Vikram Singh

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 7 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led MLOps platform for LinkedIn's AI organization.
Built scalable data solutions at MakeMyTrip.
Developed big data analytics platforms from scratch.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with extensive experience in SaaS and Data Engineering.

Contact

vikram.recdgp@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

MlopsEngineering ManagementTeam LeadershipData EngineeringData ManagementBig Data AnalyticsTechnical LeadershipBig DataAwsHadoopWeb Development

Other Skills

Amazon RedshiftAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache SparkApplied SciencesData QualityData ScienceDistributed SystemsExecutive LeadershipFlumeFunctional ProgrammingGraph DatabasesHBaseHibernateJava

About

Interest: Drive business impact by Identifying and solving problems with technology and data. Hands on technology leader with extensive experience in data engineering, data science and distributed systems. Passionate about building elegant products that exceed customer expectations. Build and nurture motivated teams. Summary: I have helped build scalable backend systems, data platforms, ML platforms and AI solutions. Experience in building systems and teams from scratch. Strong ownership and customer focused. In my current assignment at Linkedin I am currently leading a team (MLOps platform) which is part of wider AI platform org responsible for providing platforms and services for training and serving thousands of models for Linkedin. MLOps platform identifies data and model performance issues during model development lifecycle and notifies users with actionable insights to mitigate issues At makemtrip I worked as a manager/architect. We built data based solutions (models and platforms) on MMT's vast amount of travel and behavioral data. Also I have been associated with early and midstage stage startups and have learnt valuable experiences on building and scaling teams and business

Experience

Paypal

Senior Engineering Manager

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Engineering Manager

Feb 2021 – Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Drove MLOPs charter (Health Assurance team) for Linkedin's AI org from Bangalore
Hired, coached and grew the team. Collaborated with cross functional and cross geography partner and customer teams to create roadmap, new projects and managed execution
Delivered impact through multiple org level initiatives

Software ArchitectureEngineering ManagementDistributed SystemsLeadershipMLOps

Makemytrip.com

Associate Director

Mar 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Set up ML engineering team and mentored them
Feature Store: Bedrock of data science team. Source of all training and prediction pipelines for the Data Science team.
Scalable and very extensible Rendezvous architecture implementation for MMT chatbot 'MYRA'
Data Catalog: Data Dictionary of company's all mysql, Hive tables and Kafka topics with search and crawler inbuilt.
Data Quality: Automated detection and notification in case of features going out of bound. Heuristic and statistical checks.
Experimentation Framework: Measure the effectiveness of models in production with different metrics and business reporting.
Customer analysis and modelling for the Fintech vertical.
Backend architecture for MMT Fintech vertical.

Apache KafkaTeam LeadershipDistributed SystemsAmazon Web Services (AWS)MLOpsSpring Boot

Scienaptic systems

Principal Engineer

Feb 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

Joined as First Full Time Engineer to non tech founders at very early stage. Helped build and scale the team to 16 engineers. Was able to attract and retain talents.
Conceived, conceptualized and built big data analytics platform ground up. This is a generic platform for multiple business domains. Platform is capable of executing both data engineering and/or data science workloads. Tech stack include Java/Scala, Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Orientdb, Elastic, MySql. Deployment model being on premise as well as on cloud.
Collaborated with product, sales and customers to help deploy platform to customers

Software ArchitectureTechnical LeadershipPredictive AnalyticsBig Data Analytics

Rightster

Technical Lead

Jan 2014 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

Scala based backend services
Built the AWS based big data platform for reporting, analytics (Batch and Stream)

Big DataApache SparkAmazon Web Services (AWS)ScalaAmazon RedshiftAWS

Netapp

2 roles

MTS

Promoted

Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 · 3 yrs

Core member who developed Netapp's petabyte scale autosupport platform on Hadoop and related technologies ground up.
Scale of data processing was tens of terabytes per week.Scope of work included ingesting data, doing the ETL and loading into ODS and DSS databases.
Built REST api for supportability applications in company.
Technology stack primarily included Hdfs, Hive, Map Reduce, Hbase, Flume, Solr, Pentaho, Oracle db and Datameer.

ProgrammingTechnical LeadershipHadoopFlumeHBase