Saurabh Asthana

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 15 years of experience in consumer internet products.
  • Expert in building and scaling complex products.
  • Proven track record in engineering leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce expert with strong engineering leadership in high-scale environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipSystems DesignDistributed Systems

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AndroidAndroid DevelopmentArchitectureCloud-Native ArchitectureCore JavaCross-functional Team LeadershipData StructuresEclipseElasticSearchGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)JavaJava Enterprise EditionLeadership

About

15 years of experience building consumer internet products at scale. Extensive experience working in hyper growth environments, building and scaling complex products & building high caliber R&D teams. Key skills: Engineering leadership and management, System Design and Architecture, Tech and Product strategy, Distributed Systems, Cloud Native Architecture.

Experience

Google

Software Engineering Manager

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Kingmakers

Senior Engineering Manager

Jul 2022Jun 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Hybrid

  • Spearheading geographically distributed teams (4 locations) building the next generation of payments and wallet systems processing 8 million transactions daily, preparing for 5x growth to support a multi product / brand / country strategy.
Engineering LeadershipSystems DesignArchitectureCross-functional Team LeadershipPeople ManagementTeam Building+3

Flipkart

Engineering Manager

May 2020Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Journey started with building zero to one systems for Flipkart Wholesale Warehouses, very quickly extending to leading Fulfillment orchestration & Shipping engineering teams.
  • In two years, I grew and managed multiple teams ( ~ 25 engineers) focussing on Supply Chain engineering for Flipkart Wholesale, building specialized capabilities for Grocery , scaling 3P categories to accept pan India orders, receiving multiple best team awards in the process.
Engineering LeadershipSystems DesignArchitecturePeople ManagementDistributed SystemsProduct Development

Cleartrip.com

2 roles

Architect / Engineering Leadership

May 2019May 2020 · 1 yr

  • Architected and Managed end to end execution of Cleatrip’s migration from On-Prem to Cloud.
Engineering LeadershipSystems DesignTechnical LeadershipPeople ManagementTechnical VisionDistributed Systems

Principal Engineer

Mar 2018Apr 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Leading Platform engineering focusing on Core Business Services, Payments, Users/Accounts , Communications.
  • Managing a team of highly competent developers and QAs with complete ownership of Cleartrip's Flight B2B products.
Systems DesignDistributed Systems

Careem

Member Of Technical Staff

Feb 2017Mar 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • Worked in Payments and Incentives team, Lead the
  • design of payments as a service, with improved uptime of 99.999% and complete asynchronous processing.
  • Designed and developed upfront pricing service used in car pooling product.
Systems DesignDistributed Systems

Quikr

2 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Apr 2016Jan 2017 · 9 mos

  • As a member of Platform Engineering, Lead the design and development of core business and infra services.
  • Ad Service for providing core Ad lifecycle management features allowing verticals like Cars, RealEstate , Services etc to build more customised experience.
  • User Identity management service , this created the backbone for Authentication with Mobile feature.
  • Event Bus infra service to provide reliable inter service messaging capability.
  • Designed the Quikr Logistics backend with host of services for managing a supply chain fleet with real-time tracking, user order fulfilment which powers Quikr Doorstep in C2C , B2C delivery space.
Systems DesignDistributed Systems

Lead Software Engineer

May 2014Apr 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • As a Lead Engineer , lead the design and development of Quikr Ads Ingestion and Search , Scaled it to a product used by millions of users with near real time experience, 99.999% uptime.
  • Tech Stack : Java , MySQL, Elastic Search, RMQ, Redis
Systems DesignDistributed Systems

Lenskart.com

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2012May 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

  • My responsbilities include:
  • Designing / Developing new features and integrating them with web application.
  • Performance optimization and maintenance of existing features.
  • Constantly innovating to improve the website experience in terms of performance and usability.
  • I worked on LAMP stack, along with J2EE (Spring + Hibernate) and NoSQL (MongoDB)

Airwatch

Software Engineer

Jan 2012Apr 2012 · 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked on developing Android Agent for their Mobile Device Management Suite.
  • Developed the Airwatch Cloud Messaging Client for Android Devices and integrated it with the MDM Agent.
  • Also had the opportunity to work on their secure content delivery application , targeted towards Tablets

Samsung r&d institute india - bangalore private limited

Software Engineer

Apr 2010Jan 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • At Samsung, as a part of their India RnD Centre, I worked in Mobile Communication Team's Regional Android Products Group. I was responsible for developing and maintaining, Android IME and Multimedia framework / applications for South East Asia and U.S market.

Aricent

Trainee Software Engineer

Nov 2009Mar 2010 · 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Joined Aricent as a fresher, was awarded the Best Performer in their Initial Learning Program.

Education

Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering

Engineer’s Degree — Electronics and communication

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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