Saurabh Arora

CEO

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India23 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Over 20 years of software industry experience.
Expertise in ML platforms and data quality.
Proven track record in building innovative products.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in E-Commerce and ML Engineering with a focus on data-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ml EngineeringE-commerceSearch EngineeringPersonalizationData QualityAnomaly DetectionMl SolutionsWeb ServicesCommerce Architecture

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsArchitectsArchitectural DevelopmentArchitectureBig DataCore JavaDirector levelDistributed SystemsEngineering ManagementGenAIGitJavaJava Enterprise EditionLeadership

About

As a Senior Director at Walmart Global Tech India, I lead multiple teams that work on Personalization and Search Engineering for Walmart's eCommerce site. With over 20 years of experience in the software industry, I have a strong track record of innovating and building new products and teams from scratch, leveraging my expertise in ML platforms, data quality, and anomaly detection. Some greenfield products I have conceptualized and built include ML platforms, Human Annotation Tools, Mobile Product sites, and ML products like Estimate Delivery(eBay India) and real-time Anomaly Detection. These products have improved the velocity of ML experimentation, data quality and consistency, and customer experience for online shoppers. I aim to use cutting-edge technologies and data-driven solutions to build products for customers.

Experience

Walmart global tech india

4 roles

Senior Director

Promoted

Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

I am currently leading Personalization and Search Engineering in India. My portfolio include Search ML Platforms, Search Metrics , and on Customer site Badging, Store Substitutions etc

Distributed SystemsArchitectureDirector levelE-CommerceSenior AdministrationGenAI+1

Director Of Engineering

Apr 2020 – Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos

I currently lead multiple teams in the Domain of both Search and Personalization at Walmart.
In Search, I am responsible for Enhancing the Search ML Experimentation Velocity, Leading a portfolio of products from Human Evaluation to ML Training and Deployment of Models. The team is responsible for improving the Experimentation Velocity for our Data Scientists, building ML training pipelines to Deployment Solutions.
In Personalization, I am leading the engineering for two critical teams. The first team is responsible for uniform badging of the items on all pages on the Walmart eCommerce site. And the second team for Smart Substitution on items as of the Store pickup of products in the Walmart Stores.

Distributed SystemsArchitectureE-CommerceEngineering ManagementSearch EngineeringPersonalization

Senior Manager

Jan 2018 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

I conceptualized and built the Search Data Quality Products improving the Data Quality for Big Data Feedback Pipeline and Real-time Anomaly Detection for Walmart Search. In this role, I was responsible for data Quality, Consistency, etc.
Real-Time Anomaly Detection for Search allowed us to detect anomalies in Search Business Metrics within 15 minutes, aggregating up to 2 million beacons per minute and 4 Billion beacons per day.

Distributed SystemsArchitectureManagement ProfessionalMiddle ManagementData QualityAnomaly Detection

Senior Manager

Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs

I led the Sams Club Search driving Sams Search Engineering and improving the Search Core Engine.

Distributed SystemsArchitectureSearch Engineering

Ebay inc

Senior Architect

Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs · Bangalore Area, India · On-site

I was working on building innovative solution for the local indian market. As the architect for the team, i am responsible for the overall tech stack and architectural changes for the shopping systems.
The key accomplishments are:-
Lead a team which developed the ML based Estimate delivery models for India Market.
Developed the first seller facing web services for India market for shipping intermediation platform: Powership.
Pioneered vertical solutions which include Fashion and Tech Product Browse
Developing POC for Price Analysis Tools for India market.
Launched the Mobile Web for India Market
Upgraded Checkout and Payments systems to support thirty wallets.
Build process and practices around Architectural awareness in the Team
Developed prototypes for competitive pricing tools / adoption of new tech stacks for the team
Mentored number of interns on innovations products.

Distributed SystemsGitArchitectureArchitectsArchitectural DevelopmentML Solutions+1

Yahoo!

Principal Engineer, I

Nov 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

My role involved working as an Tech Lead for Commerce Group at Yahoo. My role included working on Deals and shopping Platform. It involves providing architecture guidelines for the deals Listing platforms, mentoring engineers, and hands on coding on critical foundation pieces/or new initiatives.
Worked on number of new initiatives in the Commerce Group prototyping new products.Also worked on number of Hadoop Tech Stack at Yahoo for feed processing.
Accomplishments
 Design and Development of Grid Solution for Feed Processing.
 Handling Grid workflow Performance and Data Sanity issues
 Conceptual and implement poc for ECoupons product from scratch.

GitCore JavaJavaDistributed SystemsCommerce Architecture

Bea systems

Principal Member Technical Staff

May 2004 – Oct 2010 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

I worked in Webservices and J2ee domain in Weblogic Server. My focus area included webservices, servlet and deployment.
Accomplishments
I was the first employee in the Weblogic Server Team in India.I have been involved in mentoring and training all the other members of the team at the various stages as the team grew in size.
Designed and developed WS-Basic Profile 1.1 compliance for generated Web Services artifacts.
Redesigned JMS-based Webservices to handle multi-threading use cases.
Worked on pinned WS-RM routing.
Developed XMLBeans Data Binding Web Service support.

Git

Novell inc

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2002 – May 2004 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

I have worked on DSML, JLDAP and Uddi server.
DSML and JLDAP is available at http://www.openldap.org/
Uddi Server is available at http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?uddi
Various Task worked on:
Convertion of DSML Response object into JLDAP Object Model.
Implementing the Persistence Search Events and Edirectory Eventing System in JLDAP.
Developed algorithm for adaptive discovery of Schema Validating Parser in Application Server environment and pluggable transport layer in uddi server.
Developed file based Configuration Management of uddi server for open source target release community.
Responsible for Compatibility and Interoperability of Uddi Server with third party uddi clients like uddi4j, .Net clients and Systinet Uddi Clients.
Feasibility Study for supporting of JAXR provider,WS-I Basic Profile,WSDM.
Generating a AspectJ Traceable version of Server for generating trace logs in various deployment scenarios.
Server performance profiling using AspectJ.