Pushp Raj Saurabh

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded Knudge.me, scaling to 5M+ users.
  • Led engineering initiatives at PhonePe for Merchant Lending.
  • Designed microservices architecture for YeLo.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and EdTech expert with strong backend engineering skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Stakeholder ManagementLeadershipTeam BuildingStrategic Planning

Other Skills

ASP.NETAmazon Web Services (AWS)Architectural DesignC#Cross-functional CollaborationsDjangoElasticsearchEmbedded SystemsExpress.jsJavaLinuxMS SQL ServerMatlabMicroservicesMongoDB

About

Co-founded and scaled Knudge.me to 5M+ users globally and an ARR of $200k. 12+ years of experience designing, building and scaling high growth consumer products. Loves to read about technology and product trends.

Experience

Phonepe

Engineering Manager

Oct 2022Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Led the 0 to 1 journey for Lending at PhonePe.
  • Currently driving Engineering initiatives across Merchant Lending, Risk, & Core Platforms
Stakeholder ManagementTeam BuildingStrategic PlanningCross-functional CollaborationsArchitectural DesignLeadership

Logiqids

VP of Engineering

Nov 2020Oct 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • An ed-tech platform used by 500k+ kids across the globe to build strong fundamentals in logic, math and science.
  • Led the team of Engineers and worked closely with the Business, Product and Design teams to grow the following products:
  • LogIQids(brain-training platform for kids)- Provided technical solutions and managed complexities to scale LogIQids from 100K to 500K users
  • LQLive(gamified live learning platform for logic, math and science)- Worked closely with the core team to ideate the platform and unlock the 0 to 1 journey for LQLive. Designed the architecture and led the development of the platform to make it launch-ready only within a span of 3 months.
  • LQ Olympiad- Improved the scalability of the platform to conduct one of the largest proctored Mental Aptitude Olympiads with 50k+ participants.
  • Technologies used: Python, Django, ReactJS, Next.js, React Native, Redis, MySQL, Websockets, RTC Services(Agora, Tokbox)
Stakeholder ManagementTeam BuildingStrategic PlanningCross-functional CollaborationsPythonDjango+7

येlo (0.5bn finhealth private limited)

Principal Engineer

Aug 2019Feb 2020 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • YeLo is a Neo bank for the mass market in India. It has been backed by marquee investors like Matrix Partners and Omidyar Network.
  • With features like digital Savings Account, Credits, Payments, Remittances etc., YeLo primarily targets the blue and grey-collar workforce.
  • Redesigned the existing monolithic system into a domain-driven microservices architecture using orchestration-based sagas.
  • Led a team of 20 engineers to develop the new architecture, which was extremely modular and could integrate with multiple banks and 3rd party providers.
  • Helped expand the tech team from 3 to 20 members.
  • Technologies used: Node.js(Express), Java, PostgreSQL, Redis, Android, React, AWS ECS, AWS Fargate, Docker, Zeebe(Workflow Engine for microservices architecture), Jenkins
Team Building

Knudge.me

Co Founder

Feb 2016Sep 2020 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • A micro-learning platform used by 5M+ learners across the globe to help people improve their English skills. Our pedagogy cuts across verticals and attracts English enthusiasts apart from the exam aspirants(IELTS, TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, CAT etc.)
  • Accreditations - Google Play Best of 2017, Editor's Choice App, IAN/Axilor Funded
  • Designed, developed and scaled the backend of Knudge to sustain millions of users, 10M+ background jobs/day and a peak DAU of 100k+
  • Hired and nurtured 10+ Engineers and demonstrated cross-functional leadership.
  • Raised the seed round from marquee investors, generated gross revenue of $400k+, exited the test prep vertical to a Sequoia-funded company
Team BuildingStrategic Planning

Tinyowl

Back End Engineer

Jan 2015Jan 2016 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

  • Led the backend team of TinyOwl Business App:
  • Took an initiative to automate order fulfilment process and hence individually designed the backend of TinyOwl Business app.
  • This real time application is used by the restaurants to manage the orders placed through TinyOwl consumer app as well as to manage their status on TinyOwl consumer app.
  • The application is smart enough to eliminate the requirement of any Customer Support in order fulfilment process.
  • Backend of TinyOwl Consumer App:
  • Contributed in optimising the post order flow at backend. It involves storage and processing of orders and all kinds of user communications.
  • Developed features which help optimize operations by reducing manual interventions.
  • Developed the scheduled ordering support in TinyOwl app.
  • Microservices:
  • Contributed in breaking the monolithic Ruby on Rails application into Microservices. These individual services hold single responsibility and communicate with other using RESTful APIs and Message Queuing Protocols.
  • Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Firebase, RabbitMQ
Ruby on RailsPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisRabbitMQ

Indus valley partners

Software Engineer

Jul 2013Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Founded in year 2000, Indus Valley Partners includes 20 of the top 50 Hedge Funds among its clientele and $700 bn, representing over 25% of the global hedge fund AUM, is managed by IVP.
  • At IVP I have developed modular and flexible Portfolio management system for alternative asset managers which can be tailored to the specific requirement of any individual client's portfolio management process. Worked with a leading US based hedge fund for 1.5 years to provide them following features in Polaris Integrated Data Warehouse:
  • Independently designed and developed the Internal rate of Returns(IRR) Calculation Engine for the client.
  • Counterparty Exposure Analysis.
  • External Fund Exposure analysis based on Sector, Strategy etc.
  • PnL Analysis of Portfolios.
  • Technologies used: ASP.NET, C#, MS SQL Server, SSRS, JavaScript
ASP.NETC#MS SQL Server

Education

Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

B.E — Electronics and Communication

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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