Rahul Jain — CTO

Rahul brings over 19 years of experience in architecting and scaling large-scale distributed systems with a single-minded focus: delivering customer delight through reliable, seamless, and memorable digital experiences. A passionate engineer and seasoned leader, Rahul has built high-performing teams from scratch and turned around underperforming ones by instilling a culture grounded in engineering excellence, ownership, and velocity. His approach to leadership emphasizes long-term impact - building platforms that not only scale but create frictionless, engaging experiences that customers remember. He is also a mentor to many engineers and leaders, helping shape talent with the same rigor he applies to platform design-resilient, adaptive, and future-ready. --- 📌 Key Highlights Customer-Centric Scale: Scaled backend systems to handle over 40,000 concurrent real-money gaming sessions-ensuring low-latency, uninterrupted gameplay across hundreds of servers. Product & Platform Leadership: Led cross-functional teams in delivering high-impact technology initiatives across algorithmic trading (equity), e-commerce, gaming, and telecommunications with companies like Bwin, Wipro R&D, Aricent, and Reliance Infosolutions (now Jio Platforms). Entrepreneurial Success (Customer-First DNA): Founded EasyCommute, Hyderabad’s largest shuttle platform, growing from zero to 150,000+ users and $2M in revenue-with no marketing spend, built purely on experience-led adoption and word of mouth. Tech Evangelist & Community Builder: Speaker at 25+ tech events; presented scaling strategies for search systems at Solr/Lucene Revolution (San Diego & Washington DC). Creator of Big Data Hyderabad meetup group (4,500+ members), and a Slideshare contributor with nearly 1 million views. --- References & Links : - Tech Talk @ San Diego: http://bit.ly/36BMIky - Tech Talk @ Washington DC: http://bit.ly/2N81cAN * All opinions shared here are my personal views and do not represent the views of my employer.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in E-commerce and technology innovation with a focus on scalable systems.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 18 yrs 10 mos

Skills

Engineering Management
Product Strategy
Technical Leadership
Software Design
Executive Leadership
Customer Experience
Algorithms

Career Highlights

19 years of experience in large-scale distributed systems.
Founded Hyderabad’s largest shuttle platform with 150,000+ users.
Mentor to engineers and leaders, fostering talent development.

Work Experience

Flipkart

Head of Engineering - Category experiences & New Channels (1 yr 8 mos)

MakeMyTrip

Vice President - Technology Development (2 yrs 1 mo)

Myntra

Head of Finance Engineering (1 yr 9 mos)

EasyCommute

Co-Founder & CEO (4 yrs 6 mos)

Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment

Software Architect (3 yrs 4 mos)

Aricent

Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs 2 mos)

Wipro Technologies

Senior Software Engineer (1 yr 1 mo)

Reliance Industries Limited

Software Engineer (2 yrs 2 mos)

Education

Business Administration and Management at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

BE(Hons) at University of Rajasthan

Rahul Jain

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

19 years of experience in large-scale distributed systems.
Founded Hyderabad’s largest shuttle platform with 150,000+ users.
Mentor to engineers and leaders, fostering talent development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in E-commerce and technology innovation with a focus on scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct StrategyTechnical LeadershipSoftware DesignExecutive LeadershipCustomer ExperienceAlgorithms

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache SparkBig DataCommunicationCore JavaData StructuresDesign PatternsDistributed ArchitectureDistributed SystemsElasticSearchGo (Programming Language)HadoopJavaJava Enterprise Edition

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Experience

Flipkart

Head of Engineering - Category experiences & New Channels

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos

I lead multiple high-impact engineering charters that drive product-led growth and technology innovation across Flipkart’s core and emerging businesses. My focus lies in building scalable platforms, high-performing teams, and engineering systems that redefine commerce for Bharat.
🔹 Video Commerce & Creator-Led Shopping
Spearheading the development of video-first buying experiences, including short-form content, live shopping, and a dedicated Play Content Destination. Scaled adoption from <1% to X% of Flipkart units, building a sustainable flywheel between creators, sellers, and shoppers to drive social and engaging commerce.
🔹 Recommerce & Circular Economy
Driving innovation in Flipkart’s product exchange ecosystem, reverse logistics, and value recovery operations. Led engineering for Flipkart Reset (B2B recommerce app), building a scalable and sustainable recommerce platform that powers customer affordability and environmental responsibility.
🔹 New Business Incubation & Growth Engines
Incubating and scaling emerging lines of business such as:
2-Wheelers/Automotive category with full-stack product and partner-led solutions.
Flipkart for Business, a tailored B2B experience for SMEs, designed to unlock a new revenue stream and deepen market penetration.
🔹 Category Experience Innovation
Elevated end-to-end shopping journeys for key retail verticals such as Fashion (including Spoyl – Flipkart’s fast fashion arm), and Beauty, driving personalization, discovery, and speed at scale.
🔹 GenAI-Powered Commerce Experiences
Building next-gen experiences to assist and influence shopping behavior:
Flippi, Flipkart’s GenAI-powered shopping assistant.
Video Call Shopping Assist, and vernacular enhancements for regional users.

