Rahul Saxena

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable search and recommendation systems.
Proven leadership in engineering management and team building.
Strong background in machine learning and big data technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on search and personalization technologies.

Contact

rahul1iitkgp@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementInformation RetrievalMachine LearningData Mining

Other Skills

AlgorithmsApache SparkBig DataBig Data AnalyticsCC (Programming Language)C++Conflict ManagementData StructuresDistributed SystemsEclipseJavaJavaScriptLinuxMongoDB

About

Technology enthusiast with interest in building scalable products. Interest areas include search ,machine learning , micro-services architecture and real time web.

Experience

Senior Engineering Manager

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Leading the IRP (information retrieval platform) team in Bengaluru.
Working on core retrieval systems including EBR, feed retrieval, search infra etc to support Linkedin business use cases of search, feed and recommendations for members and customers.
I am hiring for Staff/Senior roles , so if you are interested please reach out.

Engineering Management

Flipkart

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2020 – Sep 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Led Flipkart personalisation charter in search and discovery.
Managed search infra, ranking, data and Autosuggest teams.
Large scale low latency systems for optimisations and personalisation.
Led Big data systems, streaming architecture and information retrieval system design for search

Engineering Manager

Feb 2019 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr

Leading teams and multiple projects within Search@flipkart. If you are interested in solving problems around search quality, personalisation and generative algorithms then drop me a message.

Jiosaavn

4 roles

Vice President

Oct 2018 – Feb 2019 · 4 mos

Worked on multiple cross team projects and transition plan post Jio-Saavn acquisition.
Setup the OKR processes working alongside strategy teams.

Director of Engineering

Promoted

May 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Leading Search, Personalization and discovery. Built products like personalized search, personalized homepage feed, personalized playlists, near real time personalization etc. Implementing ML systems at scale.
PS: AI/DL folks, please reach out to me if you are interested in solving interesting problems content discovery and personalization at scale or distributed system design.

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jun 2015 – May 2016 · 11 mos

Leading the Search and Recommendations team. Working on performance and scalability of the platform.
Mentoring new engineers and looking to hire the best talent.

Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead

Aug 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Search, platform , data mining, algos, recommendations and tools.
Working on exciting technologies like Solr, MongoDB, Amazon EMR/Hadoop/Hive, Mahout,Spark.

Nomura securities

Analyst

Jul 2010 – Jul 2012 · 2 yrs · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Part of FX Options Quant team which worked in areas of capturing,pricing and risk analysis.

University of southern california

Exchange Research Scholar

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos

Summer internship under Prof Milind Tambe in game theoretic approach for security domain .
Worked with applications of Nash and Strong Stackelberg Equilibria for a security application.