Sep 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Bidgely offers its SAAS and AI-aas software to utilities to manage their customer journey and optimizes energy savings for end consumers. Bidgely also runs marketplace commerce for utilities and end consumers driving energy savings, reducing energy wastage and taking strides towards a green world.
• In the core, Bidgely's AI driven personalized recommendation and engagement models (based on energy consumption data of 10s of millions of homes and external data - like weather, income, demography, engagement through multiple channels, social etc.) helps end consumers understand their energy consumption pattern, become energy-aware and help them make necessary purchases (appliances, programs and services).
• Responsible for Engineering, Data and Services delivery teams to help them build the next gen AI driven software at global scale and continue & enhance a culture that fosters collaboration & ownership, provides transparency, encourages innovation and is intrinsically centered around technology/product craftsmanship.

Oct 2018 – Sep 2019 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Built a world class, geographically distribute R&D organization for a fastest growing Digital Telco and personalized Digital Service providers. Was responsible for Data platform, analysis and data science teams across all geographical locations where Circles has business and leading the Bangalore Development Center.
• (Fratics is acquihired by Circles.Life)

Apr 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Fratics delivers products and solutions for real time business insights, risk assessment, customer analysis and forecasting. Our goal is to deliver the most innovative and high quality solutions at an amazing speed and price. And our satisfaction comes when our customer's customers are extremely happy. We are bit busy in building products and delivering it to some of the big names in retail, e-commerce and financial space, so please wait a little before searching us on the web. In between, do write to me at amitava@fratics.com if you need to reach us.

Apr 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Making ordering with Snapdeal a delightful experience for our customers (Order management), Building a marketplace of trust (R&R, Q&A, UGC), Catching those who breach trust (Risk management of marketplace) and Providing great customer experience post order placement and beyond (Customer experience).

Sep 2014 – Mar 2015 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led the technology and analytics team across all verticals - Consumer products, Enterprise products, Core platforms and IT Infrastructure.
• TaxiForSure (TFS) is acquired by OlaCabs in Feb 2015.

Aug 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• The Tribune Company is one of the largest media companies with over 10 newspapers (we own LA Times, Chicago Tribune), 23 Broadcast stations, WGN-America Cable Channel, and a smattering of radio stations, magazines and other assets. Tribune Digital Ventures (TDV) creates, designs, and develops new digital products and businesses that leverage Tribune's strength in local content and data, and maximises the reach of its media assets.
• As GM of India operations, responsible for building and establishing the Bangalore centre as TDV’s most important off-shore development centre catering to product development and editorial services. Instrumental in building a 110+ strong team in 6 months of inception including hiring key leadership talents for Engineering, Product Management, Quality Engineering, Program Management and Editorial functions.
• Delivered high quality new consumer products like Newsbeat (newsbeat.me). Created a highly scalable backend data ingestion and processing platform and recommendation engines that’s capable of streaming the best of print and online news, personalised based on user interests, from hundreds of sources and thousands of stories every day.
• Re-launched modernised versions of consumer products like Zap2It.com, WGNAmerica.com.
• Led the technical and product due diligence for a number of M&A activities related to the entertainment meta-data business of TDV that helped the company to grow their Asia business in-organically.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2013 · 9 yrs

• Director of engineering for Yahoo!'s Search and Marketplace group in Bangalore. The team built common global platform (backend and front end) for Yahoo!'s commerce/listing properties (Shopping, Deals, Travel, Autos, Real Estate) for processing, storing, sharing and retrieving the structured data. The system processed few hundred millions of listings data (like shopping product, used car, restaurant, homes etc.) every week through the pipeline. These properties generate 120 M + revenue for Yahoo!.
• Engineering director of the “Yahoo Superstar” award winning team that created Y! Media’s first hosted multi-tenant platform called “Helium” which launched several products in entertainment space (Y! Lifestyle, Y! Entertainment etc.) across 15 countries.
• Driving customer focused innovation, providing technology vision and architectural guidance, and creating ‘start up like’ environment were key focus areas in this role. Deep collaboration with cross-functional teams, like Product Management, Sales & Marketing and Revenue teams, were another key aspects.
• Managed Emerging Markets Central Engineering team and built an array of flagship social/ community products/platforms (part of Yahoo!’s Platform team) like Pulse, Profiles, Finance Message Boards, Polls, Personalised Alerts and User Generated Content Search.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

• Head started the Product Development Division of Sumtotal's Offshore development center in Hyderabad. Managed Web Services and Technology Infrastructure Team of LMS product suite.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2002 · 4 yrs