Rakesh Chand

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 10 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Engineering leader with over 10 years of experience.
Expert in building scalable microservices and platforms.
Led multiple engineering verticals in high-growth environments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fullstack Engineer with a strong focus on EdTech and Fintech industries.

Contact

rakesh.chand@pw.live LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

React.jsNext.jsJavascriptAngularAngularjs

Other Skills

Ag-gridAngular Material DesignAngular UniversalAzure DevOpsBootstrapCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Chart.jsD3.jsDesign PatternsExpress.jsFabricJSGoogle Material DesignHTMLInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Jest

About

Engineering Leader with 10+ years of experience building teams, platforms, and scalable microservices. Currently heading multiple engineering verticals at Physics Wallah and previously led engineering functions across fintech and edtech.

Experience

Pw (physicswallah)

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

SDE4/Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

SDE3

Dec 2022 – Mar 2023 · 3 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

Interview kickstart

Frontend Lead, Student Experience

Jan 2022 – Nov 2022 · 10 mos · Remote

Built Global Calendar and Upright from 0–1, powering 20,000+ activities and 5,000+ daily coaching sessions, and designed both for large-scale global expansion. Led creation of IKBase, IK’s first unified component library, a multi-theme system powering consistent UI across product teams.

JestNext.jsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)StorybooksTaildwindCSSReact Query+6

November first ®

Senior Software Engineer

May 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Remote

Delivered high-quality frontend architecture for the international payments platform—building the UI, crafting the design-system UI-kit, and shaping intuitive user experiences end to end.
Boosted engineering velocity by establishing automated TestCafe suites and streamlining build-and-release workflows to enable fast, reliable deployments.

Next.jsSCSSStorybooksNode.jsReact.jsMaterial UI+5

Obsessory

Full Stack Engineer

Jun 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Built from scratch a price-tracking and deals platform, a micro-influencer monetization SPA with tagging + embedded blogger widgets, and a compliance/KYC verification product. Also re-architected Obsessory into a modern Angular SPA, driving major performance and UX improvements.

JavaScriptCascading Style Sheets (CSS)SCSSAngularD3.jsNode.js+8

Uniserved - growth. crowdsourced.

Software Engineer

Apr 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

Built Uniserved’s Field Service Management Portal and Recruitment Portal from scratch using AngularJS, enabling scalable workforce deployment, job assignment, and on-ground operations.
Delivered the front-end foundation that powered Uniserved’s tech-driven field services ecosystem and streamlined talent onboarding for large-scale projects.

jQueryJavaScriptSemantic UICascading Style Sheets (CSS)SCSSBootstrap+4

Intimetec vision soft pvt.ltd

Jr. Software Engineer

Aug 2015 – Mar 2016 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Built a full Presentation Builder tool from scratch in AngularJS for Hewlett-Packard, enabling executives and admins to create and manage polished client presentations.
Gained a strong foundation in the MEAN stack through intensive hands-on training and real project delivery.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Node.jsBootstrapHTMLAngularJSExpress.js+1