Ajay Kumar Ranjan

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in leading scalable software development.
  • Expertise in payments and e-commerce solutions.
  • Strong leadership in building and mentoring engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce technology leader with extensive experience in software development and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

PaymentsEngineering ManagementProduct DevelopmentSoftware StrategySoftware DevelopmentBusiness StrategyPayment Gateway IntegrationSystem Scalability

Other Skills

Software ArchitectureTeam ManagementData AnalysisProduct ManagementCustomer GrowthJavaPHPIntegrationBanking SystemsAPI DevelopmentSoftware DesignArchitectureQuality AssuranceAgile MethodologiesEnterprise Architecture

About

A Seasoned technology leader, result driven, startup enthusiast, hands-on with both product and technology clinched with entrepreneurial attitude and proven record of leading the design and development of scalable systems and solutions. My core strength lies in my competence of problem solving with greater sense of leadership, ownership, accountability and responsiveness with innovation through technical improvements. Engineered and delivered highly scalable software and products from inception to completion. Passionate about nurturing and mentoring team leveraging hands-on experience in software design and architecture. Specialties: Leadership, Engineering Management, Payments, Execution, Startup, Operations, Driving Technology and Innovation.

Experience

Browserstack

Director of Engineering

May 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Flipkart

Senior Engineering Manager

May 2020Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Building critical pillars - Simplicity, Security & Speed in a customer-focused best in class Payments experience.
PaymentsEngineering Management

Traveloka

Engineering Manager

Aug 2018Apr 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Coviam

Vice President - Engineering

Jan 2017Jan 2018 · 1 yr · Greater Bengaluru Area

Styletag

Vice President Technology

Jan 2016Jan 2017 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Responsible for the overall organization's software strategic road-maps, product development and delivery, networking, security and quality assurance.
  • Conceptualised, re-designed and built the scaling architecture for marketplace and promotion engine with decoupled payment application which improved the success rate from 40% to 70%.
  • Created strategies and initiatives for hiring and developed a strong 30 member engineering and product organization.
  • Built and heading product team for consumer-facing product initiatives and took care of the entire product life cycle which includes creating road-maps, data analysis, making funnel improvements to increase conversion rates & growing customer base.
Product DevelopmentSoftware Strategy

Indiaideas.com limited (billdesk)

Technical Architect

Jan 2007Jan 2015 · 8 yrs · Mumbai Area, India

  • Payment Gateway:
  • Involved in building intelligent algorithms which identifies the drop in success rates and automatically routes transaction through another bank's gateway.
  • Integrated Transaction Switch with major banks which ensures consistent transaction delivery
  • Merchant integration plug-ins for implementation on a wide variety of merchant server platforms (Java, PHP).
  • Involved in system scale up vertically and horizontally.
  • Designed and implemented saved card features for both session and without session.
  • Visa Bill Pay (Retail & Corporate):
  • Rolled out bill payment, prepaid recharge platforms for both Visa retail and corporate users involving integration with biller platforms, prepaid recharge platforms and payment gateways.
  • ECS/SI Platforms involving integration with major banks and post-paid services - major telcos, insurance companies, power distribution, gas suppliers etc.
  • Universal Bill Presentment & Payment Platform (UBPP):
  • Bill payment solution to major banks (HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak, Yes Bank) - integration with net banking, single sign-on, customer debit, direct tax
  • Biller Management System integration with bank's existing EBPP systems with BillDesk's merchant platform
  • Directpay:
  • Design and development of bill payment & Prepaid Recharge APIs for the leading banks's ATM & Mobile, retail channel partners.
  • Worked and executed with the functionalities and structure of various ATM switches like BASE24, FIS, Opus, Citibank and built solution for the debit and credit card transactions using these switches.
  • Tax Payment:
  • Direct and Indirect taxes payment platform with complete solutioning of Challan generation, reconciliation, settlement etc.
  • ETopUp:
  • Conceptualized, designed and developed prepaid recharge platform facilitating services to several channels -- Bank Instapay, Netbanking, ATM, Mobile, Retail Channel Partners.
Payment Gateway IntegrationSystem Scalability

Globester.com

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2006Jan 2007 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Responsible for design, Architecture & delivery of a scalable travel search engine using Amadeus and Galileo Global Distribution Systems Fares (GDS).
  • Set up process for Quality Assurance, Program Management and Support/Operations. Worked closely with team on various phases like requirement analysis, planning, estimation, execution and delivery.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Engineering

Jan 2002Jan 2006

Sainik School Tiliaya

Jan 1996Jan 2002

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