Ajith Kamath

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering for multiple high-impact products at Swiggy.
  • Built India's largest trucking commerce platform at BlackBuck.
  • Developed innovative video distribution systems at ONE.
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About

15+ years of experience in Cloud, Backend technologies and Mobile product development. Currently leading Revenue & Growth vertical at Swiggy as the AVP-Engineering. Leading the engineering for Ads, Pricing, Promotions, Swiggy ONE, CLM, Gamification, Swiggy Operating System (SOS) & Supr Daily Prior to Swiggy, at ONE, I was leading the technology team as the Global Head of Engineering. Building Video Content Distribution systems, Fantasy as a Service and Data Engineering. Before ONE, I was instrumental in building India's largest Trucking Commerce and Freight platform at BlackBuck. FasTag based Tolling, Fuelling, GPS & Telematics Stack & offerings, Freight Marketplace, Payment & Ledger Management, Credit, and Insurance were some product offerings on this platform. Built the team from scratch and ultimately led a team of about 80 people. Joined BlackBuck in its pre-Series A stage as the 3rd engineer and helped build the company to unicorn (Series E) in my span of 5.5 years at BlackBuck.

Experience

Quince

Senior Director of Engineering

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Leading E-commerce Platform, Planning, Platform engineering, Devops & Infra, Security, IT & QA

Swiggy

AVP Engineering

May 2022Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • AVP of Engineering in the Revenue & Growth team
  • Leading the engineering for Ads, Pricing, Promotions, Swiggy ONE, CLM, Gamification, Swiggy Operating System (SOS) & Supr Daily (Insanely Good), Minis & Developer Exp Platform (DXP)

One

Head Of Engineering

Dec 2020May 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Built Video Content Distribution systems (ONE Super app) just like Netflix (Live & VOD content)
  • Built Fantasy as a Service for Martial arts and Esports
  • Built the Data Engineering & Platform Engineering from scratch to analyse 90Mn+ user's data
  • Built ONE Passport - A unified Login & onboarding experience across different D2C products of ONE and Social Media platforms.
  • Responsible for building the overall Org charter, processes, hiring and P&L for Engineering

Blackbuck (zinka logistics solutions pvt. ltd.)

4 roles

Associate Director

Promoted

Oct 2018Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Built India's largest Trucking Commerce platform. Fuelling, FasTag based Tolling, GPS & Telematics Stack & offerings, Payment & Ledger Management, Credit, Insurance were some product offerings on this platform. This is the largest cluster of systems at BlackBuck with high RPM that was built for scale.
  • Loadboard as a platform was also built as a service, managing(acquisition, engagement & retention) the Supply at BlackBuck.
  • Built the team from 5 to 80 people.

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2018Oct 2018 · 7 mos

  • Heading Engineering Verticals for Supply, Managed Service and GreyLink - The Digital Transportation System business units
  • Managing development of all three facets: Backend, Frontend and Mobile.

Engineering Manager

Mar 2016Mar 2018 · 2 yrs

  • Engineering Manager for Mobile Team and Supply Service
  • Managing team of 12 developers across different domains.
  • Responsible for over 6 apps on Supply, Demand, Internal, SaaS apps developed horizontally across different domains
  • Responsible for Supply Engineering Vertical at Blackbuck spanning three domains of Acquisition, Engagement and Retention.

Principal Engineer

Jun 2015Mar 2016 · 9 mos

  • Heading Mobile Division
  • Managing team of over 5 folks & 6 apps across Supply, Demand, Internal domain.

Samsung r&d institute india

Technical Lead

Feb 2010Jun 2015 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Key Tasks & Responsibilities:
  • 1. Commercialized Flagship Galaxy smartphones and other smartphone variants.
  • 2. Led the efforts for creating context aware Quick Connect Module for Samsung's efforts towards Internet of Things (IoT) and Web of Things (WoT).
  • 3. Led Bluetooth Low Energy SDK design and development on Bluez and Broadcom stack.
  • Key Accomplishments:
  • 1. Patent granted for a novel "System and method for transmission of traffic sign board information to vehicles and relevance determination". Patent Grant No: 374200
  • 2. Published IEEE paper: "System and method for transmission of traffic sign board information to vehicles and relevance determination". Link: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7002415
  • 3. Won the Best IEEE paper award in Electronic System Design category at International Conference on Advances in Electronics, Computers and Communications (ICAECC), 2014. 5. Won Quarterly Excellence Award for leading the development of BLE stack and profile and handling of Samsung customers in Q4 2012.
  • 6. My technical paper on "NFC based Unified Health and Pharmaceutical Outlet System" was selected to be presented at WIMA 2012 at Monaco.

Deloitte consulting india pvt ltd.

Business Technology Analyst

Jun 2009Feb 2010 · 8 mos

  • 1. System Builds and Post Installations of various SAP ERP systems.
  • 2. Landscape defect analysis and TMS job monitoring.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

Master of Science (M.S.) — Software Systems

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering Mysore

B.E — Computer Science

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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