Praveen Nagarajan

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 1 mo experience
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Key Highlights

  • 17+ years of engineering leadership experience.
  • Proven track record in architecting SaaS solutions.
  • Expert in managing high-performing engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Retail engineering leader with extensive experience in technical architecture and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical ArchitectureSaas DevelopmentTeam ManagementBig DataSoftware Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAngular JSAngularJSApache KafkaAzureAzure Cosmos DBAzure Data FactoryAzure Service BusCassandraCosmosDB2DBUnitDockerETL ToolsFlink

About

Engineering Leader with a Masters Degree and 17+ years of professional experience, with 7+ years people management experience, including managing managers. Highly motivated self-starter with an innate desire for staying up to date with technologies, building prototypes and identifying platformization opportunities, thus saving cost and increasing dev productivity. A successful track record of delivering highly time-critical products and managing high performing teams.

Experience

Inflection.io

Head of Engineering

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos · India · Hybrid

Salesforce

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2024Jul 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Architected and led the Energy Advisor component leveraging GenAI capabilities to help end users diagnose high energy bills and recommend optimal plans based on location and meter types, incorporating LLM models and prompt engineering to enhance customer support. Developed a solution for agents to summarise customer cases and offer personalized recommendations.
  • Architected and led the Energy Self-Service Portal featuring a fully customisable UI that allows users to drag and drop components for a comprehensive view of billing, usage, and payment options, integrated
  • with Mulesoft for external connectivity. The portal also provides tailored clean energy programs for easy enrollment.
  • Currently architecting a Revenue Management Platform for sales applications, enabling both B2B and B2C users to browse energy products and dynamically price them based on usage and configuration.
GenAILLM modelsprompt engineeringMulesoftTechnical ArchitectureSaaS Development

Meesho

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2022Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Domain: Retail
  • Technology: Spring Boot, Python, HBase, Redis, Kubernetes, Flink, GoLang, Casasndra, Qdrant
  • Define and drive technical roadmap for the Shopex Horizontal, which includes Backend Platform, Ranking Platform, Search Platform andAndroid platform, with 15 direct reportees and 30 skip level reportees
  • Architected and executed the Meecom platform to replace the executing third party customer engagement platform, thus saving the company 2crores a month
  • Collaborate with other leads and stakeholders on organization-wide initiatives and influence long term platform architecture roadmap
  • Lead multiple engineering teams to implement and deploy complex software solutions that meet security, scalability and performance requirements like Gateways, Aggregation layers, Real Time product indexing, Communications to name a few
  • Partner closely with Product management, user experience and other engineering teams to create, drive and deliver intuitive experiences to our customers
  • Beyond people management - Building prototypes for flink pipelines, observability libraries and automation tools
Spring BootPythonHBaseRedisKubernetesFlink+5

Walmart global tech india

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2021Jan 2022 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Domain: Retail
  • Technology: Spring Boot, Python, Azure, Riversand, Cosmos
  • Lead the R&D team for creating a Item Master Data Management and Pricing rule system and automation of these workflows
  • Solutioned and implemented the transformation platform to migrate configs, thus saving 400 story points (2 developers year of work) and 45 days of business bandwidth
  • Develop and grow talent through effective mentoring, succession planning and retention strategies for key talent in a fast growth economic environment
  • Worked with the Engineering and Product Management teams to establish and deliver the product road-map
Spring BootPythonAzureRiversandCosmosTechnical Architecture+1

Manhattan associates

Software Engineering Manager R&D

Oct 2016Feb 2021 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked in offices located in Atlanta, USA and Bangalore, India
  • Lead a 10+ member team comprising of Development and QE professionals.
  • Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to, technical direction on building highly customer focused and large scale software components, overseeing agile development process, working with various stakeholders (PM, UX, BAs) on requirement/design/integration of software components and
  • addressing customer issues
  • Actively involved in architecting the technical design to help build long term strategy for the service
  • Architected and led the transitioning of a monolith to a Cloud-based, service-oriented architecture
  • Expertise and strength in hiring and grooming talent to help build vision that facilitates organizational
  • growth
Technical VisionSaaS DevelopmentTechnical ArchitectureTeam ManagementOrganizational Initiatives

The home depot

Technical Lead

Nov 2013Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Atlanta, Georgia · On-site

  • Worked on Universal Customer Service, which are Jersey based RESTful web services, which persist and retrieve customer data from Cassandra. These service are published to the Home Depot stores and internal applications to access customer and sales data. Developed Junit Test cases using mocking framework PowerMock
  • Worked on Customer Golden Record, which is the Hadoop repository of Home Depot. Wrote complex Hive queries and Map Reduce jobs to maintain a deduped Customer Repository. Wrote ETL jobs using Talend to migrate data between Hadoop and Teradata.
  • Designed and developed an internal portal for time and expense capturing and Business Intelligence charting, using Angular JS and Spring 4
  • Architected, designed and implemented a customer repository in Cassandra v2, with Solr enabled lookups for elastic search.
  • Handled the tasks of providing technical direction for developing, designing and integrating systems for customers
  • Assigned the tasks of monitoring and reviewing the work of the development team
  • Handled the tasks of identifying system deficiencies and implementing effective solutions
  • Worked on Agile Development process for diverse requirements
RESTful web servicesCassandraHiveTalendAngular JSSpring+2

Velti

Software Engineer

Jul 2011Nov 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Atlanta, Georgia · On-site

  • Domain: Mobile Marketing
  • Technology: Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, PLSQL, Talend
  • Developed the website for the company –InfoCenter using Java, J2EE which is the customer and internal portal for reports visualization and configuration. The presentation layer was developed using HTML, JSP, JavaScript and CSS. The business layer was implemented using Spring 3.0 with JBOSS 5 as the application server. The data layer was implemented using Hibernate.
  • Developed an application ‘PreRouter’, which receives XML or HTTP requests from customers with details on the SMS message to be sent to mobile end users and delivers it to the end user.
  • Experience with full development cycle of a Data Warehouse, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, and maintenance. Developed and maintained the data warehousing script using Oracle 11, PL/SQL and shell scripting.
  • Developed complex reports using multiple data providers, user defined objects, and synchronized queries.
JavaJ2EESpringHibernatePLSQLTalend+1

Epic

Software Developer

May 2010Jul 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Domain: Healthcare
  • Technology: Java, Struts, JSP, Cache
  • Working on a project for University of Pennsylvania Health Center to enable Shared claim processing for Professional and Hospital Billing.
  • Worked on a project for UW Hospitals. Designed, coded and tested the front end and back end to enable dynamic selection of coverage for each visit of the patient to the hospital.

Cognizant technology solutions

Program Analyst

May 2007Jul 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Chennai Area

  • Domain: Banking and Financial services
  • Vertical: Mainframes
  • Worked on a project for First Data Corporation, a payment processing company based in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Rewrote the existing system replacing Oracle by DB2 and Small Talk with COBOL.
  • Awarded the most valuable resource award in the above project..
  • Ranked 1st out of 67 peers in the module tests conducted in training.

Education

The Ohio State University

Master of Science (M.S.) — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2010

College of Engineering, Guindy

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Information Technology

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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