Prasad Paranjape

Director of Engineering

Maharashtra, India14 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Scaled engineering team from 5 to 40 in 4 years.
Architected next-generation hosting and e-commerce platforms.
Led initiatives for brands generating $1.5B in revenue.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Infrastructure expert with a focus on scalable solutions.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentTechnical Assistance

Other Skills

product senseDistributed SystemsTeam ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipProgram ManagementDigital StrategySoftware as a Service (SaaS)Data AnalysisElasticsearchCloud ComputingArchitectural DesignOOPWeb ServicesWeb ApplicationsScalability

About

Building cloud hosting products and intuitive user experiences for MSME markets which scales to 5M+ users and $1.5B in revenue. Scaled team from 5 to 40 focused engineers in 4 years across various teams to deliver value to product, marketing, & customer support problems and initiatives for brands like Bluehost, Hostgator, Bigrock and Resellerclub. Specialities: Scalability, Fault Tolerant, micro services, distributed architecture, Event Driven Architecture, Python, PHP, Node.js, cloud-native, private Cloud Mesos/Openshift, docker, Mentoring, Team Development, Org structuring, Yoga, Mental well being, corporate fitness, engaging presentations, Tech Talks, Leadership Talks, Offbeat Travel suggestions.

Experience

14 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Network solutions

5 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs

0. Leading ~40 Talented Backend, FrontEnd, and FullStack Engineers.
1. Architect next-generation Hosting and e-commerce platforms.
2. Responsible to meet the Engineering and Business Goals QoQ/YoY.
3. Contribute to process improvement for better efficiency of team and customer experience.
4. Technical review of critical projects and services.
5. Helping in creating a culture around learning, knowledge sharing, and experimentation to keep everyone on the edge while helping businesses to take advantage of acquired technology.
6. Drive in Quarterly and half-yearly planning for growth via new product development, cross-sell, upsell, and enhancement in customer experience.
7. I like to read about Team Building, Leadership, and organizational structure for faster & quality delivery.
8. Work with SLT to actualize vision and roadmap in Hosting, Commerce, and experience domains.

product senseDistributed SystemsTeam ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentTechnical Leadership+1

Senior Engineering Manager - Hosting, Experience and Agile Portfolio

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Mar 2023 · 11 mos

0. Leading 35 Talented Backend(PHP, Java, Python), FrontEnd(UI, ReactJs, ReactNative), FullStack Engineers and Agile Program Managers (5 Teams).
9 direct reports including 4 Managers.
1. Architect next generation technology for Hosting and ecommerce platforms.
2. Responsible to meet to the Engineering and business Goals.
3. Contribute to process improvement by setting standards and processes for better efficiency of team and customer experience.
4. Technical review of critical projects and services.
5. Active member of squad of leads to set organisation wide standard in coding, infra and processes.
6. Helping in creating culture around learning and knowledge sharing to keep everyone on the edge while helping business to take advantage of acquired technology.
7. Participate in Quarterly and half yearly planning for growth via new product development, upsell and enhancement in customer experience.
8. I like to read about Team Building, Leadership and organisation structure for faster & quality delivery.
9. Work with SLT to actualise vision and roadmap in Hosting, Commerce and experience domains.

Technical AssistanceDistributed SystemsCross-functional Team LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentDigital StrategyProgram Management+2

Engineering Manager - Hosting and Experience

May 2021 – Apr 2022 · 11 mos

0. Leading 32 Talented Backend(PHP, Java, Python), FrontEnd(React), FullStack and Mobile App Engineers (4 Teams).
16 direct reports including 2 Project Leads.
1. Architect next generation technology for platforms.
2. Responsible to meet to the Engineering Goals.
3. Contribute to process improvement by setting standards and processes for better efficiency of team.
4. Technical review of major and important projects.
5. Active member of squad of leads to set organisation wide standard in coding, infra and processes.
6. Helping in creating culture around learning and knowledge sharing to keep everyone on the edge while helping business to take advantage of acquired technology.
7. Participate in Quarterly and half yearly planning for customer facing properties and mobile app.
8. I like to read about Team Building, Leadership and organisation structure for faster& quality delivery.

Distributed SystemsSoftware Development

Senior Project Lead - Experience (NewFold Digital)

May 2020 – Apr 2021 · 11 mos

0. Leading 18 Talented Backend, FullStack and Mobile App Engineers (3 Teams)
1. Architect next generation technology for platforms.
2. Responsible to meet to the Engineering Goals.
3. Contribute to process improvement by setting standards and processes for better efficiency of team.
4. Technical review of major and important projects.
5. Active member of squad of leads to set organisation wide standard in coding, infra and processes.
6. Scalable, Fault Tolerant, Distributed Systems on private cloud (Mesos, Openshift, docker, kubernetes) and public cloud using AWS, Google cloud.
7. Helping in creating culture around learning and knowledge sharing to keep everyone on the edge while helping business to take advantage of acquired technology.
8. Technical implementation and maintenance of compliance schemes like PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA.
9. Participate in Quarterly and half yearly planning for customer facing properties and mobile app.
10. I like to read about Team Building, Leadership and organisation structure for faster& quality delivery.

Distributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentElasticsearch

Project Lead (newfold digital)

May 2019 – Apr 2020 · 11 mos

0. Leading 15 Talented Backend, FullStack and Frontend Engineers(2 Teams)
1. Architect next generation technology for platforms.
2. Responsible to meet to the Engineering Goals.
3. Contribute to process improvement by setting standards and processes for better efficiency of team.
4. Technical review of major and important projects.
5. Active member of squad of leads to set organisation wide standard in coding, infra and processes.
6. Scalable, Fault Tolerant, Distributed Systems on private cloud (Mesos, Openshift, docker, kubernetes) and public cloud using AWS, Google cloud.
7. Helping in creating culture around learning and knowledge sharing to keep everyone on the edge while helping business to take advantage of acquired technology.
8. Technical implementation and maintenance of compliance schemes like PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA.
9. Participate in Quarterly and half yearly planning for customer facing properties and mobile app.
10. I like to read about Team Building, Leadership and organisation structure for faster& quality delivery.

Distributed SystemsSoftware Development

Directi

2 roles

Lead Software Engineer (NewFold Digital)

Promoted

May 2018 – Apr 2019 · 11 mos

1. Architect private cloud using Docker, MESOS and OpenShift.
2. Cloud Native technical approach.
3. TDD and BDD style of development while following agile.
4. Active member of team to define Guidelines for Software Development, Code Review, Container based applications and other best practices for REST, Event Sourcing etc.
5. Convert Business Requirement to Technical Requirement with focus on solving problem in scalable and maintainable way.
6. Aim to keep knowledge flowing and knowledge exchange in entire organisation.
7. Promote usage of tools and techniques to save time and effort of team and business for day to day activities.
8. Technical implementation and maintenance of compliance schemes like PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA.

Distributed SystemsSoftware Development

Senior Software Engineer (Newfold Digital)

Jun 2015 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos

1. Developing smart solutions for domain and hosting partners.
3. Developing high performance solutions in PHP, Node.Js.
3. Problem solving, helping and having discussion with peer so that we can stay on right track and develop truly scalable and optimized solutions.
4. Improving PHP platform performance by deploying best coding practices and caching mechanisms.
5. Analysis and performance review of platform and optimizing the delivery using best practices.
6. Build and maintain high performance REST API.
7. Build and maintain scalable storage layer consisting of SQL/No-SQL servers.
8. TDD, BDD and DDD.
9. Design and implementation of Event Driven architecture using GEARMAN, ZQ, ActiveMQ etc.
10. SOCKET programming : Browser to server and server to server.
11. Private cloud setup using Mesos, Openshit, Docker, Kubernetis.
12. MySql and MongoDB cluster for serving millions of transactions.
13. Extensive use of Design patterns, Dependency Injection, Event Sourcing and testable code.
14. Technical implementation and maintenance of compliance schemes like PCI DSS

Distributed SystemsSoftware Development

Gympp (plus technologies pvt. ltd.)

Co-Founder & CTO

Jan 2015 – Dec 2019 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Distributed SystemsSoftware Development

Quinstreet

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2014 – Jun 2015 · 11 mos · Pune Area, India

1. Developing scalable mobile solutions.
2. Developing solutions for to extend Quinstreet Technologies for Partners.
3. Developing solutions in javascript technologies like Backbone.js, Node.js.
4. Developing solutions by extending frameworks like Laravel, Zend, Symfony, codeignitor etc.
5. Problem solving, helping and having discussion with peer so that we can stay on right track and develop truly scalable and optimized solutions.
6. Improving PHP platform performance by deploying best coding practices and caching mechanisms.
7. Implementing SQUID front end proxy and analyzing its behaviour for multivariate testing.

Distributed SystemsSoftware Development

Software Engineer

May 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune Area, India

Performance, speed and accurate content is all I prefer now. Diving in to the world of search engines, SEO, mobile site development, responsive sites and lots more to rank sites high and deliver good, useful content to user and also make search engines happy.

Software Development

Persistent systems

Software Engineer

Sep 2011 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos · Goa

Working in PHP LAMP stack.
Love to work on new technologies and explore existing libraries.
Scaling a website for millions of users is what I focus on. Integrating opensource solutions in our product and still keeping the desired speed is are the main responsibilities.

Software DevelopmentElasticsearch