Rajesh Kumar — Director of Engineering
A hands on visionary Technology Leader and an Innovator with over two decades of experience in building various high scale products and frameworks from ground up leading an organization of up to 75 engineers. Created huge impact on the organizations in terms of overall application development strategy by bringing in a paradigm shift in the app development. Repeatedly achieved latency and scale improvements by up to 300%. Envisioned and drove an entire ecosystem of a product independent development platform with a new specification, core library, SDK, tools and testing infrastructure. Ramped up and hired a large team from one to 60 that included engineers, development managers and program managers. Directly managed a large team of high performing engineers. Known for setting the highest standard for the team and accomplishing them by empowering and guiding them. Retained and groomed couple of generations of senior engineers and managers. Extensive experience in assessing performance of individuals and growth areas. Quick learner and high performer across domain and products at companies like Amazon (Kindle, Instant Video, Payments), Juniper Networks and Wipro Technologies. Leadership Specialties: Technical leadership, Managing a large team, Hiring a high bar team, Performance Management, Planning, Agile Technical Specialties: Architecture and design of High Scale and low latency applications - Services and clients, Java with J2EE, Javascript, XML, Security, JSON, NoSQL data stores, Caching - Client and Server, Android, Client Applications for Smart TVs, set top boxes, gaming consoles, Agile, Building platforms and SDK Industry Expertise: Retail, Video on Demand, Payments, Network Management, Automotive
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technology Leader with expertise in building scalable applications across various industries.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 20 yrs 4 mos
Career Highlights
- Led a team of 75 engineers to success.
- Achieved latency improvements of up to 300%.
- Built high-scale products and frameworks from scratch.
Work Experience
DataFlow Group
Director (1 yr 5 mos)
Consulting Software Architect & Advisor (11 mos)
Rajkoh Tech Consultants
Director - Technology and Leadership Consulting (4 yrs)
PasarPolis Indonesia
Chief Technology Officer (1 yr 4 mos)
Amazon
Software Development Manager (4 yrs 5 mos)
Expedia, Inc.
Senior Software Development Manager (9 mos)
MakeMyTrip.com
Director - Technology, Mobile, 'Common Platform and Services', PWA (10 mos)
Amazon
Manager - Software Development III (2 yrs 4 mos)
Software Development Engineer (1 yr 8 mos)
Software Development Engineer (1 yr 4 mos)
Juniper Networks
Member Technical Staff - Level 4 (3 yrs 3 mos)
LogicaCMG
IT Consultant (0 mo)
Wipro Technologies
Design Consultant (2 yrs)
Education
Bachelor of Engineering at Marine Engineering and research Institute, Kolkata
High School (Class XII) at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Bokaro Steel City