Rajiv Jha

VP of Engineering

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India19 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 18+ years in software product development
  • Expert in building large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong advocate for team culture and innovation
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in SaaS and Fintech with a strong focus on cloud-native architectures.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team LeadershipDigital TransformationJavaProduct Development

Other Skills

AWS servicesAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAlgorithm DesignAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache SparkApache Spark StreamingBack-End Web DevelopmentBig DataBig data processingCassandraCloud ComputingCouchbaseData Structures

About

Technical Leader and high performer with 18+ years of software product development experience including 7+ years of people management experience managing a team of managers and architects driving company wide technical and strategic leadership initiatives like data localisation for India card members, enforcing framework adoption, building and increasing adoption of large scale platform products to company wide enterprise community promoting reuse and time to market, driving innovation through ideathons/roadshows, setting up and scaling product development teams at offshore GCC from ground up for multiple reputed software firms under several business domains (e-commerce/retail, fintech, enterprise platform products), product roadmap planning, shipping critical, modern and strategic products to production with operational excellence, best fit architecture, optimal budget on-time. Technology exposure includes handling Multi region Multi DC operations, Java backend with large scale distributed systems, system design and architecture, micro-services with event driven architecture, Spark for Big Data processing, Various nosql data stores, Building GenAI applications via massive code scans for effective tech governance, AWS and on-premise private cloud, caches, application UI with ReactJs, messaging brokers and building containerized cloud native environment platform frameworks/services for the cross cutting concern of the organization. Strong believer of GPTW benchmarks, diversity & inclusion, employee engagements, encouraging innovation, volunteering across company, R&R and building overall great team culture and fun workplace. Current Role: (Engineering Director) :- Tech/People/Process/Delivery Leader/Architect Managing Managers and engineers at Amex under Enterprise Architecture department under CTO Organization handling planning, development and operations of enterprise framework products and driving company wide architecture initiatives.

Experience

American express

Engineering Director

May 2019Present · 6 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Provided strategic leadership for multiple large-scale platform and framework teams, enhancing product delivery and operational efficiency.
  • Spearheaded the development of Big Data frameworks, achieving real-time compliance audits and modern ETL solutions using Apache Spark.
  • Fostered a high-performing team culture, mentoring members to drive career growth and improve engagement with our products.
Team LeadershipDigital TransformationManagementdockerDatabasesCloud Computing+27

Tesco

Software Development Manager

Nov 2017Apr 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Role: Software Development Manager
  • Team: Customer Order
  • Domain: Retail/e-commerce
  • Product: Order Lifecycle Service
  • Focus Area: Build large/web scale multichannel event driven micro services for customer order domain from scratch and manage the lifecycle of order by interacting with front end upstream and downstream services in the ecosystem like fullfilment, payment inventory, product etc..Provide sophisticated APIs for customer order domain to track real time state of the order.
  • Tech Stack: Java 8/9, Java RX, Apache kafka, Couchbase, redis, spring boot 2, AWS services, spring reactive API, elastic search, Docker, Vertx, kubernetes
  • Responsibilities: Requirement analysis, participating in architecture, helping team members in doing design, doing code reviews, improving KPIs of distributed, highly available, scalable and failure tolerant, low latency and high throughout application, work on cost optimal deployment and release planning, driving scrum and follow ups. Remain updated with latest tech patterns, frameworks, architecture and learning from within or outside of the company. Hire, build, lead and mentor the technical team based on Tesco’s values and implementing inclusive, cohesive and performance based environment in the team. Manage Project’s engineering release cycle with all the stakeholders product, program, customers and vendors ,resolving conflict and bottlenecks, aligning the team to the larger goal of product, program and the overall company, Resource planning, managing career growth of the team members. etc..
  • What we solve for: Bringing digital transformation by modernizing the Order Management Systems for every channel Website/Till/Mobile App using latest tech principles and deprecating the old systems simultaneously. Unify the shopping experience across the online and store journey of tesco customers using the new age microservices.
  • Project Impact:- Scan Pay Go Initiative by Tesco. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44654797
Team LeadershipDigital TransformationManagementdockerDatabasesCloud Computing+24

