Danish C.

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States15 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

16+ years of experience in technology leadership.
Co-founded two successful startups with exits.
Published research in 11 journals and holds 5 patents.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Services expert with extensive experience in technology leadership and engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

EngineeringProduct ManagementCloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentCloud InfrastructureMicroservicesAlgorithm DesignFull Stack EngineeringTeaching

Other Skills

Data ScienceDigital MarketingTeam LeadershipMaps DevelopmentPayments SystemsJavaAWSGCPAzureCloud SolutionsVirtualizationCoachingSearch Engine DevelopmentHuman Computer InteractionComputer Vision

About

16+ years of hands-on experience as a Technology Leader and Entrepreneur. Currently building and scaling Amenify that operates a technology platform facilitating professional Home services in the US, backed by $25M in funding. Have previously built full stack large scale distributed systems at Uber (SF), Cisco Systems (San Jose) and studied MSE at Stanford University, and MSCS at UIUC. Also have experience as a Cofounder with 2 successful startup exits - Yolobus acquired by EaseMyTrip (public company) and Funtoot (eDreams) acquired by Embibe (Reliance). Research work has been published in 11 international and national journals and conferences and is accompanied by 5 patents.

Experience

Forbes technology council

Forbes Technology Council

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Sharing insights on Technology topics with Forbes. An invitation-only organization for successful senior-level technology executives.
https://councils.forbes.com/u/66256111-2f67-49e4-87d0-3f41d16d11a2

Amenify

Co-Founder, CTO / COO

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Amenify has raised $25M to date and operates a technology platform and marketplace facilitating Home services and products - live in all cities in the US.
Currently heading Engineering, Product, Data Science, Operations, and Digital marketing teams at Amenify. Building a reliable, scalable, data driven and secured service platform to power services and products at millions of homes / offices in the US and India.

EngineeringProduct ManagementData ScienceDigital Marketing

Yolobus

Co-Founder, CTO

May 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

Acquired by EaseMyTrip (public company). Venture funded, technology driven, inter city transportation and mobility platform for buses.

Uber

3 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Dec 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

Spearheaded several Engineering efforts in the Maps, Payments, and Cloud infrastructure teams that scaled to meet the demand of 100M+ active Uber users.
Core Maps team - Lead the development and launch of uToll (Tier 1 microservice handling 10K+ QPS, >90% improvement over the legacy system, Tolls UI workbench) to redefine/improve tolls, ETAs (time/distance/route prediction), Upfront/final pricing and map matching.
Bootstrapped and lead India Maps and Payments teams - Launched offline search via in App caching, Basemap evaluation, Local addressing improvements, JioMoney and UPI as new payment methods, Cash-back processing engine and more.
Cloud infrastructure team - Lead the development of a cloud agnostic infrastructure provisioning engine for orchestration, resource / capacity management, monitoring and scaling infrastructure to support lifecycle management of Uber microservices on AWS/GCP/Azure.
1 patent, Uber Bar raiser appreciation (80+ interviews), Uber promotion committee member

Cloud InfrastructureMicroservicesMaps DevelopmentPayments Systems

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2017 – Dec 2017 · 9 mos

Software Engineer

Jun 2016 – Mar 2017 · 9 mos

Cisco

3 roles

Software Engineer III

Promoted

Aug 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Architected and developed Full stack Engineering solutions for Cisco’s Enterprise customers in the cloud and virtualization space.
Got 2 patents, Exceptional employee performance rating (2014), Cisco Hackathon World winner (2013) and Cisco Achievement Program Award winner (2013, 2014)

Full Stack EngineeringCloud SolutionsVirtualization

Software Engineer II

Promoted

Jul 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer - Masters Intern

Jun 2012 – Aug 2012 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Developed a search engine for Cisco's network management suite. Got Exceptional performance rating.

TeachingCoaching

University of illinois at urbana-champaign

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Aug 2011 – May 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Urbana-Champaign Area

Taught various Computer Science courses to the undergraduate students. Among the UIUC "List of teachers ranked excellent".

Funtoot - learning personalized

Co-Founder

Jan 2010 – Dec 2010 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Funtoot (previously eDreams Edusoft) was Acquired by Embibe (Reliance, a public company). A Series-A funded startup that built AI/ML based adaptive learning products for the school students.

Search Engine DevelopmentSoftware Development