Raman Soni

VP of Engineering

Gurgaon, Haryana, India17 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in transforming monolithic systems to microservices.
Proven track record in leading high-performing engineering teams.
Strong expertise in cloud-native architecture and platform modernization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused technology leader with extensive experience in cloud-native architecture and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementCloud ComputingPlatform IntegrationProject ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipIos DevelopmentMobile Development

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAmazon EKSAmazon SQSAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)Amazon Web Services (AWS)AndroidAutomationCI/CDCassandraChange ManagementCode ReviewCollaborationContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

About

Proven technology leader with deep expertise in system design, enterprise-scale platform modernization, and driving adoption of complex software ecosystems. Skilled in transforming monolithic systems into cloud-native, containerized microservices to improve scalability, performance, and reliability. Adept at defining technology strategy, re-engineering processes, and aligning platforms with business objectives to enable global growth. Recognized for building and leading high-performing engineering organizations (20+ engineers and EMs), fostering cross-functional collaboration, and driving cultural and organizational change. Hired and scaled best-in-class teams from scratch, delivering innovative, secure, and future-ready solutions.

Experience

Celigo

Senior Engineering Manager

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram · Remote

Celigo streamlines and simplifies the integration of business applications and data sources in the enterprise. Our Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) enables the entire organization to be more agile and innovate faster giving more time back on meaningful work activity.
My role described by
Team & Budget Leadership: Lead 4 global scrum teams (22 engineers), including hiring, mentoring, and performance management; own budgeting, resource planning, and vendor strategy to maximize delivery velocity.
Collaboration & Governance: Act as technology partner to product, DevOps, and business leaders; publish progress reports, risks, and outcomes to ensure transparency and alignment across the organization.
System Design & Modernization: Drive enterprise-scale transformation from monolithic architecture to containerized microservices using Docker, Kubernetes and AWS; collaborate with enterprise architects to design unified, globally integrated systems.
Technology Strategy & Roadmap: Define multi-year platform strategy aligning business priorities, operational workflows, and scalability goals; lead architecture assessments and process re-engineering to remove system bottlenecks.
Adoption & Change Leadership: Partner with global stakeholders to map current processes, build adoption plans, and re-engineer workflows; developed training and change frameworks to accelerate onboarding to new systems.
Application Delivery & Security: Oversee end-to-end delivery of backend services—architecture, development, deployment, and support—ensuring security, compliance, and alignment with business SLAs.
Innovation & Emerging Tech: Incubate new initiatives including AI-powered integration mapping, low-code automation, and observability platforms to advance operational efficiency.

Cloud ComputingEngineering ManagementPlatform IntegrationDistributed SystemsPeople Development

Olx autos

Engineering Manager

Oct 2020 – Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

Led a team of 15+ backend & frontend engineers of tech stacks including Java Spring, NodeJS, ReactJS, iOS, Android.
Collaborate with cross functional engineering and product leaders to define product and tech OKR's for each FY.
Using agile methodologies, improving efficiency and product quality.
Technology hiring for backend and frontend.
Team's individual growth and tech goal planning, mentoring, regular one-to-one for track, 360 feedbacks and appraisals.
Successfully delivered warehouse and logistics process automation, increasing car procurement journey efficiency by ~140%.
Successfully delivered inspector route improvement and inspection overbooking improvements, reducing lead to inspection time by ~50%.
Successfully migrated sell side of classic OLX C2C with FCG Dealer platform that later become OLX Autos D2C platform.
Successfully migrated from FCG Classic app to OLX dealer super app having auction, finance, D2C and monetisation (VAS) capabilities.

Project ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipAmazon SQSContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Amazon Web Services (AWS)SQL+22

Olx

2 roles

Solutions Architect

Promoted

Nov 2018 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

Led a team of 20+ frontend and backend engineers for tech deliveries and platform optimisations.
Successfully migrated from Jenkins to Gitlab CI/CD, impoving application delivery, automating sonarqube quality gates, unit test code coverage restrictions, vulnerability and security scan.
Technology hiring for backend and frontend.
Successfully migrated from HTTP based web chat to real time XMPP chat engine. Replaced monolithic application to microservice-based distributed application for high-scale countries.
Successfully implemented smart chat suggestion, sell and bug price suggestions and auto replies, improving lead to sell transaction time, also helped closing the leads between buyer and seller.
Improved system availability from 96.64% to 99.8% through proactive measures and successful migration to AWS
Improved MTTR from 120 mins to 30 mins for critical bugs.
Developed common solutions to enhance in-house framework and application security.

Project ManagementAmazon SQSContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Amazon Web Services (AWS)SQLTeam Building+20

Lead Software Engineer

Jul 2015 – Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

Led a team of 10+ iOS developers for product delivery for classified (C2C) application.
Worked on Objective-C and Swift. Used CocoaPods dependency injection. Created reusable pods for OLX groups.
Worked on PHP for backend APIs. (Monolith backend)
Successfully migrated from OLX C2C app from hybrid/pwa to iOS native.
Successfully merged Letgo with OLX Classifieds and single source application to existing and new LATAM markets.
Improved CI/CD pipelines to build and release to multiple markets. Added stages ensure UT, sonar and other qaulity checks.
Technology hiring and tech branding.
Developed and designed advertising platform SDK for iOS. This helped OLX Group to monetise new/existing application in just a glimpse.

Project ManagementSwiftContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Team BuildingPHPCode Review+9

Snapdeal

Lead Software Engineer

Apr 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Cross team coordination between tech, design and product for feature deliveries.
Technology hiring and tech branding.
Executions and R&D is based on agile processes. Scrum for daily updates and delivery progress track.
Individual contribute, Objective C.
Built universal application.
Built in-app widgets and local recommendation engine.

Project ManagementContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Team BuildingCode ReviewRDBMSScrum+4

Nimbuzz

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon, India · On-site

Individual developer, Objective c.
Worked on real-time chat platform using Jabber, XMPP, SIP, WebRTC.
Worked on in-house advertising framework using MRAID.
Coordination between product, design and QA.

Code ReviewScrumObjective-CiOSiOS Development

Wildnet technologies

Team Lead

Jan 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Noida Area, India

Cross platform team leader (Android, iOS, Appcelerator titanium)
Communication with service clients for tech related things.
Communication with business develops for requirement feasibility and effort estimates.
Individual developer, iOS mobile development, objective c programming.

Code ReviewObjective-CAndroidiOSMobile Development

B24 e solutions pvt. ltd.

Software Engineer

Nov 2008 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Jaipur Area, India

Discuss and translate business requirements from client into technical requirements for the team.
Discuss technical feasibility of client's requirements with business developers.
Individual developer, iOS Mobile programming, Objective C.

Code ReviewObjective-CiOSiOS Development