Narendra D.

Director of Engineering

India13 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of experience in Data Engineering and AI.
  • Led multiple high-impact projects in fintech and healthcare.
  • Expert in building and managing high-performing engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineering and AI expert with extensive experience in Fintech and SaaS.

Contact

im_naren+linkedin@outlook.inLinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipPlatform EngineeringData EngineeringMl Engineering

Other Skills

AI DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsArchitectureAuthenticationBig DataCareer Path PlanningCloud EngineeringCommunicationCross-team CollaborationData GovernanceData PlatformDistributed Systems

About

I am deeply passionate about solving complex challenges and delivering tangible value to businesses and customers. With expertise in Platform Engineering, Data Science, and AI, I thrive on transforming intricate problems into strategic insights and innovative solutions. I have worked across various domains including fintech, healthcare, and e-commerce, spending more than a decade: [+] Designing and developing Data & ML Platforms, Feature Stores, Personalisation Systems, and NLP systems. [+] Building high-performing teams from the ground up. [+] Creating a positive, inclusive, and collaborative team culture that promotes innovation and continuous improvement. I believe, writing good and performant code is just the beginning. True engineering excellence encompasses understanding the business context, fostering team growth, and driving innovation that aligns with organisational goals.

Experience

Razorpay

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Engineering LeadershipEngineering ManagementPlatform Engineering

Engineering Manager

Apr 2022 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs

  • [+] Managing multiple pods in Data Platform and Products.
  • [+] Handles multiple projects simultaneously
  • [+] Data lake for 1.6 Petabytes, 56B+ event ingestion per day, with ~ 10mint latency.
  • [+] Managed and scaled Trino to support 98+ million queries per month,
  • [+] 2+ thousand dashboards and 523K+ thousand financial reports delivered per month
  • [+] Lead the re-architecture of the Merchant Reporting Platform at 74% lesser cost with an overall
  • availability of 99.99%
  • [+] A real-time streaming platform to support merchant-facing applications and dashboards
  • required, to handle 500x traffic surge during IPL
  • [+] Handled Annual and quarterly planning and programs like Developer Productivity, Cost Optimisation and Availability.
Cross-team CollaborationPlatform EngineeringAgile Project ManagementNegotiationData EngineeringEngineering Management+7

Okcredit

Engineering Manager - Data & DevOps

May 2021 – Mar 2022 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • [+] Built and managed pods for Data Platform and ML Engineering.
  • [+] Successfully implemented self-server data Ingestion Layer, ingesting 12B+ events.
  • [+] maintained an overall cost of data engineering of $0.15 per GB
  • [+] Managed and scaled Superset for 50+ analysts
  • [+] Migrated the entire infrastructure from AWS to GCP
  • [+] Managed the projects Infra security setup Firewalls, WAF, and OWASP compliance
Cross-team CollaborationPlatform EngineeringAgile Project ManagementNegotiationEngineering ManagementStakeholder Management+8

Cure.fit

Developer

Mar 2020 – Dec 2020 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • [+] Lead Data Engineering and Analytics team of 9. Contributed to annual and quarterly planning.
  • [+] Optimised the ingestion layer to reduce cost by 60% M-O-M, Optimised Redshift to improve query
  • performance from p90 from 22 minutes to less than 10 minutes.
  • [+] Scaled Metabase to support 80+ analysts, 50k+ adhoc and scheduled queries daily.
Platform EngineeringDistributed SystemsData PlatformTechnical LeadershipData Engineering

Meesho

Lead Software Engineer

Mar 2019 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr · Bangalore

  • [+] Designed and developed the Data Ingestion Platform along with a team of 4 developers,
  • [+] implemented the self-server capability for over 50+ users, 3000+ pipelines and 10000+ Models.
  • [+] The platform was handling 48B+ events daily with a TAT under 1 hour, p75 < 10 minutes.
  • [+] Deployed, managed and optimised presto, hive metastore and Metabase for more than 200+
  • analysts, 80k+ adhoc and scheduled queries per day
Platform EngineeringTechnical ArchitectureDistributed SystemsData PlatformTechnical LeadershipData Engineering

Saturam

3 roles

Solutions Architect

Promoted

Feb 2018 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • [+] Designed and developed Piperr™[https://www.piperr.io/] - AI for Enterprise DataOps from scratch
  • [+] Real-time streaming apps for fraud detection and data enrichment
  • [+] Implemented Recommendation Engine, with four algorithms for travel domain delivering 200K
  • recommendation/day.
  • [+] Built and trained chatbot for booking flight and hotel tickets, with NER for destinations, dates,
  • names and different domain-related keywords
Platform EngineeringAgile Project ManagementData EngineeringStakeholder ManagementTechnical ArchitectureProblem Solving+3

Lead Software Engineer

Mar 2017 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs

Platform EngineeringData PlatformData Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2015 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Platform EngineeringData PlatformData Engineering

Ims health

Software Engineer

Apr 2013 – Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore · On-site

  • [+] Developed a robust Reporting Platform utilising Oracle PLSQL and shell-scripting for Sales, Prescription, and Claims data.
  • [+] Onboarded over 15 SPP clients, enhancing data accessibility and reporting efficiency.
  • [+] Delivered scheduled reports via SFTP, ensuring timely insights for stakeholders.
  • [+] Built multiple Proofs of Concept (POCs) on Hadoop and MapReduce for advanced analytics use cases, driving innovation in data processing.
Platform EngineeringOracle DatabaseAnalytical SkillsCommunicationData EngineeringProblem Solving+2

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Developer

Feb 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked on augmented reality application with uses KINECT camera to reads the gestures and human movement and allow the user to control and access various feature.
Platform EngineeringAnalytical SkillsCommunicationProblem SolvingDistributed SystemsData Platform

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