Vikas Jain

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

17+ years of product development experience.
Led teams of over 35 engineers at Flipkart.
Expertise in building scalable big data solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in E-commerce and Big Data solutions.

Contact

vikas.jain1986@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Big DataTeam ManagementCloud StorageData GovernanceArchitectureE-commerceAndroid DevelopmentPayment SystemsClient CoordinationApplication Development

Other Skills

Adobe FlexAirflowApache SolrApache SparkAthenaAuto-scalingBackboneBigQueryBusiness IntelligenceCCloud ServicesClustrixConfiguration ManagementCustomer RetentionDB2

About

More than 17+ Years of Product development experience. (E-commerce, Payments, Big Data, Manufacturing). More than 10+ Years of experience in Leadership roles with team management, tech roadmap planning, Stakeholder management, Sprint planning and execution, Release management, Design review, code review etc. I am presently working as an Sr. Engineering Manager at Flipkart, where I oversee 3 teams comprising more than 35 sharp minds. Over the past few years, my team have developed numerous utilities within the Hadoop ecosystem. 1. Flipkart Managed Vanilla Yarn Cluster with Custom Auto Scaler (Scale up and Down on the basis of load) 2. Long running Data Proc cluster on GCP. 3. Data Governance and storage layer (Hot, Warm & Cold) 4. Next Gen Big Data BI tool Specialties: JAVA/J2EE, Hibernate, Spring MVC, Strut 1.3 , Struts 2, AJAX , XML, Web services , Backbone. JQuery, Play activator Framework 2.3 NoSql: Couchbase 3, Mongo Search server : Elastic search 1.4, Apache Solr. DataBase: MySql, DB2, Clustrix Cloud Storage: S3, GCP Big data: EMR, Sqoop, Apache Spark, Athena, BigQuery, Hadoop 3, Data Proc Workflow: Airflow Other technologies: C, Adobe Flex, Junit, Terracotta framework

Experience

Flipkart

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Leading 5 teams with multipe EM, devs and architects.
Plato. AI
Team build a NLQ bases solution using GenAI that solves the problem of data discovery, techincal no how for business and Leadership
They are working on continuous Accuracy improvement and complex case handling.
https://blog.flipkart.tech/plato-ai-revolutionising-flipkarts-data-interaction-with-natural-language-081644ac6b16
Plato. RCA
A product powered by genAI, that helps to understand the growth and dips in business metrics, identify the lienage and cause of that issue using hypotensis.
Plato
https://blog.flipkart.tech/transforming-data-analytics-at-flipkart-self-serve-insights-on-petabytes-scale-data-fa59caf2bc54

HadoopData GovernanceBig DataTeam ManagementStakeholder Management

Engineering Manager

Aug 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Flipkart Data Platform
Driving a highly efficient team of 30+ engineers consist of sde, sre, engineering managers to building a multi-tenant big data ecosystem as a cloud service.
Scale : 200+ TB of compute, PBs of Data, 5k+ nodes, thousands of daily jobs submission.

Big DataCloud ServicesTeam LeadershipTeam Management

Makemytrip.com

2 roles

Technical Lead

Apr 2015 – Sep 2015 · 5 mos

Lead Android development for Material design.
Design payment SDK that interact with common checkout of MMT to provide seamless experience for other companies of MakeMyTrip.
Designed and developed GTO (Gateway Traffic optimisation) for dynamically choosing a best PG for transaction.

Android DevelopmentPayment SDK Design

SDE 1/ Sr. Software Developer 2/Tech Lead

Jul 2012 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos

MakeMyTrip.com, India’s leading online travel company.
Responsible for Online Payments at MakeMytrip to enhance customer experience.
Rearchitect the legacy payment system to centralised payment system. This leads to faster delivery for payment instrument and payment gateway across all MMT group of companies
This above system reduced the significant development efforts and monitoring efforts.
Reduced the hops to achieve high success rate in Authentication.
Integrated multiple payment instrument and gateways to charge currency in INR/EUR/USD/THB etc.
Designed and developed on responsive UI with multiple layout and multi lingual support.

Payment SystemsUI Development

Quikr

Tech lead/ EM /Architect/ Sr EM

Apr 2015 – Aug 2020 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

As an Engineering Manager for Goods team i am responsible for Architecture, delivery , quality, timelines, team building , growth of team members and innovation
My Team developed below application :
Quikr Wallet: To provide promotional money and increase the customer retention.
Offer Service: Make An Offer functionality to provide online negotiation between buyer and seller.
WMS: Inventory management for different sellers of Quikr.
Order Management: Maintaining the orders and their status.
Inventory Service: to keep track of available inventory in Quikr plateform.
CCM: A utility tool to maintain config in Quikr and dynamically update in all the applications.
promotion service: Provide Cashback/instant discount to the buyer/seller
Deal System: Running deal to attract customer on Quikr platform and increase the sale.

ArchitectureTeam BuildingDelivery ManagementTeam Management

Mindtree

Module Lead

Oct 2010 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · ben

lead the offshore development, co-ordinating with onshore teams and client in Mindtree. Worked in Manufacturing and insurance domain. (Sony , Chartis)

Offshore DevelopmentClient Coordination

Neev technologies

software developer

Aug 2008 – Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Responsible for application development life cycle : architecture, development, testing & deployment.
developed E-commerce, CRM and social networking plateform from scratch.

Application DevelopmentArchitecture