Rahul Aneja

Director of Engineering

London, United Kingdom10 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led cross-functional teams at Disney+ Hotstar.
Developed personalized content discovery systems.
Expert in data engineering and microservices architecture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer in the Streaming Services industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software ArchitectureEngineering LeadershipData EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentMicroservicesProject ManagementMachine Learning

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon DynamodbAmazon RedshiftAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache AirflowApache KafkaApache OozieApache PigApache SparkApache Spark StreamingApache StormArchitectureBig Data

Experience

10 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Disney+ hotstar (jiohotstar)

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

I lead a cross-functional team of exceptional engineers focused on driving personalized experiences and recommendations at scale. Together, we redefine how our audience discovers and engages with content, powered by robust content metadata systems that my team also builds and evolves—forming the foundation for rich, relevant, and uniquely tailored discovery journeys for millions of users.
We focus on several key areas, including:
Home Page Tray Ranking: Optimizing the order of content trays to match user preferences.
Dynamic Tray Generation: Creating personalized content trays tailored to individual interests.
Within-Tray Ranking: Fine-tuning content order within trays for maximum relevance and engagement.
Content Metadata Enrichment : Building scalable systems to expand and refine content metadata, enabling deeper personalization and better content discovery.
Search discovery :-Improving precision and recall to surface the most relevant results aligned with user intent

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Operational ExcellenceSoftware Project ManagementContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Product EngineeringMicroservices+19

Disney+ hotstar

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2022 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs

Currently, leading the Discovery Services (Personalization) team that powers the discovery experience of content(Home page personalization, Content detail Page) for Disney+Hotstar. This team is responsible for generating a unique home page experience for each user.
This team handles multiple services, pipelines/features. Some of the critical services are:
Home Page Dynamic Ranking Service (ML)
Content Discovery Service
Continue Watching service
Recommendation Collection Service
Feature Store Service
Some of these services handle around 500K RPS during peak hours.

GraphQLAmazon DynamodbAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache AirflowOperational ExcellenceSoftware Project Management+29

Senior Software Engineer (Staff)

Apr 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Operational ExcellenceContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Product EngineeringMicroservicesProject Management+6