DevelopmentE-commerce