Prathaban Selvaraj

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs 6 mos experience

AI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in building high-performance engineering teams.
Proven track record in E-Commerce and AI solutions.
Strong leadership in driving innovation and technical excellence.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in E-Commerce and AI-driven solutions with a strong engineering background.

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Skills

Core Skills

E-commerceEngineeringArtificial IntelligenceTeam LeadershipSecurity

Other Skills

AI modelsAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAnalyticsBig DataC++Director levelDistributed SystemsElasticSearchJavaLeadershipManagementMobile ApplicationsNodePHP

About

Leading and providing strategic direction to high-performance teams to deliver quality results. Technically strong. Broad suite of tech skills: Distributed systems, Web apps, Search applications, Analytics systems, Cryptography, Trend detection and personalization systems, Artificial Intelligence. Solid understanding of engineering and business needs in both startups and large companies. Fostering collaboration with diverse stake holders, Driving innovation and technical excellence in sync with business metrics. USP Ability to go end to end in putting together the right team. Exploring, experimenting and building the right tech solution. Delivering reliable processes and providing sales support.

Experience

Google

Serverless Engineering

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Myntra

Director Of Engineering

Aug 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

Leading the cataloguing, competitive intelligence, manufacturing, planning/buying of products and analytics systems in Myntra using the right mix of technology (AI models, large scale distributed systems handling 10 mil rpm), people, processes, innovation and hustle.
Drove yearly and quarterly goals, engineering excellence and innovation charter for all teams.
Stack: Java, MySQL, Redis, Mongo, Kafka, Apache Druid

Director levelE-CommerceEngineering

Streamoid

Director Of Engineering

May 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Streamoid is a leader in providing cutting edge solutions for the fashion retail industry using Artificial Intelligence.
Managed the teams and systems responsible for the on-boarding of clients, delivery of three products (fashion search, outfitter and complementary products), back-end systems like crawlers, internal and external control panels, analytics system (1B+ events per month) and more.
Stack: Python, Java, React, Node, Solr

Quikr india pvt. ltd

Director Of Engineering

Jun 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Head of Engineering for the Services Vertical in Quikr. Built a high performance team that delivered reliably on tight timelines. Handled multiple engineering teams for delivering AtHomeDiva (the beauty product line), Quikr Services Listings and Booking product lines. Built a search experience that handled balanced lead delivery to service providers, an innovative click and talk experience to connect customers to service providers. Integrated multiple acquisitions (people and technology) made by Quikr in the Services vertical like Zapluk, Salosa, StayGlad and now Zimmber.
Technology Stack: Java, PHP, Node, Android, ElasticSearch, RMQ.

Tibcorp

Director Of Engineering

Apr 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Coimbatore Area, India

Setup infrastructure, team and managed a platform for the Payroll vertical.

Kidandparent

Founder

Jul 2009 – Mar 2014 · 4 yrs 8 mos

KidandParent is a startup in the Ed Tech domain. KidandParent focuses its efforts on products in the domain of child growth and development. Core products include CANDY, a browser for kids aged 3-9 years and a very popular parenting portal (www.facebook.com/KidandParent).

Yahoo

Engineering Manager

Jun 2005 – Apr 2009 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Built and managed the Sponsored Search and Login/Registration teams in Bangalore. Built a patented Intelligent Routing system (BGP) to optimize routing of user requests based on various parameters like geographical proximity, availability of peering links etc.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8972326
Stack: C++, PHP

Good technology

Senior Software Engineer - Security

Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 · 3 yrs

Handled application security for the company. Projects handled include
Designed security for a custom UDP-based application protocol.
Designed/implemented a secure channel for an Over-the-air software upgrade
Development of crypto library - ASN.1, PKCS standards. X.509, SSL, Symmetric/Asymmetric crypto algorithms, hashes, H-MACs etc.
FIPS 140-2 certification
Stack: C++