Intuit

Staff Software Engineer

Oct 2015Sep 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Role: Lead/Architect
  • Team : Identity team
  • Domain : IAM, security protocol
  • Product: Authorization Service
  • Focus: Develop and maintain one of the most critical shared services of the company without which customers of entire Intuit company's product customers cannot login/ stay logged in/single sign on to use other product and services. Maintain highest standard of SLAs for Token service for the customers/platform consumers, Monitor active-active setup across multiple data centers and supports throughput of the order of several hundreds of tps.
  • Tech stack: Java, Spring, Rest Easy, hibernate, Spring Data, JPA, Google guava, Event Bus, Java Rx, Tomcat
  • Responsibilities: Worked as a hands on technical leader for Identity platform team of CTO Dev group at Intuit. Owning and driving the design, coding/development, architecture decisions in the service, applying security policies for them and coding the API implementation of various standard authorization security protocols like OAuth1, OAuth2 , OpenID Connect etc as per their specification followed worldwide. Apart from this , my other responsibilities in this lead role involves hiring for engineering, mentoring juniors, doing code reviews, refactoring the existing code for various reasons, answering customer issues related to the service, and doing end to end product release of the services in various
  • What we solve for: Providing standard Authorization service as a shared service for the organization to facilitate A2A interaction among the products and services without them worrying about login/logout concerns and managing session based on preconfigured policies following industry standard protocols.
Team LeadershipDatabasesCloud ComputingIT OperationsData StructuresOutsourcing+12

Myntra jabong

SDE III

Jul 2015Oct 2015 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Domain:- e-commerce
  • Part of e-commerce platform and jabong payment service team.
DatabasesJavaElasticSearchProduct DevelopmentSoftware as a Service (SaaS)springboot+3

Adobe

Computer Scientist

Sep 2012Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Role: Lead Developer
  • Team: Adobe Lifecycle
  • Domain:- Business process automation product on Document and Forms platform
  • Product: Adobe Lifecycle
  • Technical responsibilities:
  • Server side development/maintainence of Adobe Livecycle ES4 server product.
  • Ownership of Adobe livecycle workbench -An eclipse equinox OSGI based plugin product.
  • Involved in scratch design/development of happening Adobe Marketing Cloud productline.
  • Tech Stack: JAVA,SCALA,Maven,JCR,CQ,C++,WEB SERVICES,SOAP,OSGI,HTML5,IPC,Socket Programming,jshint, antlr, jquery,sling
  • Other responsibilities: Hackathons/Demos/Hiring for Engineering R&D/Mentoring/Feasibility analysis for new products/Responding to Adobe Livecycle/Workbench related queries of customers on various forums.
DatabasesData StructuresOutsourcingJavaProduct DevelopmentAlgorithm Design+3

Oracle

Senior Member of Technical Staff- Server Technology Group-Oracle UCM

Mar 2011Oct 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Content management:-
  • Product development for Oracle UCM/Stellent (A SOA compilant content management solution from oracle) in the Fusion Middleware stack.
DatabasesJavaProduct DevelopmentSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Programming

Gt nexus

Sr Software Engineer

Apr 2010Mar 2011 · 11 mos

  • Supply Chain:-
  • s/w product development and design of global trading suites in cloud infrastructure.
DatabasesJavaProduct DevelopmentSoftware as a Service (SaaS)SQLSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)+1

Sterling commerce an at&t company

Software Engineer

Jul 2007Apr 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Supply Chain:-
  • Into core s/w product development and design of many supply chain products.
DatabasesJavaProduct DevelopmentSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Programming

Ibm global service (i) private limited

Associate Software Developer

Jun 2006Jun 2007 · 1 yr · Bangalore

  • AT&T Order management system
JavaSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Programming

Education

Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Computer Science

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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