Surjyakanta Mohapatra

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of ML Platform at Flipkart.
Created in-house analytics platform replacing Adobe Analytics.
Architected Big Data solutions for BingAds.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce expert with strong capabilities in Big Data and Machine Learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Big DataMachine LearningData EngineeringCloud ServicesTeam DevelopmentTelecom Standards

Other Skills

IaaSPaaSKubernetesSparkWeb AnalyticsContainer as a ServiceNetwork ServicesHRMSMentoringInsurance PlatformOLAPETLData VisualizationAnomaly DetectionWiFi Mesh Network

About

Over the 19 years of experience, I have worked in various different domains of Software Industry, e.g. Telecom Domain, Ads Industry, Automated HR Software and eCommerce. I have had experiences working in various tech technology domains and different tech stacks such as Embedded Systems, Big Data Technology and Data Platform, Full Stack Cloud Applications, Cloud Services as Infrastructure and Platform Services, ML Platform etc. I have joined companies and teams at different stages, have moved the needle in a mature setup as well as in a chaotic growth stage start-up, have done well in a remote multi-location team setup or a completely home grown Indian setup. Always eager to learn.

Experience

Flipkart

Director of Engineering

Sep 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked on IaaS, PaaS, and Big Data initiatives.
Lead the Machine Learning Platform through products such as Hosted Jupyter Notebook, ML Training Platform, Realtime and Batch Prediction Services (inferencing) based on Kubernetes and Spark. Contributed to the effort of democratising ML/AI in Flipkart and doing ML at scale.
Lead the in-house from scratch Realtime Web Analytics platform called Euclid which eventually replaced Adobe Analytics/Omniture usage in Flipkart.
Lead the Central Data Engineeering efforts in Flipkart.
Lead the efforts of Container as a Service through usage of Kubernetes as a technology (platform for lifecycle management of stateless and stateful applications, autoscaling, high scale cluster management, spot compute, sky compute). Handle some of the biggest Kubernetes clusters in the industry.
Lead Network Services (Load Balancer, Service Mesh, Network Isolation and Traffic Prioritisation)
Compute and Storage (VM compute engine, Compute storage separation, Network storage, Live Migration of VMs, Capacity Management across Flipkart)

IaaSPaaSBig DataMachine LearningKubernetesSpark+4

Zenefits

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2016 – Aug 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Joined as an early employee in the newly launched Bangalore office of this growth stage Silicon Valley start up.
Zenefits is the pioneer in all-in-one-HRMS SaaS for MSMEs.
As the Senior Most and Early Engineer, helped in hiring, developing and mentoring the team in Bangalore and saw it grow to a 100 member team (full-time engineers, PMs, contract employees as well as office staff).
Engineering Leader for the Benefits Engineering Team (Insurance Platform and aggregator)

HRMSTeam DevelopmentMentoringInsurance Platform

Microsoft

Senior Software Design Engineer

Nov 2011 – Feb 2016 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore Area, India · On-site

Architect for Big Data Platform for BingAds (customers are Data Analysts, Data Scientists and Leadership for business decisions)
Peta-bytes of data processing every day
Developed an OLAP distributed database system and distributed ETL from scratch
Visualizations for time-series, slice-n-dice data
Anomaly detection (using statistical and ML methods), alerting, RCA, A/B etc.

Big DataOLAPETLData VisualizationAnomaly Detection

Samsung electronics

Technical Lead

Jun 2005 – Oct 2011 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

IEEE WiFi Mesh Network Development (802.11, TCP/IP, MAC etc).
Represented Samsung in 3G and 4G standardisation conferences in CT4 forum for telecom standardisations.
Worked with Samsung Mobile development team (Android RIL), worked on world's first commercially available 4G phone as a Tech Lead.

WiFi Mesh NetworkTelecom StandardsAndroid Development