Engineering ManagementProduct StrategyDistributed ArchitectureTechnical LeadershipCommunication

Makemytrip

Vice President - Technology Development

Jun 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

MakeMyTrip (Nasdaq: MMYT) is India’s largest online travel agency, with an approximate valuation of $10B.
Responsible for leading the Hotels supply charter, managing a team of 100+ members across functions including hotel onboarding, UGC, search, analytics, inventory, pricing, and availability - powering ~80K domestic hotels and enabling ~100K room bookings per day.

Software DesignProduct Road MappingTechnical LeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)CommunicationProduct Strategy

Myntra

Head of Finance Engineering

Sep 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

Myntra is India’s leading fashion e-commerce platform - commanding over 40% of the online fashion market.
Led the Finance Engineering team responsible for core financial systems, including seller settlements, platform fees, and accounting services - critical to revenue recognition and compliance at scale.
Tech stack: Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kafka, Hibernate, MySQL, Hadoop, Spark, Presto, Azure HDInsights.

Software DesignProduct Road MappingTechnical LeadershipCommunicationScala

Easycommute

Co-Founder & CEO

Aug 2015 – Feb 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Scaled the platform to 200K+ users and facilitated over 4.5 million rides.
Bootstrapped the business to over $1M in annual revenue, achieving operational profitability through disciplined execution and lean operations.
Established category leadership in Hyderabad's shuttle mobility space, outperforming well-funded competitors with over $30M in capital.

StrategyExecutive LeadershipCustomer Experience

Bwin.party digital entertainment

Software Architect

Apr 2012 – Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Joined Ivy in the Enterprise Architecture and Core Technology team.
Working on building systems that process terabytes of data and handle tens of billions of messages daily, making them near real-time searchable to drive insights and analytics at scale.
🗣️ Presented our work at Solr/Lucene Revolution 2013 in San Diego
Talk title: Building a Near Real-Time Search Engine & Analytics for Logs using Solr
👉 Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/lucenerevolution/building-a-near-real-time-search-engine-analytics-for-logs-using-solr
👉 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgmaQ7aTFaM
🔧 Key Contributions:
Built a load testing metric collection system using JMeter + ActiveMQ across 60+ servers, processing over 1 billion messages/day through non-persistent queues.
Developed a distributed log analysis platform handling 1TB/day from over 100 servers, with real-time log collection and Lucene/Solr-based search, backed by Zookeeper and Tomcat.
Engineered a Kafka-based pipeline for collecting and transporting 1B+ metrics/day from services and applications, with scalable storage built on Cassandra.

Algorithms

Aricent

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2010 – Apr 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Joined the OGS team to work on a patent-granted solution.
Developed the OGS Server for Comviva’s OGS (Online Gaming Server) product, which won the Graham Bell Award in 2011 for "Innovation in Mobile Gaming."
Contributed to several Java-based components for Ortiva’s mVOG and iVOG — video optimization products for mobile and internet platforms.
Reference: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20090215005015/en/Ortiva-Introduces-Mobile-Video-Optimization-Gateway#.VROXmjSUf7c

Wipro technologies

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2009 – Feb 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo

Selected as one of the early member to join Wipro’s Technology Center of Excellence (CoE).
As part of the Telecom CoE, I was entrusted with building the Rating Engine from scratch for Wipro VASplus — a comprehensive end-to-end solution for telecom operators.This product was deployed across multiple operators, including Aircel, and Uninor.

Reliance industries limited

Software Engineer

Nov 2006 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Joined Reliance Infosolutions Pvt. Ltd. (now Jio Platforms Ltd.)
As a fresher, I was inducted into a high-impact team based on demonstrated potential and performance. I contributed to the development of a mission-critical Analytical Decision Support System designed for the top 30 key management executives, including the Chairman and CEO of Reliance Industries.
The system delivered strategic insights across multiple business metrics such as group company turnover, profit & loss, revenue, production costs, employee costs, and expansion data — spanning all of RIL’s production plants and business verticals. At the time, the Reliance Group had a turnover of $20 billion (FY 2007).