Gaurav Jain

CTO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India21 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Built a 70+ member engineering team from scratch.
Launched multiple high-traffic products for leading e-commerce platforms.
Transformed engineering teams into agile environments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in E-commerce and Digital Marketing with a strong technical background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Digital MarketingEngineering ManagementBig Data

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsC++Campaign ManagementCatalog ManagementCloud ComputingData StructuresDesign PatternsDistributed SystemsGitHBaseHadoopJavaMapReduce

About

With over 18 years of techno-managerial experience, I am a seasoned leader in the e-commerce and digital marketing domain, with a proven track record of architecting and delivering high-performance, high-availability, and low-latency distributed systems and solutions for internet-scale platforms. Currently, I am the Country Manager and Head of Engineering at Editorialist, a leading online fashion magazine and e-commerce platform, where I have built an India Center of Excellence (CoE) of 70+ talented professionals from scratch over the last five years. In my current role, I am responsible for overseeing the India operations and the engineering deliverables for editorialist.com, as well as partnering with the global team to drive the digital transformation and growth of the company. Prior to this, I have launched multiple business-first products for Snapdeal, a leading marketplace based out of India, scaling them with the help of technology to cater to multi-million user traffic. I have also led multiple cross-geography initiatives with nine years at NexTag, transforming the engineering team and timelines to a well-oiled agile environment. My specialties include hiring and building high-performance teams from the ground up, e-commerce, digital marketing, data analytics, start-ups, project execution, and product management.

Experience

Editorialist

2 roles

Country Manager and Head of Engineering

Promoted

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

Head of Engineering - Editorialist India

Apr 2017 – Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Snapdeal

2 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

+ Tech platform for Digital Marketing for near real time api driven FB DPA, app installs, Google Product Listing, Text Ads and Affiliate Channel.
+ Catalog platform for hosting 60 mn+ catalog served real time on live site.
+ Ads platform.

Digital MarketingAPI DevelopmentCatalog ManagementEngineering Management

Director of Engineering

Oct 2014 – Sep 2015 · 11 mos

First Engineer in Digital Marketing - Setup Digital Marketing Tech vertical from scratch - conceptualizing Affiliate And Google Search campaigns and platform to improve the same.

Digital MarketingCampaign ManagementEngineering Management

Nextag

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2014 – Oct 2014 · 7 mos

Big DataHadoopHBaseEngineering Management

Engineering Manager

Apr 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

Handled Tech platform for driving 200 mn keyword deployment across 6 different languages, 9 different countries driving 150 mn daily impressions on Google Search property. This involved correcting and managing multiple modules working on big data assets such as Hadoop, HBase.
Conceptualized and launched mulltiple tech products around Digital Marketing ecosystem within weeks such as Google PLA's, Silhouette(Search traffic for multiple domains), Groupon integration etc.
Moved team to a biweekly release train model, scrum master for daily scrums with offshore US team.

Team Lead

Jul 2005 – May 2012 · 6 yrs 10 mos

Migrated SEM platform to SOA. Automated copy writing process - developing workflow around the same for integration with Google, Bing, Yahoo Ads.
Led Catalog platform team to improve site quality by identifying anomalies like duplicates, misclassifications etc.
Identified multiple algorithms based on search quality to improve catalog quality.
Worked on exposing seller tools to NexTag sellers based on catalog anomalies.
Worked on setting up NexTag storefront for store sellers, deployed google checkout for the company