Dhiraj Kumar

Director of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States18 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 18 years of experience in technical leadership.
Led multiple teams on high-impact projects generating millions in revenue.
Expert in Java and related technologies with a focus on innovation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in SaaS and technology architecture with a strong focus on high-performance teams.

Contact

dhirajkus@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

AlgorithmsArchitectural DesignCore JavaCouchbaseData StructuresDesign PatternsDesign patternsDistributed SystemsHibernateJ2EE Application DevelopmentJBoss Application ServerJSPJavaJava Enterprise EditionLeadership

About

More than 18 years of experience in Technical Leadership, Team Management, Software Development, and Architecting Large Scale Platforms. During this tenure, I have extensively worked on Java and related technologies. I led multiple teams working on critical business problems. I mentored them to improve the division's delivery performance with time. I believe in open communication and work towards building an environment with the following key aspects as the base: 1) Mutual respect and inclusion 2) Solve customer problems to achieve key business goals 3) Impeccable technical acumen 5) Innovation-oriented with proper consideration of immediate and long-term solutions 6) Fast-paced with an appropriate risk-taking appetite Specialties: Technical Leadership, Building and maintaining High performant Tech team, Delivering multiple big projects in parallel with the business impact of millions of USDs each, Java, Kafka, Active MQ, Aerospike, MongoDB, SQL, Hibernate, Spring, Couchbase, Jboss, Apache Tomcat, Flex, Statistics

Experience

Expedia group

4 roles

Senior Director, Software Development Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Leading an engineering organization spread across 6 locations, responsible for building and maintaining connectivity with supply partners for multiple lines of business. This includes establishing direct connections with some of the largest airlines to source high-quality NDC content.

Director, Software Development Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2020 – Mar 2024 · 4 yrs

Organizational Leadership:
o Led an engineering organization across 7 global locations.
o Managed multiple levels of people managers, driving various multi-quarter initiatives, including architectural transformations.
o Structured the organization into flexible functional pods, managing budgets and fostering engagement through forums.
o Mentored senior members for advancement opportunities.
Strategy & Direction Setting:
o Defined and executed location and vendor resource strategy.
o Developed multi-year strategies for the car product line in collaboration with senior leaders.
Technological Leadership:
o Actively participated in senior leadership and architectural forums, guiding tech decisions.
o Collaborated with external tech leadership to align roadmaps, architectural patterns, and API standards.

Senior Engineering Manager

Aug 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

o Led the 24-member Insurance team spread over three locations India (Gurgaon), Canada, and the USA(Seattle).
o Owned multiple tier-1 services that were responsible for generating 90% of multi-billion revenue.
o Led the launch of Insurance on the Hcom brand with a revenue impact of >60 million/year.

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

o Led the 20-member User Generated Content organization.
o Hired 14 engineers within 3 months and consolidated the org at one location rather than three.
o Brought two machine learning components to life from scratch – focused on sentiment analysis, entity extraction, and automated moderation of reviews.
o Used the ML/AI platform to save multimillion manual moderation costs; Multiple new features around reviews helped in generating millions in additional revenue within a year.

Snapdeal

Software Architect and Engineering Manager

Nov 2014 – Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Delhi Area

o Led a 25-member team; 3 tech leads & 7 senior engineers as direct reports; ownership of 4 tier-1 services.
o Team Management– groom and guide the tech leads on people management, performance management, resource, and capacity planning, motivating, and driving engagement, and related management skills.
o Played the role of technical point of contact in various feature prioritization meetings for the whole seller organization (consisting of 200 people).
o Got extensive exposure to working directly with senior leaders – CTO, CPO, SVPs, and VPs.
o Got the yearly “You are a rockstar” award for exhibiting outstanding leadership skills.

Exponential

Technical Lead

Sep 2013 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Delhi Area

o Designed and implemented the log ingestion and analysis service using java NIO that could process 1.5 TB of logs within a few hours over a single machine deployment.
o Optimized the reporting framework to provide insight into the user interactions with websites.
o Reverse-engineered multiple services and trained the team by preparing UML and related design docs.

Yahoo!

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

o As part of a 6-member engineering team, designed, and implemented two services from scratch to help the advertisement platform in matching demand with supply appropriately. Impact >$60 million/year in revenue.
o Provided training and transferred knowledge to the vendor team to take care of the maintenance of the services.

Nds services pay tv technology

Software Engineer

Feb 2010 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

o Redesigned code to make it modular and maintainable using various design patterns.
o Implemented the integration of IP TV for Aster TV, Poland – helped in increasing the revenue by 10%.
o Contributed a critical functionality of circular scroll to the platform helping more than 100 projects.

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Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2007 – Feb 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos

o Implemented end-to-end real-time reporting which required writing services to generate complex yet optimized SQL queries based on the options selected by the user.
o Wrote Window and Linux installers for a new service along with automatic over the internet upgrade functionality.
o Got to work in a start-up mode which helped to get exposed to a fast-paced environment along with an opportunity to work with numerous technologies within a very small span.