Harshdeep Singh Saluja

CTO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India12 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led a team of 30+ engineers in critical projects.
  • Expert in risk management and fraud detection.
  • Proficient in cloud architecture using AWS and Azure.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Fintech and SaaS with a focus on engineering management and risk solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementStrategic ThinkingRisk ManagementSaas Development

Other Skills

AWS LambdaAgile DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesApache KafkaApache SparkBig DataCode ReviewCompliance (GRC)Computer ScienceDatabasesDynamo DBElasticSearchEngineeringGovernanceJenkins

About

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE Have lead a team of 30+ engineers working as a manager as well as an architect to deliver many time critical projects spanning risk/fraud evaluation systems, payment systems, data warehousing solutions, data lake. Some of the salient contributions during my professional stints: - Lead a team of 30+ engineers working as a manager as well as an architect. - Launch new products while driving their PnL from MVP mode to net positive flow. - Responsible for stakeholder management across product, business, ops and execs. - Conduct interviews for all parts of the hiring process: Machine Coding, PS/DS, Design, Hiring Manager. - Conduct workshops with B2B/B2C customers to gather feedback and requirements. - Develop web applications / RESTful web services & event driven services in Java & Python. - Develop & deploy on cloud using AWS & Azure, including security and platform architecture. - Design & setup of data analysis framework on ElasticSearch, HBase & Apache Spark. - Architect AWS accounts with multiple services with prod, stage and dev VPCs for achieving governance, security, and audit requirements. - Setup REST services including developing & deploying complete Continuous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. - Develop extension to Hadoop Distributed File System for mitigating problems of HotSpots. If you have an opportunity which you think might be relevant to my experience and at the same time challenging enough do add me as a connection or reach me at harshdeep.1899@gmail.com

Experience

Google

Engineering Leader

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Careem

Senior Engineering Manager

Dec 2021Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Hybrid

  • Leading Food merchant initiatives
  • Also lead Pay platformization for external merchants enablement and Bills & Recharge charter.
Performance ManagementEngineeringEngineering ManagementStrategic ThinkingSetting Strategic DirectionSystem Architecture

Phonepe

Engineering Manager

Apr 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Lead efforts around Fraud, Risk and Abuse (FRA) on PhonePe platform including online ML + geo models to detect fraud in realtime.
  • Lead location service stack which helps you locate and augment user info by providing geocoding, reverse geocoding and auto-suggest capabilities.
Performance ManagementSaaS DevelopmentEngineeringEngineering ManagementStrategic ThinkingGovernance+4

Zestmoney

Principal Engineer

Aug 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Managed risk, fraud and data.
  • Improved system performance and evaluation cycles by 50X
EngineeringEngineering ManagementStrategic ThinkingSetting Strategic DirectionSystem ArchitectureRisk Management

Zendrive

Software Engineer

Jan 2016Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

EngineeringMapReduce

Nutanix

Member of Technical Staff

Jan 2015Jan 2016 · 1 yr · Greater Bengaluru Area

Engineering

University of waterloo

Research And Teaching Assistant

Sep 2013Sep 2014 · 1 yr · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Adobe

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2013Jul 2013 · 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Software Engineer

Jun 2011Jan 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • >Development and debugging of web application / services in Java.
  • >Development and Deployment around various AWS services including Elastic Cloud, Storage Services, DynamoDB, Cloud Formation, IAM, Simple Notification Service.
  • >Development of Installer Parser and Digital Signature verifier in Python.
  • >Performance (including Load) analysis of Java web services, along with cost analysis for AWS services.
  • >Undertaken various roles in R&D product development in software release cycles - including software design, software implementation.
Engineering

Education

University of Waterloo

Masters of Mathematics — Computer Science

Jan 2013Jan 2014

Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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